Newsletter: April 2007    
Latitude-Ventures is a tour company that helps you enjoy the most of your Southern African travels. Whatever you choose, – luxury rail, tours, history, food, safaris, golfing, or just luxuriating amidst the exotic cultures – we will tailor-make your holiday, golfing experience or conference to include all tours, transfers, restaurants, hotels and activities.

5 facts about South Africa

  1. Because of its colonial history, Cape Town has been described as having a truly cosmopolitan feel; vibrant in many cultures and people.

  2. Robben Island was declared a UN heritage site in 1990.

  3. Some of the world’s best land-based whale watching is found in Hermanus, a small town just outside Cape Town.

  4. South Africa will host the 2010 Fifa soccer World Cup .

  5. South Africa has become one of the world’s fastest growing holiday destinations due to its diversity and ideal weather.

2 Nights: Safari - Kings Camp

From Johannesburg you catch a connecting flight to Hoedspruit. From here you are transferred to your lodge in the heart of the African bush, where you are taken on game drives and enjoy the exquisite African Cuisine.

2 Nights: Rovos Rail (Pretoria – Cape Town)

The Rovos Rail consists of two beautifully restored steam locomotives of up to twenty coaches each – half of which date back to the twenties and thirties. You will traverse the scenically beautiful route in exquisite accommodation and be offered culinary excellence.

www.rovos.co.za

5 Nights: Cape Town – The Bay Hotel, Camps Bay: Premier Rooms

Things to do in Cape Town include the V and A Waterfront, shopping, browsing, dining and touring:

www.tourismcapetown.co.za


Full Day Peninsula Tour – On this private tour, you will visit both the Atlantic and the Indian Oceans, see them meet at Cape Point, go to an African Penguin colony, go to Hout Bay – where, you may go on a cruise and see Seal Island, - visit Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens and probably see baboons, ostrich, penguins, seals, bird life and the Southern Right Whale (seasonal). This tour includes lunch at a restaurant and in the evening, you can go to the theatre or just relax with some good, well-established African jazz.

www.capepoint.co.za


Robben Island - Take a cruise to Robben Island where you will see the infamous political prison, go on a bus tour around the island and see Nelson Mandela’s cell.

www.robben-island.org.za


Whale Route (June-Nov) - Visit towns like Hermanus and Arniston and take a cruise and see the visiting Southern Right Whales as they arrive in the harbours.



Township Tour – These interactive tours take you into the heart of the Xhosa culture and exhibit some of the food and people of Cape Town.



There are many other tours from which to choose and advice is freely given.
 

2 Nights: Wine Route - Le Franschhoek Hotel, Franschhoek

www.winelands.co.za

Wine Tours: you are escorted through the many wine regions of the Western cape, where you are able to sample the vast varieties of wines, all set in idealic surroundings.

the most popular tour is a Cheese, wine, olive and chocolate tour.

You are collected and taken to some of the estates in Stellenbosch and Franschhoek where you can sample the selections of cheese, wine, olives and chocolate.

www.lefranschhoek.co.za




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