Celebrations go

LAUNCESTON’S Countdown 2009 event cracked the 10,000 barrier last night.The city’s New Year’s Eve celebrations began with a bang as food, wine, musical entertainment and fireworks filled Aurora Stadium.Event coordinator Ric Marton said that people were still arriving well into the evening.”After the first fireworks display at 9.30, we just had a massive influx of [...]

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Things you need to Know and Pack for an African Safari Vacation

Clothing:Casual and semi-casual clothing is best suited to the relaxed informal style of African Safari and tourist lodges. Bright colors and white are not suitable for game viewing. Stick to neutral colors and do not take a large suitcase and a multitude of clothes.

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Cidade Velha

Cidade Velha means “Old City,” and its antiquity has elevated its status as a recently declared Unesco World Heritage site.Founded in 1462, it was the first European settlement in the tropics. The city was a key station for the transatlantic slave trade. There are remains of an old cathedral, onstructed in 1693, and the old [...]

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Egypt

Situated at the northeastern corner of Africa, Egypt is bordered on the north by the Mediterranean Sea, in the east by Israel and the Red Sea, in the South by Sudan, and to the west by Libya.The altitude of Egypt ranges from 132 m (436 ft) below sea level in the Libyan Desert to about [...]

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whl unveils Garden Route franchise

Mossel Bay – An international travel portal that was started as a way of making developing-world tourism products accessible and bookable on line (in the same way as they are in the West) has appointed Mossel Bay’s Back Road Safaris as their local market place operators (MPOs).The portal – whl.travel – now sells accommodation, attractions [...]

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Comair buys MT Beds and res24seven

Johannesburg – Comair Limited, the parent company of British Airways in Southern Africa and kulula.com’s airline and travel businesses, today announced the purchase of MT Beds and res24seven. The transaction further extends the kulula travel services business by leveraging two successful online sales platforms that consolidate travel accommodation inventories among multiple distribution channels.The transaction will [...]

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Cape Town Tourism elects new board

Cape Town – At the first meeting of the newly elected Cape Town Tourism Executive Committee last night, members of the Executive Committee elected Ian Bartes, Manager of Service Standards and Quality Assurance at Cape Town International Airport as the new Chairman of Cape Town Tourism.Ian has been a member of the last Executive Committee, [...]

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SAA celebrates 10 years flying Nigerian route

Lagos – South African Airways (SAA) celebrates its tenth year of operations to Lagos, Nigeria, this month. In 1998, SAA decided to help facilitate the flow of local organisations to Nigeria and so began operations to the country’s capital, Lagos.Ten years later, the route is one of the airline’s most successful with its load factors [...]

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SA Roadlink banned on KwaZulu-Natal roads

Durban – National bus operator SA Roadlink had its licence to operate in KwaZulu-Natal withdrawn on Wednesday, the province’s transport MEC said. MEC Bheki Cele announced in Durban that from midnight on Friday December 19, no SA Roadlink bus would be allowed to operate within the province.He said the permit to operate had been withdrawn, [...]

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New Garden Route National Park gets stamp of approval

Garden Route – The proposal for proclaiming the Garden Route National Park (GRNP) was finally gazetted on the 21st of November and the proclamation of the Park is now only months away.There are only three other National Parks in the world where residents live within the borders of the proclaimed Park – in Italy, Canada [...]

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