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Royalty couple visit our Private Game Reserve
South Africa Private Game Reserve was truly honoured to host Prince Charles, Prince of Wales and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall for one day of their recent South African tour.
The royal couple paid a special visit to andBeyond Phinda Private Game Reserve, as part of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) initiative showcasing conservation projects in KwaZulu-Natal.
New: Johannesburg home converted into a Museum Guesthouse
Mahatma Gandhi's historic Johannesburg home has been transformed into a museum guesthouse by French company. Voyageurs du Monde, who bought the property two years ago as an investment in 'liberation tourism' The restored Satyagraha House in Orchards opened last week following a restoration project that has seen the re-creation of the Edwardian home along with the development of an on-site museum, featuring Gandhi memorabilia and period pieces from India.
The guesthouse component of the Satyagraha House comprises nine rooms and a restaurant offering strictly vegetarian fare in accordance with Gandhi’s own dietary preference.
The house tells its own compelling story but can also be integrated into a wider visitor experience by combining a visit here with visits to Soweto, Constitution Hill and Johannesburg’s Old Fort Prison, a jail where Gandhi and Nelson Mandela were both held.
Black water tubing along the Garden Route
Under low water conditions the Stormsriver Tubing experience is similar to kloofing - an activity where you paddle through pools and walk the river's shallow sections.
Backwater tubing is a serene adventure with fun filled hours of splashing, swimming, rock jumping and hiking onto the most spectacular landscapes on the Garden Route – The Tsitsitkamma. All guides are trained, certified and registered as professional swiftwater safety guides
Fancourt to host another major world Golf event!
Fancourt is to Host another of the World’s Major Golf Events. Fancourt has announced that the European Tour’s first-ever true ‘tournament of champions’ event has been confirmed for South Africa’s number-one golf course - The Links at Fancourt, where it will be held from 19th to the 22nd January 2012.
The event holds the prospect of the finest field ever assembled for a European Tour event on African soil, chasing the €350,000 (approximately ZAR3.5million) first prize. With a prize fund of €2million (approximately ZAR20million) the Volvo Golf Champions is the first solely-sanctioned European Tour event of 2012, and offers the circuit’s most valuable purse on the African continent.
Table Mountain voted New7Wonder of Nature!
Table Mountain has been voted onto the provisional list of the New7Wonders of Nature and we are extremely proud to have this icon located in our very own backyard.
New: Express charter flight to our lodges
Effective as of February 2012, the Malatu Express charter flight will combine the MalaMala Game Reserve, the legendary South African Big Five Reserve flanking the Kruger National Park, with Mashatu Game Reserve in Botswana. Mala Mala is strategically sandwiched between the Sabi Sand Reserve and the world famous Kruger National Park. This exclusive reserve offers incredible sightings of Africa's wildlife.
The Mashatu Main Camp is located in the remote eastern corner of Botswana, at the confluence of the Limpopo and Shashe rivers, in an area known historically as the Tuli enclave – a diverse wilderness of savannah, riverine forests, marshland, open plains and sandstone outcrops.
The name is derived from the magnificent Mashatu trees, which occur throughout this immense tract of privately owned land. There are DAILY flights between O.R. Tambo International Airport (Johannesburg) and Polokwane Airport and a connecting road transfer to or from Mashatu Game Reserve.
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