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Friday, 22 August 2008

Catch your Breath in Kalk Bay

Kalk Bay is one of those places where you can finally catch your breath …
This wonderful historic harbour village, en route to Cape Point, has everything you could possibly want from a day out by the sea. Well, everything except warm water. Which is just as well, because you might be less inclined to explore [...]

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Article by: SA Travel News Editor
Wednesday, 13 August 2008

Bayworld Museum Complex

Now known as Bayworld, which means you get to see the Oceanarium, the snake park, and no 7 Castle Hill as part of the same visit, the country’s third oldest museum boasts a 15 metre Southern Right whale skeleton, a life-size reconstruction of the giant dinosaur Algoasaurus (it’s not a recently discovered species, but a [...]

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Article by: SA Travel News Editor
Tuesday, 12 August 2008

Observatory Cape Town (Obz!)

Those visitors hankering for the more eclectic / hectic night-time buzz, should make their way to Observatory in Cape Town, or ‘Obz’, home to the first Royal Observatory and a dazzling array of bars and clubs and restaurants. Unlike Long Street, there’s ‘something of the night’ about Obz, its battered elegance cast into permanent shadow, [...]

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Article by: SA Activities Editor
Monday, 11 August 2008

The Penguins at Boulders Beach

There’s something very peculiar about standing on a sandy shoreline, basking in the South African summer sun while gazing out across the crystal blue waters of the Indian Ocean, only to encounter a group of penguins waddling past your beach towel on their way to having a dip. Well at Boulders Beach, a National Park, [...]

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Article by: SA Travel News Editor
Tuesday, 5 August 2008

Spectacular Stellenbosch

Stellenbosch is one of those unique places in South Africa. Known for its wine production, as well as for the Stellenbosch University, one of the premier tertiary education institutions in Cape Town, Stellenbosch is in a class of its own. Stellenbosch offers many attractions for leisure seekers and tourists. The historical town is also known [...]

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Monday, 4 August 2008

Knysna – South Africa’s favourite holiday destination

Note to self: When next going away on a romantic holiday getaway, make sure you go somewhere without baboons
. Coming back to the tree-top cabin that I had romantically, thoughtfully and spontaneously rented outside Knysna, my girlfriend and I found our food supplies decimated.
Not only eaten, but flung around the room, smeared on the walls [...]

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Article by: SA Travel News Editor