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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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The Source of Denial

Modimolle was called Nylstroom until 2002. Why? Because in the 1860s, a bunch of fractious Voortrekkers, determined to escape the ongoing vexations of the British, had stomped away in search of the Holy Land. To their astonishment, only two hundred and fifty crow-kilometres from home, they stumbled across a mountain in the shape of a pyramid with a stream nearby and flowing northwards. So there it was. Egypt and the Nile. They decided they were close enough to Israel and built a town. Job done.