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Cape Colossal

Try and describe the unique southern African metropolis of Cape Town without mentioning its imposing Table Mountain backdrop and it would be like describing an elephant without its trunk.


Phinda Bush Skills Adventure

All eyes on a pair of lions, at Phinda Private Game Reserve (above); Sleeping out under the stars (right); Specialist ranger Mark Karantonis teaches rifle skills (below)

Tricia Welsh finds that a four-day ‘bush skills’ adventure on Phinda Private Game Reserve in South Africa can somewhat spoil it for regular safaris.


Soweto Uplifting

Although much has changed in South Africa since the breakdown of apartheid, I'll wager most of Soweto is pretty much as it's always been - a hot, motley, dusty settlement for struggling black Africans.


The Renaissance of Cape Town

One year older than New York, it sits spectacularly beneath the imposing Table Mountain (with its oft-present cloud cover, ‘the tablecloth’), seen from a hundred kilometres away as a great smoky, grey-blue shadow, a brooding, commanding presence which draws the eye like a hypnotist’s watch chain.


 

 
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