by SA Places | Mar 30, 2012 | Travel Talk |
Ocean Adventurer, in partnership with the Two Oceans Aquarium, is offering a boat-based marine eco-tour. In Cape Town you’ll find one of the most prolific up-welling systems off the South African coastline. This creates an ideal environment for an abundance of...
by SA Places | Mar 15, 2012 | Travel Talk |
Salt water makes up 97.5% of water on Earth, leaving 2.5% as fresh water. Nearly 70% of fresh water is frozen in the icecaps, which means there’s not much left for us to use. In fact, humans use less than 1% of all water on Earth. This water has to be shared amongst...
by SA Places | Feb 28, 2012 | Travel Talk |
Some of the most frequent questions asked by visitors planning their first safari, are: Will I see the Big Five? Maybe. Many reserves have all the big five – lion, leopard, elephant, rhino and buffalo – but it’s not that easy to see them all,...
by SA Places | Feb 23, 2012 | Travel Talk |
Rooibos, the Afrikaans for “red bush”, is a broom-like plant and member of the legume family of plants growing in South Africa’s fynbos. The plant has very similar growth and flowers to the redbush. The plant is used to make an herbal tea called...
by SA Places | Feb 20, 2012 | Nature & Wildlife |
Kuruman is famous for the “Eye of Kuruman” (Die Oog in Afrikaans), a fresh water fountain that gushes from a seemingly barren dolomite rock to deliver 20 million litres of water a day even during the worst droughts. It is the source of the Kuruman river...
