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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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Ngorongoro Conservation Area

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Ngorongoro Conservation Area

Ngorongoro Conservation Area is located in the Great Rift Valley, a gigantic fracture of the earth's crust, filled with volcanoes, mountains, plains, lakes, forests and archeological sites.....

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Namibia

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Namibia

Bushmen, Damara and Namaqua people have lived in Namibia since early times with significant Bantu incursions occurring from 1300 AD onwards. The first Europeans to set foot on Africa’s south-west coast were Portuguese and included Bartolomeu Dias, but they did not put down any roots. Just crosses.

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A lot of bricks and pipes

Pietermaritzburg (not Durban) is the provincial capital of KwaZulu-Natal, an honour it shared until recently with Ulundi, the once-capital of the former KwaZulu apartheid Bantustan. When the Inkatha Freedom Party lost control of the provincial legislature in 2004, Ulundi lost its capital status. Pietermaritzburg’s City Hall was built in 1893, destroyed in a fire in 1895 and then, with great dedication, rebuilt in 1901. It is an exemplary piece of Victorian architecture, sporting an impressive 47m bell tower, and is the largest red-brick building in the southern hemisphere as well as home to its largest pipe organ. Now you know.