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    Your Cape Town Weekend: things to do from Friday 24 to Sunday 26 May, 2013

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Blaauwberg – Postcard from Paul

Fish Hoek beach huts – Flickr pic of the day

This colourful photo of beach huts at Fish Hoek was taken by our Cape Town. Live it. Love it. group member Flowcomm aka Tara Turkington.

Into the green at Kirstenbosch – Flickr pic of the day

This beautiful photo of the lush Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens was taken by our Cape Town. Live it. Love it. group member Pieter de Vos aka Night is Coming. Pieter says, “The thing I love most about Cape Town is its natural beauty.”

Cloudy Cape Point – Flickr pic of the day

This photo of Cape Point was taken by our Cape Town. Live it. Love it. group member Bertalan Danko. Bertalan says, “This was taken from the old lighthouse – I wasn’t allowed inside the lighthouse itself.”

Loeries finalists can pack for Cape Town

Loeries awards trophies The entries are in, the judges have taken stock, but the final results will be a closely guarded secret until the awards festival begins in Cape Town from September 25-27. With less than two months to go, it’s time to plan your party schedule in South Africa’s most beautiful city.

Cape Town surfing – A Cape Town Tourism photo essay

Whether you’re a beginner or a pro, Cape Town has waves to suit all types of surfers. According to www.capetownactivities.co.uk, the more experienced riders will find the waves they’re looking for on the Atlantic Ocean, Fish Hoek or the infamous Long Beach.

St George’s Square – Flickr pic of the day

This interesting photograph of a man setting up his paintings in St George’s Square was taken by our Cape Town. Live it. Love it. group member Siobhan Baxter. Siobhan says, “St George’s Square is a place that always seems to be buzzing with activity. There are a lot of different things to see there, from the colourful jewellery to the interesting wooden African figures and other sorts of interesting items.”

The Rat Pack swings in to Long Street

A wax statue of Frank Sinatra at Madame Tussauds, Las Vegas. Photo courtesy Honey Bunny The originals took Hollywood and Las Vegas by storm in the mid-1960s; now the Rat Pack is bringing swagger and class to Cape Town this winter on August 3-22, 2009 at the Newspace One Theatre. You can expect to see Sammy, played by Dantanio Goodman, Dean, played by Matthew Stewardson, and Ol’ Blue Eyes, performed by American impersonator Patrick Tobin. Audiences can look forward to hearing songs such as I Only Have Eyes for You and Fly Me to the Moon performed by a live band.

Last light in Durbanville – Flickr pic of the day

This beautiful sunset shot was taken by our Cape Town. Live it. Love it. group member Stiaan Schoeman aka Quantum Theory. Stiaan says, “It is the best time of the year for all people who enjoy landscape photography.”

Cape Town tops in international tourism survey

The V&A Waterfront, photo courtesy slack12 In a recent survey conducted by SA Tourism Update magazine, Cape Town emerged at the top of the list of attractions in Southern Africa. One hundred overseas tour operators participated in the survey, which was completed last week, including 33 from North America, 25 from the UK, 16 from Germany and 44 from the rest of Europe.

Keen cyclist wins Cape Town A-Z competition

Shaheed Peters is the winner of the A-Z competition Cape Town Tourism is happy to announce that the lucky winner of the A-Z competition is Shaheed Peters. Shaheed has won three nights’ accommodation at the Grand Daddy Hotel in Long Street. We asked you to tell us what makes Cape Town special for you and why it’s the place to be in 2010. You had to choose a letter of the alphabet and a word starting with that letter (eg A is for Aquarium, B is for Beaches), and tell us in 50 characters or less why you love that particular feature of the Mother City.

Have you entered our Cape Town. Live it. Love it. winter flickr competition?

Here are a few of the latest entries for our Cape Town. Live it. Love it. Winter Competition. Enter your own photographs of Cape Town in winter and stand a chance to win an iPod Nano! All you have to do is join our Cape Town. Live it. Love it. Winter Competition group and add your photo to the group pool.

Khayelitsha kid – Flickr pic of the day

This lovely photo of a child in Khayelitsha township was taken by our Cape Town. Live it. Love it. group member Lesley Goodman aka leschick. Lesley says, “I have been working with Boost Africa and their ‘Keep a Child in School’ initiative.”

South African homeless street soccer: video

Check out the latest talent in Cape Town: South African homeless street soccer.

After the surf – Flickr pic of the day

This beautiful sunset shot of surfers was taken by our Cape Town. Live it. Love it. group member Gaby Gang aka cosmopolitan photography at Milnerton Beach. Gaby says, “The beaches around Cape Town are a surfer’s paradise. Milnerton Beach is a famous surf spot.”

Now and then

Cape Town is constantly evolving – particularly in the lead-up to 2010 as new infrastructure is being built at a rapid pace. If you look at old images of Cape Town, you’ll see just how much the Mother City has changed over the past few decades.

