This is the place where you can find informed and inspiring choices of where to WINE, DINE, STAY and PLAY whilst you are on holiday in Southern Africa with us. Constantly updated - and with regular "real life" comments from our travellers - each section simply lists some of the favourite things we love doing in our City of Cape Town and as we travel OUT & ABOUT across Southern Africa and beyond.
We hope you feel inspired to try some of our choices and we would like to hear your thoughts and comments if you do.

With thousands of tourists pouring into Cape Town during the summer and even winter months, many want to tour the Cape to see its beauty first hand.  There are so many different types of tours available where one can see the most popular tourist sites but we found one that we just had to share [...]

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We know that our many visitors to Cape Town want to taste some of our great wines during their visit, but with so many other attractions to fit in and so many different wine estates to try there is often little time to really get to grips with the regions finest. I [...]

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Richard Holt – our inhouse wine fanatic/fundi and Travel Concepts Director recently visited Constantia Glen wine estate. This is what went down – according to him!
The Constantia Valley, just 20 minutes south of Cape Town is famous for its colonial history, its beauty, style and affluence. It’s a place where people enjoy the finer things [...]

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Mandi Johnson-Aliverti, our dynamic head of travel, recently spent the morning in the lush Constantia Valley with 2 very important ladies in her life. She was on a quest to find out what else one can do in this valley – other than sample wines, shop and ride horses!
“I visited the renowned luxury hotel, [...]

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This month our Managing Director shares his latest find, an excellent Bordeaux blend hidden away in a small boutique winery in the Constantia Valley.
“First time visitors to the Constantia wine route, just south of Cape Town are invariably drawn to the more recognised wine estates like Groot Constantia, Buitenwerwachting and Steenberg.
However there is now a [...]

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The Groot Constantia 2007 Semillon/Sauvignon Blanc is by no means an expensive wine. We love this white blend for its value and its fresh, crisp taste. The Groot Constantia estate nestled in the beautiful Constantia Valley just 20 minutes from Cape Town is one of the oldest in the Cape. The wine tastes especially good [...]

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