Cape Town Map
Cape Town has a rich architectural heritage. Have you ever stopped for a moment and wondered what lies beyond the facades of the buildings you most probably drive past …
Category: Africa
CENTRE FOR THE BOOK Queen Victoria Street Cape Town
The soft sandstone of the upper reaches of the building was the perfect material to support fairly elaborate and often intricate carved decoration. This loggia is above the main …
OLD MUTUAL BUILDING Darling Street Cape Town
The entrance lobby. Black, gold-veined onyx for the walls and burnished gold leaffor the ceiling. At the summit of the 17 steps is the entrance to the Banking Hall, …
KOOPMANS-DE WET HOUSE Strand Street Cape Town
In the gaanderij, or lower hall, the neoclassical wall decoration behind the Cape coromandel side table (c. 1780) is original -first uncovered around 1913 by Dr William Purcell, whose …
Honeymoon in Mauritius
ROMANCE Mauritius is as romantic as you can get and is one of the most popular wedding and honeymoon destinations in the world. HISTORY Aventure du Sucre museum tells …
Travel to Mauritius
Being the girl who never wears her dresses, I packed my bags two weeks ago with the few flowing, summery dresses I have, four bikinis and a couple of …
EGYPT
Egypt is Africa’s number one attraction with about 1.3 million visitors each year. U.S. visitors number about 150,000 annually. Tourism is nothing new for Egypt; it was a destination …
THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA
The richest of the African nations, South Africa also has one of the most attractive climates and an abundance of natural attractions. Generally moderate, the climate provides sunny days …
SUB-SAHARA AFRICA
The average American has never heard of Upper Volta, Mali, or Guinea-Bissau and probably is not interested. The peoples of Sub-Sahara Africa are mostly black but are anything but …
AFRICA
Americans travel to Africa in relatively small numbers. Egypt’s antiquities hold the greatest appeal. Some 155,000 Americans went there in 1981. In that year about sixty-three thousand Americans visited …