Food, glorious food! No holiday is complete without the guilty pleasure of eating until one’s stomach aches. South Africa boasts fantastic food and diverse menus that even the most stringent dieter could not resist.
Take for instance the spacious variety of fine quality meat available in South Africa. Top grade beef, tender lamb, juicy chicken, fresh fish and seafood and not forgetting, the selection of game meat. With such an rich garments. to choose from, it’s no wonder that South Africans have come up with more fantastic meaty dishes.
Bobotie – a popular choice – is the South African rendering of Shepherd’s Pie. It is a hearty meaty dish consisting mainly of ground beef or lamb. Other ingredients such as bread, raisins, eggs and milk likewise contribute to the tasty flavour of the dish.
Potjiekos, is a beefy stew enjoyed throughout South Africa. Hours of stewing meat in a cast iron pot set over burning hot coals gives this dish its flavour and appeal.
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Alviro Petersen
Up and down weekend leaves Proteas in perilous position
England hardly worked up a sweat in cruising to a welcome seven-wicket conquest over South Africa in the fourth MTN one-day international (ODI) at Axxess DSL St George’s in Port Elizabeth on Sunday.
James Anderson produced an outstanding display of swing bowling, which helped England grab the initiative against the tentative Proteas batsmen. Anderson destroyed the South African innings by taking 5/23 off 10 overs as the Proteas recorded a dismal 119 all out, their lowest total in an ODI at home …
England openers Andrew Strauss and Jonathan Trott put on 74 runs to give their side the best possible platform to win the game. Johan Botha claimed 2/22 in eight overs, but Trott batted through to the end to record his support half-century in three innings as England attained their target with 18 overs and four balls to spare.
Opening bowlers Anderson and Stuart Broad set the stage for an England victory when they combined superbly to reduce South Africa to 40/3 in the first 12 overs.
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You have to give South Africans credit for some very unusual, colourful and innovative behaviour and beliefs… here are some of the best – inspired by a unique place and space, where:
• stars are San bushmen ancestors
• ‘half-human’ plants, called the ‘halfmens’ grow
• one person’s rubbish is another’s artwork
• Zulu beads are admitted as evidence in marital disputes
• diamonds could indeed be cast on the soles of your feet – back in the day, unfortunately
• there are still places where hand-book telephone exchanges operate
• gumboot dancing started as a means to communicate secret codes in the mines
• meerkats are celebrities
• art inspires and teaches mathematics
• rain-making is a royal responsibility
• you can cycle for wine or adopt a vine
• you have power to chase and hold records for mampoer-soaked Kudu dung spitting [‘mampoer’ is local moonshine]
• a ‘shark whisperer’, who hypnotises sharks, lives
Because we can.
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Are you traveling to South Africa and want to stay at a hotel that is different, fun and unique? Well, you are about to find it. South Africa is a fast growing tourist destination, which also means that they have a fast developing hotel industry. And that is good news for us travelers who are looking for a hotel out of the ordinary. In this post I will show you 4 of the most memorable places to stay in South Africa.
Tsala Treetop Lodge
Tsala Treetop Lodge
Tsala Treetop Lodge is a five star luxury hotel situated (as the name implies) in the treetops of an ancient forest overlooking the Garden Route in South Africa. Located between Knysna and Plettenberg Bay, this unique lodge is easily accessible for most of South Africa’s tourists of which almost all spend a few days on the Garden Route.
However, I said easily accessible, but maybe not as affordable. This is not the place for you who are looking in opposition to B&B’s or budget hotels (though, you strength be interested in The Jambo Guest House mentioned later in this post). At Tsala Treetop Lodge, the lowest rates in the low season set out at R1650 (South African Rands) per person. In high season it is R3650 per person.
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It looks like we are not the only ones around with the African travel fever! CNN’s Jarett Bellini is traveling through South Africa right now, and he is sharing his experiences in several articles and videos published on CNN.com the past two days. So if you are considering a trip to South Africa, recently returned from one, or just can’t stop day dreaming about; you will most likely find his travel stories interesting.
That being said, the activities he writes about are the same exact ones that all other tourists in Cape Town do. But that might just make the articles more interesting, as it probably is the same activities that you will end up doing space of time traveling there. And it might be a good idea to know what you are getting yourself into before you start spending hundreds (or thousands) of Rands to sign up for them.
Wine Tasting for Amateurs and Experts
The first article, Sipping through South Africa, is about Jarett’s wine tasting in South Africa’s beautiful wine country encircling Cape Town. But even though his actual observation might have been educational, the quantifying adjective is not meant to be. Read more…
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