Featured Destinations

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?

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.

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....

Divided Town in a United Nation

Ventersdorp was the home-base of the radical Afrikaner leader Eugene Terr’blanche who was murdered in 2010 leading to speculation that South Africa was as racially polarised as ever. However only a couple of months later, the nation would host the football World Cup to world acclaim and prove once again the resilience of its people and the strength of the message of reconciliation preached by Nelson Mandela on his release from jail. Terr’blanche’s AWB (Afrikaner Resistance Movement) has stirred emotions over the years, and Ventersdorp has been at the centre of it.