Be a part of the most important sporting year in SA’s history, and kick it off with the first major event of the year! Entries are open to the 2010 Hansa Powerade Dusi Canoe Marathon and it promises to be the best one yet!
August 11th, 2009
Hobie European Championships - Lake Como, Italy. With 270 entrants the Hobie Europeans Championships is the biggest Hobie event of the 2009 calender.
Congratulations to the winners:
Hobie 16 European Champion 2009 - Tim Shuwalow and Cecilia Colling (Sweden)
Hobie Tiger European Champion 2009 - Misha Heemskerk and Bastiaan Tentij (Holland)
Hobie 14 European Champion 2009 -s Jorg Stoltenberg (Germany)
Big screen surf videos, some of SA's best indie bands and more will be happening at the Mahala Surf And Music Festival, set to rock out on Friday the 12th of June in partnership with Zigzag Magazine.
CAMP Jabulani in Hoedspruit, Limpopo, has launched its ‘Team Tusker’ programme to cater for safari goers under the age of 12.The programme is structured to stimulate and entertain younger guests, thus allowing their parents to enjoy time on their own, particularly during night-time elephant safaris. Children under the age of 10 are allowed on early-morning elephant safaris if their parents accompany them.The activity menu covers spoor identification, tracking, camp and survival basics, orienteering, basic bush cooking, baking and Land Rover orientation.
FROM July 1, Airlink will increase its Johannesburg to Pemba, Mozambique, flight schedule to two direct flights a week, operating between OR Tambo International and Pemba.In addition to its current Saturday flight, Airlink will now introduce a new return flight operating on Wednesdays.
Bushmans Kloof will now be known as Bushmans Kloof Wilderness and Wellness Retreat.Reflected in the name change are the expansion of its spa facilities and the introduction of ‘innovative and therapeutic’ body and face treatments to the spa menu.The upgraded spa will soon offer six treatment room and a steam chamber with its own signature massage.
Madikwe Collection are very proud to announce that Buffalo Ridge Safari Lodge been given Fair Trade in Tourism South Africa (FTTSA) accreditation. 1Time will be launching five flights per week between Johannesburg and Livingstone using a 130-seater MD87 aircraft.
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Travel + Leisure Magazine has just completed its 2009 Worlds Best Service Awards, asking its readers to nominate destinations around the globe that "really deliver". The results were published in the magazine's June edition, and Sabi Sabi is honoured to have been voted as 7th best hotel overall in the world, the only South African establishment in the World's Top Ten category. In the regional category Sabi Sabi was voted 2nd best on the African continent.
THE four-star Protea Hotel Umhlanga Ridge will open in July.Situated in Umhlanga, 20 minutes from Durban’s CBD, the hotel will offer a restaurant, bar, coffee shop, swimming pool, conference facilities, a lounge, a piazza and retail outlets.
