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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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Nine Frontier wars in 100 years

A series of nine wars was waged against the Xhosa between 1779 and 1879 along the Great Fish River which then formed the eastern border of Cape Colony.

The Xhosa allowed themselves to be convinced by the prophet Mlanjeni that they were bulletproof and by Nongqawuse that slaughtering their cattle would drive the white man out off their land.

Funnily enough, neither was right and it fell to Lord Chelmsford summarily to finish off the campaign in 1879 before he headed up to the Colony of Natal, only to be taught a bit of lesson himself at the Battle of Isandlwana.