South+Africa travel tips and stories. Vacations ideas, cruises spa and resorts

The famous Robben Island, whose prison was once home to former South African president Nelson Mandela as well as many other black political freedom fighters, is now a World Heritage Site and provides views across the bay with Table Mountain as its backdrop. A journey to the island is an amazing experience offers a glimpse into the life and times of the apartheid era. The island was also used as a leper colony and animal quarantine station. The island is nearby Whale Rock and have been the nemesis of many a ship and its crew. The surf of the open Atlantic Ocean thunders continuously at its margins and any vessel wrecked on the reefs offshore is soon beaten to pieces and disappears. 

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Magaliesberg is a mountain range in South Africa, from Pretoria in the north of the Gauteng Province to a point south of Pilanesberg. So if you are located in South Africa these days, grab your bag, get into the car and just drive? Drive into the country side and relax. Maybe pack a picnic basket, some divine cheese and biscuits, some wine and find a space in the sun where no-one else is around, where it’s just you, nature, the beautiful lush soft grass, the sounds of the birds chirping around you, the mountains, and peace.

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Swaziland officially the Kingdom of Swaziland, and sometimes called Ngwane or Swatini, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Swaziland is a small country, no more than 200 km north to south and 130 km east to west. The western half is mountainous, descending to a lowveld region to the east. The eastern border with Mozambique and South Africa is dominated by the escarpment of the Lebombo Mountains.

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The Richtersveld is a mountainous desert landscape dotted by rugged kloofs and high mountains, situated in South Africa’s Northern Cape province. The whole area is a World Heritage Site and is characterized with changing scenery from flat sandy plains, to craggy sharp mountains of volcanic rock and the lushness of the Orange River, which forms the border with neighbouring Namibia. Located in South Africa’s northern Namaqualand, this arid area represents a harsh landscape where water is a great scarcity and only the hardiest of lifeforms survive. Despite this, the Richtersveld is regarded as the only Arid Biodiversity Hotspot on Earth, with an astonishing variety of plant, bird and animal life.

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The Øya festival is one of the biggest festivals in Norway. It is usually happened in August on the grounds of Middelalderparken (the Medieval Park). The audience reaches about 60.000 people for 4 days and countless others during lots of the preceding club parties and the club night. Each year more than 80 bands played in the park.

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This is a wonderful 14 roomed boutique hotel located in South Africa. Most of the hotel is submerged under concrete roofs covered in natural veld grasses; one enters the complex through what is experienced as a cleft in the rock; many of the walls of the hotel are faced with stone gathered from the site itself. At the same time, the wooden beams and decking of the restaurant area simulate an archeological landscape, marking the land for reference purposes.

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The 5 star Radisson Blu Sandton is centrally situated on the cross-way of Rivonia Roadworthy and Daisy Street in Sandton, Metropolis’s prestigious suburb in South Africa . The hotel provides favourable reach to the best Johannesburg attractions specified as Nelson Mandela  Square and over 144,000 angular metres of wealthiness retail stores of Sandton Port.

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Situated along the Garden Route at the Tsitsikamma Forest Village, South Africa, Bloukrans Bridge is the highest bridge in Africa and the third highest in the world. Completed in 1984, the Bloukrans Bridge towers 216 m above the river. It is also the highest Bungee Jump bridge in the world.

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One of Africa’s best-kept secrets, Singita Pamushana Lodge is hidden in the Malilangwe Wildlife Reserve in the south-eastern part of Zimbabwe. Located beneath the trees, the lodge unites the natural beautiful surroundings and the forest-like architecture providing vistas to the pool, the lavish gardens and the lake . Pamushana Lodge includes six exquisite suites and one villa, each looking to the Malilangwe dam.

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The Marine Hotel in Hermanus, South Africa, just 110 killometres away from Cape Town internationa Airport.It is a 5 star Relais & Chateaux Hotel,perfectly placed at the top of the cliffs in one of the greatest Southern Africa’s areas. Hermanus provides some of the best land-based whale watching points in the world and at The Marine you could stay in your own bed an overlook these astonishing beings.

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