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Showing posts with label Cape. Show all posts

Friday, 9 August 2024

South Africa: Recommended Experience - Family Activities in the Western Cape

TOURING CAPE TOWN

Recommended Experience - Family Activities in the Western Cape

These are some of the wonderful tour options for families traveling with children, with a bit more detail on each to help parents choose the best activities for their family:

• Two Oceans Aquarium

To raise awareness of the oceans, the Two Oceans Aquarium is designed to showcase the beauty and diversity of the oceans off Southern Africa.

• Clay Café- City Bowl (Also available in Hout Bay & Paarl)

One of the most loved family experiences - and an amazing menu to go with it.

• Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden

The 36-hectare Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden is a fun outing for the whole family. Stop by the café for tea and scones (or milkshakes and waffles).

• Clay Pigeon Adventures

Clay Pigeon Adventures is an experience company, where you get to shoot real bullets in a safe, controlled and fun environment.

• Cycling or E-biking Stellenbosch

Choose between a normal bicycle or an e-bike, and join a tour that combines the beautiful scenery and historic sites of Stellenbosch.

• Scootours

South Africa’s first Scootours Flow Trail with berms, and a bush tunnel.

• The Tree House & Outdoor Experience at Boschendal

Free-range fun for children (5 to 14 years), with activities such as foraging, scavenger hunts, spoor tracking, fire-making, survival skills and more.

• Ultimate Putt 

The newest exciting addition to Lourenford’s offering is Ultimate Putt - a brand new 18-hole putt-putt course.

• The Alpaca Loom

On this farm near Paarl, you can walk with alpacas on a halter, feed them, visit the barn where they sleep and tour the weaving studio that produces alpaca wool products on hand looms.

AIRLINES

LATAM Airlines will increase its Johannesburg-São Paulo frequency from three flights a week to five, starting 01 November 2024.

The new flight schedule is as follows:

• LA8059: Departs Johannesburg Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays at 15h15 arriving São Paulo at 20h00.

• LA8058: Departs São Paulo Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays at 22:45 arriving Johannesburg 12:25 (the next day)

FlySafair - OR Tambo International Airport (JNB) to Kruger Mpumalanga International Airport (MQP).

The airline has launched another route to Kruger Mpumalanga International Airport (MQP) in Nelspruit, this time from OR Tambo International Airport (JNB).

• The new twice-weekly service starts on 02 August 2024

• The airline launched its Cape Town-Nelspruit service in April.

• As well as serving the local market, the Johannesburg-Nelspruit route will also enable international tourists to reach prime South African tourist destinations more easily, with the Kruger National Park being a firm favourite.

The JNB-MQP flight schedule will be as follows:

Fridays and Sundays

• Depart Johannesburg OR Tambo at 11h15

• Arrive Kruger Mpumalanga at 12h10

• Departs Kruger Mpumalanga at 12h45

• Arrive Johannesburg OR Tambo at 13h40

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Wednesday, 17 April 2024

South Africa: La Cybelle, Princeport, Astrida & Otori Maru 8 shipwrecks

SAHRA Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage

March 19:

“This day in our shipwreck and aeronautical wreck history”

1756: La Cybelle, this 12-gun wooden sailing slaver wrecked north of Blaauwbergstrand in Table Bay in the Western Cape. It entered the bay in search of fresh water when it ran aground and wrecked.

1885: Princeport, this wooden sailing vessel wrecked on a reef near Dyer Island in the Western Cape.

1945: Astrida, this steam-powered passenger/cargo ship foundered, about 120 km south east of Algoa Bay in the Eastern Cape.

The Astrida (1945), date and location unknown

It capsized and foundered in a storm and a distress signal was radioed out before it went down. The frigate Nadder and the tug John Dock rescued 29 people within 10 hours of the sinking, however, 88 people were never found.

1984: Otori Maru 8, this motor-powered fishing vessel ran aground at Shell Point, just west of Quoin Point in the Western Cape.

The Otori Maru 8 (1984) in 1990

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