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And Beyond
This 17,500-hectare reserve, to the northwest of Lake St Lucia, is an ecotourism showpiece of And Beyond , a private-reserve chain.
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Albany Natural Science Museum
Covers a mishmash of subjects, from early human history to astronomy. The collection includes some impressive taxidermy and skeletons.
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Moravian Church
The Moravian Churchis a handsome, simply decorated building. There’s a cafe here selling homemade bread and souvenirs, including pottery.
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Grocott’s Mail
Grocott’s Mail is one of Grahamstowns best examples of preserved historic shopfronts. It still houses a working newspaper office.
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Posthuys
Dating from the 1670s, this one-time lookout post for ships entering False Bay is one of Cape Town’s oldest European-style buildings.
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Didima Rock Art Centre
The Didima San Art Centre, at Didima Camp 1km into Royal Natal National Park, offers an excellent, multimedia insight into San rock art.
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Transport Museum
Theres an impressive private collection of vintage cars here, including two Daimlers from King George Vs 1947 visit to South Africa.
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Seal Point Lighthouse
Built in 1878, this lighthouse is the tallest masonry tower on the South African coast, and marks the second-most-southern tip of Africa.
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Rycroft Gate
This is the the first gate into Kirstenbosch youll pass through if you approach the gardens from Constantia or Hout Bay along Rhodes Drive.
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Promenade Pets
Rest on one of these Art54 benches by Rocklands Beach; the seats are held up by pairs of blue seagulls, black sea lions and pink poodles.
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Salmonsdam Nature Reserve
Salmonsdam Nature Reserve, 18km east of the town, offers pleasant short hikes of two to seven kilometres through fynbos to waterfalls.
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Rorkes Drift
Rorke’s Drift is the place where 139 British soldiers successfully defended a small mission station from around 4000 Zulu warriors in 1879.
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Clifton 3rd Beach
The third of four sheltered beaches strung along Victoria Rd at Clifton (and the prettiest) is the popular with the Capetonian gay crowd.
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King Shaka Visitor Centre
The King Shaka Visitor Centre is worth visiting for limited but clear historical and chronological information about Shaka and his kingdom.
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Howick Museum
The small Howick Museum has everything from quaint exhibits of colonial artefacts to a replica of a contemporary local township shack.
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Orchid House
This glasshouse has a beautiful collection of flowers and some dazzling orchids. The park outside is an ideal place to take the kids for a picnic.
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Entumeni Nature Reserve
Entumeni Nature Reserve preserves indigenous mist-belt forest in a sugar-cane region. It’s 16km west of town, off the road to Entumeni and Nkandla.
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Isandlwana
The Zulus dealt the Empire one of its great Battlefields disasters here by annihilating the main body of the British force in devastating style.
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Relaxation Area
The Relaxation Area between the casino and the Sun Coast Beach is a safe and pleasant spot to lie and bake. It has lawn, deck chairs and brollies.
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Lucas Meijer Museum
The Lucas Meijer Museum is a small local-history museum in the old Lucas Meijer House (Meijer was the only president of the Nieuwe Republiek).
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