The fifteenth annual three day event is to take place on the Observatory Village Green and surrounding roads and venues on the second week in December. Observatory is the local student hub with a large variety of restaurants, bars and clubs. The University of Cape Town and the Groote Schuur hospital is nearby.
During the festival visitors can enjoy different live acts and performances. More than 20 music bands and musicians do their performance, e.g. „30 from Ace”, „aKing” and „Tidal Waves“.
Festival goers can expect to see the city’s top musicians in action, the best of Obz nightlife, art installations, and exciting playgrounds for the kids, an extensive craft market, as well as the Lazy Sunday concert aimed at jazz lovers.
The festival takes place between 9th. – 11th. December 2011. Entrance fee will be 90 Rand for all three days.
Today started in Sea Point the largest beer festival of South Africa. More than 100 different brand of beers can be tested during the 3 day event.
Among these brands are Camelthorn, Darling, Bavaria, Corona, Carling Black Label, Napier, Jack Black, Paulaner, Mitchells, Castle, Fosters, Erdinger, Liefmans, Oettinger, Cobra, Tiger, Singha, Duvel, Maredsous und Valentines.
The venue of this event is Hamiltons Rugby Club opposite to the new soccer stadium. The entrance fee for one day is 60 Rand, all 3 days are for 120 Rand.
Additional to the beer testing a variety of music acts will be presented. In the evenning musicians do their performance.
From November 25 to 27 the annual music festival “Synergy Live” takes place in Boschendal Wine Estate near to Franschhoek. From Cape Town you get to this location within 1 hour by car.
More than 80 locals bands, live acts and electro musican perform on 4 different stages.
The ticket price is 440 Rand for all three days and 100 Rand for one day.
More details, especially which bands perform at wich time you get here [...]
Residents and tourists of Cape Town, who are going to stay for New Years Eve in the city, start to think about the options they have for this night. The variety is huge, starting by clubbing at the Long Street to spending the evenning in a Camps Bay bar.
One possibilty, to spend the first half of New Years Eve, is the attendance of Victora & Alfred Waterfront in Cape Town. Different musicians perform on the Amphitheatre, starting time is 7 pm. Two of the performers are Soi Soi Gqeza and Saber. Soi Soi is a famous South African jazz singer. The concert itself is free of charge.
In the area of Victora & Alfred Waterfront in Cape Town are various restaurants for the New Years Eve dinner.
Highlight is the fireworks at midnight. Afterwards you can continue with your party in one of the clubs on the Long Street [...]
On 27th. of November 2011 one sunset concert takes places in the Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden. The concert is a wonderful way to spend a Sunday evenning in the city. Thousands of visitors will enjoy the breathtaking setting of the botanical garden by having a picnic, drinking a bottle of wine and listening to the music.
On Sunday the Africaans music bands “Van Coke Cartel” and “Die Heuwels Fantasties” do perform. Both already won different music awards .
The entrance charge for adults is 100 Rand, for youth (6 to 21 years) 75 Rand. The concert starts 5.30 pm und lasts for 1,5 hours [...]
Those who already have visited the park Hlhuhluwe in the northern part of KwaZulu-Natal, should not miss the nearby Greater St Lucia Wetland Park. The 275 000 hectare precinct includes 5 different ecosystems.
St. Lucia, 30,000-acres in size, at the mouth of the river, is an impressive spectacle of nature. Since 1999, the lake is an UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Lake St. Lucia is separated from the sea by dunes which are up to 200 m high. During storm surges, at single coastal strips, it is possible that the sea water flows into the lake.
St. Lucia is not a pure fresh water lake, but a brackish lake. Over 1000 hippos and 800 crocodiles live in it. Furthermore, there are many species of birds to watch. Most travellers book a boat trip for several hours on the lake. Then you can observe and photograph the various groups and hippos closely. They usually gather at the flatter sections in the water. Then only their heads are sticking out of the water [...]
One of the touristic highlights of the Little Karoo is the town Oudtshoorn, which comes up with no fewer than three destinations worth visiting – the ostrich farms, the Cango Caves and the Swartberg Pass.
The town lies in a scenic environment of the Karoo. In the north there are the small and large Swartberg mountains, in the south there are the Outeniqua mountains. The mountain ranges of the large and small Swartberg separate the Great from the Little Karoo. Meiringspoort and Seweweekspoort, which lies further in the west, have been the only routes between the two Karoo areas since the colonization of this area. A well developed road on the tour between Oudtshoorn and the Cango Caves leads to a picturesque scenery canyon, passing by a waterfall with a pool adapted for swimming.
Due to the rare blowing wind the temperature often reaches about 40 degrees at the Oudtshoorn valley. Ostrich-breeding is the most important source of revenue since the introduction of Oudtshoorn in the 1840s. An appropriate climate and a good soil allow a rich growing of lucerns, which build the staple food for the ostriches. It turnes out that the original wild animals were held forth to hundreds of thousands. At the beginning of the 20th Century, ostrich feathers became an important fashion accessory. Global demand went sky high and regional farmers earned much money [...]
Every tour to Robben Island includes a meeting with a former prisoner of the prison island who tells us about the conditions at that time. It’s a tragical factual report about the unscrupulousness of a regime which got rid of its political enemies over here.
After arrival on Robben Island, the prisoners have first of all been registered. According to the apartheid logics, they were divided into various categories, which depended on their colour of skin. There haven’t been any white prisoners on this island, which was only provided for Blacks, Coloureds and Asians. Every prisoner received a registration number. Die last two numbers meant the year of arrival, the first numbers meant the number of prisoner of the current year. Nelson Mandela had number 466. Prisoner in the year of 1964, so it was 46664 [...]
Robben Island is one of the most famous islands in the world, a symbol for the anti – apartheid struggle , a memorial for freedom. Nelson Mandela has been imprisoned for more than 2 decades. on this island.
The image has been taken on Robben Island. The panorama of Cape Town can be seen [...]
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The fifteenth annual three day event is to take place on the Observatory Village Green and surrounding roads and venues on the second week in December. Observatory is the local student hub with a large variety of restaurants, bars and clubs. The University of Cape Town and the Groote Schuur hospital is nearby.
