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Shongweni Resource Reserve
Shongweni Resource Reserve, about halfway between Durban and Pietermaritzburg off the N3, is Rte 5 and Rte 6 of the 1000 Hills Experience. Part of a beautiful river valley and grassland area, it has a number of mammals (including giraffes, zebras and rhinos) and birds. Canoeing is
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Ha Kome Cave Houses
The Ha Kome cave houses are an anomaly in this area, 21km from Teyateyaneng and several kilometres from the village of Mateka. These extraordinary inhabited mud dwellings are nestled under a rock overhang, hidden within the pink-and-orange cliffs. There’s a small information centre
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Company’s Gardens
These shady green gardens, which started as the vegetable patch for the Dutch East India Company, are a lovely place to relax. They are planted with a fine collection of botanical specimens from South Africa and the rest of the world, including frangipanis, African flame trees, alo
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Highmoor Nature Reserve
Although more exposed and less dramatic than some of the Drakensberg region, the undulating hills of the reserve make for pleasant walks. It’s also one of the few places where you’re driving ‘on top of’ the foothills. There are two caves – Aasvoel Cave and Caracal Cave – both 2.5km
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Msunduzi Museum
Formerly known as Voortrekker Museum, Msunduzi Museum comprises a complex that incorporates the Church of the Vow, the home of Andries Pretorius, a Voortrekker house and a girls’ school (the museum’s administrative building). The Church of the Vow was built in 1841 to fulfil the Vo
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Fort Nongqayi Museum Village
Based around three-turreted Fort Nongqayi, the museum village also includes the Zululand Historical Museum, with artefacts and Victoriana; the excellent Vukani Museum with its Zulu basketry collection; and a missionary chapel. Well worth a look is the small but delightful butterfly
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Meerendal
Although it was established in 1702 and has some of the oldest pinotage and shiraz vineyards in South Africa, Meerendal is no fuddy-duddy wine estate. The tasting room is very professionally run and combined with a cafe. Theres also a pleasant seven-room boutique hotel, the contemp
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Lion’s Head
It was the Dutch who coined the term Lion’s Head (Leeuwen Kop) for the giant, nipple-like outcrop that overlooks Sea Point and Camps Bay. It takes about 45 minutes to cover the popular 2.2km-hike from Kloof Nek to the 669m summit. There are also hiking routes up from the Sea Point
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Peers Cave
Actually an overhang, this cave is named after Victor Peers, who, with his son Bertie, started excavating the site in 1927, collecting evidence of the habitation of the Khoe-San dating as far back as 10,000 years. The most dramatic find was of an 11,000-year-old-skull; it’s thought
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Smuts House Museum
JC Smuts home for over 40 years has been turned into an interesting museum. Surrounded by a wide verandah and shaded by trees, it has a family atmosphere and gives a vivid insight into Smuts’ life. If you’re travelling to/from Pretoria by car, it’s worth dropping in for a look. The
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Freedom Park
This stunning memorial adopts an integrated approach to South Africa’s war history and is a place of architectural imagination and collective healing. Located across the kopjie (rocky hill) from the austere Voortrekker Monument, Freedom Park honours fallen South Africans in all maj
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Kleinplasie Farm Museum
This farm museum is one of South Africa’s best museums, and takes you from a Trekboer’s hut to a complete, functioning 18th-century farm complex. It’s a ‘live’ museum, meaning there are people wandering around in period clothes and rolling tobacco, milling wheat, spinning wool and
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Historical Museum
In 1846 a Xhosa man named Tsili stole an axe from a shop in Fort Beaufort. In a masterly display of overreaction, a British force invaded the Xhosa province of Queen Adelaide, beginning the Seventh Frontier War, known as the War of the Axe (1846–47). Today, Fort Beaufort has left s
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Olive Schreiner House
Schreiner is best known for her classic Karoo novel, Story of an African Farm . Published in 1883 under the pseudonym Ralph Iron, the provocative plaasroman and bildungsroman advocated views considered radical well into the 20th century. She lived in this typical Karoo house for on
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Paarl Mountain Nature Reserve
The three giant granite domes that dominate this reserve glisten like pearls when washed by rain – hence the name ‘Paarl’. The reserve has mountain fynbos (literally ‘fine bush’; primarily proteas, heaths and ericas), a cultivated wildflower garden that’s a delightful picnic spot,
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Amathole Museum
Established by the London Missionary Society in 1826, King William’s Town (known as ‘King’) was a colonial capital and an important military base in the interminable struggle with the Xhosa. The main reason for a visit is the excellent Amathole Museum , one of the finest in the reg
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Tsolwana Nature Reserve
Tsolwana Nature Reserve is 60km southwest of Queenstown. The park is managed in conjunction with the local Tsolwana people, who benefit directly from the jobs and revenue produced. It protects some rugged Karoo landscape south of the spectacular Tafelberg (1965m) and adjoining the
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Shangana Cultural Village
About 5km north of town, along Rte 535, is a very touristy recreation of a traditional Shangaan community. At various times of the day it features a market, farming activity and house building. There are also displays of masocho (warriors) uniforms and weaponry, the relating of cus
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Grand Parade
A prime location in Cape Town’s history, the Grand Parade is where: the Dutch built their first fort in 1652; slaves were sold and punished; crowds gathered to watch Nelson Mandela’s first address to the nation as a free man after 27 years in jail; and the official FIFA fan park fo
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Mokala National Park
Tswana for camel thorn, Mokala National Park is named for the dominant tree found here. Mokala is a land of grassy plains studded with rocky hills and camel thorn trees. Indigenous to Southern Africa, the species is an immensely important resource to the people and wildlife that li
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