Guilt Free South African Artists Tips

This excellent display of nature is one of south african artists kept secrets and seldom generally seems to draw a big crowd of overseas visitors, it is however very popular with the locals and so accommodation should be booked in advance. The route start about 5 hours beyond Cape Town once you're able to the Namaqualand but proof the desert transformation is seen when one leaves the town limits and starts heading up the N7.

Just beyond Cape Town are the world famous wine routes. Internationally award winning wines come from this region. The Spier wine estate could very well be one of the better known.There are however dozens more and you can easily spend a complete day tasting wines on the different estates. Well worth a stop by at would be the brandy distillers, brandy is now something of a national drink in South Africa with 57 million litres of brandy produced every year brandy comprises 65% of most spirits manufactured in South Africa.

Visiting Robben Island in Table Bay is an experience that no tourist should leave Cape Town without having. The hawaiian islands history as a host to incarceration for political prisoners during apartheid makes the tour a really emotional experience. The island's history, however, dates back to a long time before the times of Apartheid, having been used as a host to isolation the stories you'll hear are fact filled and interesting. Possibly the absolute most special facet of the tours is the truth that they are conducted by former political prisoners that served time on Robben Island. They offer first-hand accounts of what life in the prison was like.

North of Cape Town in the Northern Cape Province is an area called the Namaqualand. Each year during spring in this region nature puts on a present the likes of which you'll only see elsewhere on Guy Fawkes Day. At spring time this dusty, arid, semi desert plane is transformed as if with a painters brush right into a riot of colour. Over 400 different species of flowers bloom here every year and attract a large number of visitors.