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Cape Winelands

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Cape Winelands

Two mountain ranges provide a spectacular backdrop to the Cape Winelands, whilst the sea and Cape Town, The Tavern of the Seas, form the front-drop. And what better backdrop to a tavern could there be than one of the world’s prime wine-producing areas?

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Victoria Falls

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Victoria Falls

Probably the world’s best-known waterfall. Made up of five separate falls stretching over 1 700 metres, it is the largest curtain of water in the world, with a drop of between 90 and 107 metres. A spectacular gorge below the falls offers rafting for the brave. Everybody else flies above it in the ever-buzzing helicopters and light aircraft.

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Cape Garden Route & Klein Karoo

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Cape Garden Route & Klein Karoo

The Cape Garden Route is South Africa’s Garden of Eden, a combination of long, deserted beaches and tranquil lagoons, lush green forests and majestic mountain ranges....

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Ain’t no mountain high enough

The highest peak in the Drakensberg range is actually not in KwaZulu-Natal but in neighbouring Lesotho. It is called Thabana Ntlenyana, meaning “beautiful little mountain” and is 3 482 metres high. It has recently been established that Mafadi at 3451m is South Africa’s highest peak and not Injasuthi, “the satisfied dog”, as previously thought. The highest voices in the Drakensberg doubtless belong to boys of the Drakensberg Boys’ Choir School, Africa’s only such school. The Champagne Valley in term-time rings out with tunes varying from African traditional to rollicking spirituals and from Requiems to Andrew Lloyd-Webber