SOUTH AFRICA
SOUTH AFRICA top tips...
• Mountain highs... “Cleopatra Mountain Farmhouse offers the best of boutique. A romantic gourmet getaway nestled in KZN’s Drakensberg Mountains, the five-star lodge is known for its roaring log fires and seven-course dinners” ALEXANDER JAMES Travel Writer
• Bush talk...
The sculpture is set to become one of South Africa’s most visited works of art, with a complementing exhibition of Mandela’s life and apartheid history. The new TV series of Charley Boorman’s Extreme Frontiers starts on November 2. It will focus exclusively on South Africa’s hidden gems and adventure and sporting options. South Africa will attract a world
of artists leading up to 2014, as Cape Town is set to become World Design Capital. It was designated the prestigious title ahead of other shortlisted cities, Dublin and Bilbao. Sun International opens two new properties in December 2012. In Port Elizabeth, the five-star Hotel Boardwalk graces the beachfront and is located at the starting or finishing point for the Garden Route. The four-star Grayston will open in Sandton, Johannesburg, aimed at leisire and business travellers.
Winchester Mansions, a popular seafront hotel in Sea Point, Cape Town, has revamped its public areas and amenities, including Harveys bar, with its views of the promenade, and Harveys restaurant. The hotel is known for staging regular events like the weekly Sunday Jazz Brunches. Fugitives Drift, close to the famous Anglo-Zulu war battlefield of Rorke’s Drift, is adding special battlefield tours for children in 2013. Aimed at the under-12s, the interactive tour will engage children with stories of courage from both British soldiers and Zulu warriors. Activities include discovering the medicinal uses of the region’s flora and fauna and a game walk. Prices start from about £35 (
www.fugitivedrift.com). Rezidor will open its second Park
Inn by Radisson in Cape Town in early 2014. Newlands is a mid-
“If you want a memorable safari, South Africa is as good as it gets – as long as you book with the right tour operator! But if you don’t include a safari in a South African itinerary the value will surprise a lot of people.” JAMES WESTRIP Africa Collection
• Early beginnings... “The Cradle of Humankind is a World Heritage Site 50km from Johannesburg. A museum that claims to reveal the secrets of evolution, it also contains a complex of limestone caves where a 2.3-million year-old fossil was once found” ALEXANDER JAMES Travel Writer
Facing page: Durban beachfront; This page, from left: Up close and personal with a white rhino; The true face of Africa; The Cape Grace hotel, located on its own private quay on the vibrant V&A waterfront
GOOD MORNINGS! BY ALEXANDER JAMES
“No matter how nocturnal you are, South Africa will have you gasping wide-eyed at its sun-blessed mornings. That’s when the light and ambience
of the country’s natural bounty is at its most peacefully inspiring. It could be the serenity of waking up
in your bushside lodge on the Phinda Game Reserve before hearing the echo of a lion’s roar in the distance. Elsewhere, you can find what is probably the world’s best breakfast at Table Bay Hotel in Cape Town – a feast of iced oysters, exotic fruits, pastries, meats and as much sparkling wine as you can wash it down with, and a waterside view of the Victoria and Albert Waterfront.”
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