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Win A Two Night Getaway For Two At The Brenaissance Wine & Stud Estate
Vineyards, plum orchards, luxurious accommodation, and the mountains of Stellenbosch...
Did you just feel the tension in your shoulders ease a little? Did you forget about deadlines and budgets for just a moment as you imagined the crisp sunshine on your fa...
The Best Value Luxury Cape Winelands Accommodation by SA-Venues.com
The Best Value Luxury Cape Winelands Accommodation by SA-Venues.com ~ The Cape Winelands of South Africa need little by way of introduction - the area is one of the most visited parts of the country.
So, it isn’t surprising that the standard of Cape Winelan...
20 Most Incredible Historical Sites in South Africa
Historical Sites in South Africa ~ South Africa's history is young. It doesn't have buildings that date back to the fifteenth century, because back then its beaches were still combed by Strandlopers (the hunter-gatherer San, known as beach combers for their sh...
12 Best Small Towns in the Western Cape
The biggest problem about visiting the Western Cape is having to choose where to visit!
Wonder how many you'll argue we've left off our list of the 12 Best Small Towns in the Western Cape that we know and love. So, we'll quickly add the proviso that the fo...
Head To Stellenbosch For A Downton Abbey Experience
Just as the Crawleys of Downton Abbey (the impressive Highclere Castle in Berkshire, England) decided to open their doors to the public for a day, so too four historical homesteads of Stellenbosch (if on a somewhat less grandiose scale) combine to form the Vil...
The Best Events In Cape Town & Surrounds This Autumn and Winter
Autumn, and early winter, in Cape Town is the city's secret season. It's the time of year the city is at its best – the sun just warm enough to seek out a patch of sun in which to bask, yet a mackintosh is a pre-requisite to surviving the day (brollies, if you...
Top Things To Do In The Winelands That Aren’t About Wine
The traditional Cape Winelands – Franschhoek, Stellenbosch, Paarl, Somerset West – are within a stone's throw of Cape Town. These earliest colonial settlements each come with their own wine route, making it easy to travel from one farm to the next sampling win...
The Most Beautiful Historic Towns In South Africa
South Africa's history is not all that old. The buildings don't date back hundreds and hundreds of years, as they do in Europe, but (and it's a BIG but) South Africa has its own unique architectural styles, much of it evident in little towns across the country...
8 Glorious Gardens That Just Happen To Be On Wine Estates
To explore a garden before, or after, tasting the wine grown on the farm is one of the highlights of these 8 glorious gardens on wine estates...
BABYLONSTOREN
The gardens at Babylonstoren are extensive. Modelled on the former Company Gardens of the Cape (the...
30 Things To Do In The Cape Winelands
The essence of the Cape Winelands is wine tasting.
You will discover, however, that there are so many wine estates jostling for your attention that you need something other than wine estates as your yard stick for selecting which ones to visit.
For this ...
Cape Dutch architecture – 8 best spots to Gawp at Gables
Think Cape Dutch architecture and one immediately calls to mind the style's most distinctive feature: the central gable. But gables are not anything new, you might argue, what's the big deal? – European architecture is full of examples. But at the Cape, gables...
An Afternoon of Bubbly Tasting in Stellenbosch
Whilst I am not a lover of wine, I really enjoy sweet bubbly, so JC Le Roux in Stellenbosch was not a bad spot to head to on a Friday afternoon. The rain which threatened stayed away and we made our way past cold, green farmlands, orchards and tree-lined stre...
Falling for Stellenbosch
While in university, I always envisioned the town of Stellenbosch as a student city where university undergrads partied until the early hours of Thursday morning and stumbled out of the residents for the last lectures of the week. While that part may be true, ...
The Giraffe House
Situated on the roads that split to Stellenbosch and Paarl in the Western Cape, the Giraffe House Wildlife Awareness Centre promises a fun day out for young and old alike. This centre is not only home to its name’s sake, the giraffe, but also to a huge diversi...
Hillcrest Berry Farm – Indulging In Berries And The View
Just about everyone in Cape Town has heard of Hillcrest berries – you can buy the brand in the frozen food section of Pick n Pay, and they probably supply Woolworths and Melissa's too. You'll find Hillcrest Berry Farm on the crest of the hill of Helshoogte Roa...