Tourism Month: Western Cape tourist guide registration system goes online
We are excited to announce a new online system launched to make it easier for the 5 000 tourist guides in the Western Cape to register, renew and update their details. Until now tourist guides have had to complete application forms in hard copy or via email, but now the Continue Reading
Award-winning fine dining establishment Greenhouse re-opens with both a new à la carte offering and its renowned tasting menu
Award-winning fine dining establishment Greenhouse re-opens with both a new à la carte offering and its renowned tasting menu With Constantia’s premium hotel, The Cellars-Hohenort, once again welcoming local travelers as of 01 September 2020, Greenhouse restaurant, located within this incredible heritage property, has re-opened its doors for dinner. A Continue Reading
First Group launches a brand-new celebrity-style wedding venue with seven-suite villa
Setting new standards in luxury weddings and accommodation First Group, the forward-thinking hotel and resort management company, is ushering in a new era of lavish, six-star hospitality with the opening of Swallow Cliff Hall, a luxurious wedding venue with a seven-suite villa situated in South Africa’s majestic Drakensberg. An exclusive Continue Reading
The Blue Train resumes operations
Following the National Government’s pronouncements moving the country to alert level 2, The Blue Train is pleased to announce that it will be resuming services for private charters as of September 2020 and leisure travel will resume with a full schedule including some local destinations, from 1st November 2020. While Continue Reading
“We Are Open” domestic tourism campaign launched
Today (27 August 2020), the Western Cape government, together with Wesgro, launched the “We Are Open” domestic tourism campaign to urge South Africans to take advantage and explore the beauty and diversity of the many affordable and world-class attractions that Cape Town and the Western Cape has to offer. With Continue Reading
Unique conservation opportunity with Tinstwalo Lapalala to help collar the wild dogs of the waterberg
UNIQUE CONSERVATION OPPORTUNITY WITH TINTSWALO LAPALALA TO HELP COLLAR THE WILD DOGS OF THE WATERBERG Conservation enthusiasts have the rare opportunity to book a safari package at Tintswalo Lapalala over the Heritage Day long weekend of 24 September 2020, to join a veterinary team and scientists from the Endangered Wildlife Continue Reading
The Franschhoek Motor Museum
The Franschhoek Motor Museum The Franschhoek Motor Museum is a world class facility situated on the L’Ormarins Estate in the majestic Franschhoek Valley, which is a 1 hour or 75 kilometres drive from central Cape Town. The museum’s Cape Dutch architecture reflects the area’s origins and exhibition space covers 2 700 Continue Reading
Bushtec Safari – African Safaris
Bushtec Safari – African Safaris With the provincial borders opened and people allowed to travel outside their provinces, why not invest the time and go explore our beautiful country. Even better to go and visit the bush. Ever stayed in a tented lodge? Most people don’t always recall the branding Continue Reading
BioBlitz – Discovering Plant & Bird Species That Call Babanango Game Reserve Home
Babanango Game Reserve is celebrating the completion of its first BioBlitz – an intense biological survey carried out by a group of scientists, naturalists and volunteers to record all living species within a designated area over a continuous time period. It’s a significant milestone for this new 22,000ha reserve Continue Reading
Launch of KwaXolo Caves Adventures combines outdoor fun with cultural wonder
Dating back some 100 000 years, the KwaXolo Caves, located inland of Margate on the KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) South Coast, were once open-rock shelters for indigenous San communities, with the history of these people echoed in the rock paintings evident today. Set atop the precipice of a deep gorge and boasting Continue Reading