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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....

A Case of Good Wine

Although common knowledge has it that the Huguenots initiated wine-growing in the Cape, the truth is that a number of Dutch settlers were already making some very quaffable wines by the time they arrived. Simon van der Stel’s Vin de Constance, from Klein Constantia, for example, was a world leader in the 1680s. By 1859 more than four million litres of wine had been exported to Britain from the Cape before the wine industry all but collapsed in 1866 following an outbreak of Phylloxera. The current wine harvest is estimated at 780 million litres per year, making South Africa the world’s eighth largest wine-producing country, just ahead of Australia and behind – with the largest first – Italy, France, China, USA, Spain, Argentina and Chile.