Olive Green Cat ‒ an ode to creative Cape Town

I am often stopped mid-sentence, mid-meeting, mid-shopping, mid-flight and mid-just-about-anything by someone wanting to know where I got my unique wedding ring from. To say that it has become a bit of a talking point is putting it mildly. I am always only too happy to rave about my favourite Cape Town creatives – Olive Green Cat. Weird name, I know, but it says something about this brilliant design trio: unique, tongue-in-cheek, contemporary, individualist and, above all, passionately Capetonian.

V&A Waterfront – Postcard from Paul

Bontebok on the beach – Flickr pic of the day

This unusual picture of bontebok on the beach at Cape Point was taken by our Cape Town. Live it. Love it. group member Andy Roberts aka bokafrica. Andy says, “On my first trip to Cape Town several years ago I was captivated by its magnificence within minutes of leaving the airport. The first glimpse of the mountain, blasts of floral colour and the endless stretch of mountains that steer you down to the southern suburbs and beyond… I was hooked.”

Kirstenbosch reflections – Flickr pic of the day

This beautiful photo of the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden was taken by our Cape Town. Live it. Love it. group member Jacques de Vos aka Day Is Coming. Jacques says, “I took this photo in Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens on the first sunny day after a really bad storm we had in Cape Town.”

Bloubergstrand beauty – Flickr pic of the day

This beautiful photo of a sunset at Bloubergstrand was taken by our Cape Town. Live it. Love it. group member Ryan Hasselbach. Ryan says, “On the day that this photograph was taken I was acting as a tour guide for two Australian friends who had come out to South Africa for my wedding.”

Cape Town weighs up economic impact of visiting cruise liner

The QE2 motoring out of the Cromarty Firth in Scotland. Photo courtesy Calum Davidson Cape Town Tourism has reacted with caution to the news that Dubai World Constituency’s cruise ship, the QE2, is destined for Cape Town Harbour as a floating hotel with an 18-month residency over the 2010 FIFA World Cup period. The national Department of Tourism has decided not to oppose the application for the berthing and the Transnet Board and the National Ports Authority will now make a final determination.

The 31st Annual Loerie Awards – everything you need to know

The Camps Bay strip will become the Loeries-by-day. Photo courtesy Ian Junor The long-awaited Loeries Festival Weekend in Cape Town is set to take place from Thursday September 24 to Sunday September 27, 2009. The aim of the awards is to honour and celebrate the year’s best brand communication work in a creative and inspirational environment – and, of course, to party in the process!

Behind the scenes at Madama Butterfly – A Cape Town Tourism photo essay

Madama Butterfly is a touching love story about a beautiful geisha woman, Butterfly, and an American naval officer, Lieutenant Pinkerton. I recently got the opportunity to shoot behind the scenes at the Madama Butterfly opera at the Artscape Theatre in Cape Town.

Soccer safari: part three

South Africa Homeless Soccer training camp To get to the final stop of the Coffeebeans Routes soccer safari, we cruised through Cape Town’s southern suburbs and into the Philippi farming area, coming to a stop at a nondescript security gate. On the other side, I was to find the real gem of the day.

Constantia lane – Flickr pic of the day

This beautiful photograph of a tree-lined avenue in Constantia was taken by our Cape Town. Live it. Love it. group member Ryan Michael. Ryan says, “This photo was taken in early May this year on a drive we took through the affluent suburb of Constantia.”

KELP vuvus make a uniquely Capetonian noise at the Ubuntu Festival

Cape Town Tourism invited the Kelp Environmental Learning Project (KELP) to be part of our Shout Brigade at the Ubuntu Festival where we continued with our citizen activations by promoting the Live it! Love it! LOUDER! Campaign. Cape Town Tourism endorses the KELP vuvuzelas as they meet the requirements of our social responsibility commitment to the World Cup and help us to create hype and excitement in Cape Town by providing a more creative and uniquely Capetonian noise-making device.

Footballs for Fun

Sergio Dos Santos signed footballs which were given out at the Ubuntu Festival As a host city for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, Cape Town is doing everything it can to ensure not only that the World Cup itself is a resounding success, but also that the citizens of the Mother City continue to reap the benefits long after it’s over. As part of this plan, Cape Town Tourism supports the Footballs for Fun initiative. According to their website, Footballs for Fun is “a charity that aims to get 100 000 footballs to the children of Africa by 2010 ... while at the same time generating funds to support charities working for the welfare of children in Africa.”

Spoken-word spectacle

Multi-award-winning poet Marc Bamuthi Joseph incorporates dance and music into his performance. Photo courtesy Aaron Stock The annual Urban Voices Poetry Festival draws huge crowds and this year promises to be no different. The festival, which takes place on July 26 in Cape Town, boasts local and international poets and is guaranteed to feature inspiring and innovative spoken-word performances.

Hout Bay Harbour by night – Flickr pic of the day

This beautiful night-time image of Hout Bay was taken by our Cape Town. Live it. Love it. group member Mikey Alex. Mikey says, “I was hanging out with a few friends one night, watching the sunset and drinking mixers.”
 
 

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