Innholdsfortegnelse for June 2021 i Getaway

THE WINE SHOW 3–5 June Johannesburg, you’re up next! Experience some of the best wines South Africa has to offer at this exhibition. Find your favourite newcomer or go down memory lane with some wines you’ve enjoyed in the past. 10times.com/wine-show WINTER OF WANDER 10 June Durbanville Hills wine estate outside Cape Town has been hosting a monthly Winter of Wander series of food and wine evenings paired with their Collector’s Reserve range of wines. This month it’s the turn of Northern Portuguese cuisine, with the flavours of Namibia and Peru upcoming. whatsonincapetown .com/post/ winterwander-durbanvillehills/ COMRADES MARATHON 13 June The 90km down run is scheduled to start at the Pietermaritzburg City Hall, finishing at the Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban. comrades.com…

1 SPARE SUNGLASSES, no one wants to experience snow blindness. 2 SPARE GLOVES, ALWAYS! 3 WATER, of course, but a flask of something warm, too. 4 SNACKS... you burn immense calories while climbing. When you’re at that altitude, your digestive system starts to shut down so you need simple carbohydrates, things that are easily digestible. 5 CAMERA.  I’ll have my phone, another camera and sometimes a GoPro as well. 6 LIP-ICE AND SUNCREAM  7 SPACE BLANKET  just in case the you-know-what hits the fan.…

LIME BURNERS The word kalk is Dutch for ‘chalk’ and comes from the community of lime burners who mined deposits of limestone in the area. They baked the stones in large kilns to form a powder that was added to sand to make mortar. MANILA STEPS In 2018, the steps leading from Boyes Drive to the old graveyard on Quarterdeck Road were renamed the Manila Steps, in honour of Kalk Bay’s Filipino community. People from the Philippines had started settling in Kalk Bay as far back as the 1830s. Some of their descendents still live there today. WHALING STATION Between 1806 and 1860, before the railway line opened Kalk Bay up as a commercial fishing hub, the village served as a whaling station. But with declining whale numbers in the…

Situated in the malaria-free Waterberg in Limpopo, Tintswalo Lapalala is a family-friendly lodge comprising just seven luxury tented suites with private plunge pools, including a two-bedroom family suite. Environmentally conscious, the lodge is operated off the grid, presenting a sustainable wilderness and safari experience within a 44 500h reserve. The whole expanse of the game-rich reserve offers seclusion and a variety of wilderness experiences for the family, including daily game drives and guided bush walks, as well as a children ʼ s activity programme. Excursions are undertaken to wildlife breeding programmes, the comunity-based Lapalala Wilderness School and to an iron-age site to view artefacts and Bushman rock paintings. With 37km of pristine river frontage throughout the reserve, there ʼ s ample opportunity to fish or swim in the rapids of…

June 5, 1832 The young writer Victor Hugo was strolling in Paris when he witnessed angry Parisians manning the barricades as they were fired upon by king Louis-Philippe’s soldiers. Hugo made his escape but the moment stayed with him, becoming the inspiration for his novel (and later hit musical and film) Les Misérables. June 7, 1934 The world’s most famous duck, Donald, made his first appearance in the Walt Disney cartoon The Wise Little Hen, based on the fairy tale of The Little Red Hen. June 9, 2008 American baseball player Ken Griffey Jr hit his 600th career home run, becoming only the sixth player in the entire league to accomplish this feat. June 16, 1963 Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space. She was launched into…

It was 2am and I was wearing every item of warm clothing I had, plus a onesie loaned from Roam Game Reserve ʼ s general manager, Abigail de Swardt. Yet it did little to help with the frigid July temperatures in the Karoo and nothing against the clench of concern in my gut. When it ʼ s dark and you ʼ re alone on a 5 300h reserve, every shadow looks like a predator. Especially after you ʼ ve spent most of the day locating a displeased female cheetah. Although I was quite aware that cheetahs pose little threat to us bipeds, uMusa had just been relocated from Rietvlei Nature Reserve near Pretoria, and was not used to humans on foot. The image of her face looking down from the…

The sharp sting to my earlobe was the first indication that something had gone horribly wrong. The ants were supposed to be on the outside of my bee suit, not the inside. But that was not how things were working out. Army ants are ferocious predators who bring down prey hundreds of times larger than themselves by swarming over their victims like Black Friday shoppers in an American mall. They are even rumoured to be able to kill humans. Their very effectiveness at murdering everything in their path has forced them into a nomadic lifestyle, and following every hunt, they must break camp and migrate to a new location, lest they outstrip their resources and starve to death. They do not build a shelter – they don't have time to…

Daewood drives this “piesang Surprise”, an old VW Passat, on the pier. ‘It’s not mine. I’m borrowing it. The owner’s had it for 25 years but he lets me use it, see, because the engine is mine: a 1300 Golf.’ Daewood’s engine has been powering this classic for 17 years. He’s here to do a spot of fishing for dinner. Any luck? ‘What? No, man. Only just arrived. Got to feed the kids.’ Sibusiso Matinyenya, a seamstress from Zimbabwe, sells handmade clothing and bags, alongside her husband’s art, in between the Olympia building and Portuguese restaurant Beira Mar. Her husband was selling the items door-to-door in Simon’s Town when he met the owner of Beira Mar, who offered him the space to sell his goods. They have been selling there…

Scan the QR code with your phone or fill in the entry form for Tintswalo online at getaway.co.za/ competitions. Entries close on 30 June 2021. THE PRIZE Two readers will each win two nights for two people sharing at Tintswalo Lapalala in the Waterberg, including all meals and two safari activities per day. TERMS AND CONDITIONS The prize is valid from 1 July 2021 to 31 May 2022, subject to availability and excluding peak season. The voucher is not transferable, resaleable or refundable for cash. The prize does not include transport to and from Lapalala Reserve. For further T&Cs, see winner’s voucher and getaway.co.za/competitions.…

Every winter holiday of my childhood was spent in our farm butchery. The school break would fall right in the middle of hunting season, which meant making biltong and sausages and harnessing the bounty of the season as best we could so as to enjoy good meat for the next year to come. Salt, naturally, played a vital role. A large 50kg sack of coarse salt stood in the corner of the cold room for the preservation of buckskins. It wasn't the cleanest of salts on the market. Frankly, it stank. But it did the job when we needed to cure and tan the karosses. One year, my best friend from boarding school came to visit for the holiday. We were quite the entrepreneurs, Anna-Marie and I. During the term,…

FATHER’S DAY 20 JUNE Every year in June, we celebrate dads, or those paternal figures in our lives who tell bad (dad) jokes at the dinner table The first Father’s day was celebrated on 19 JUNE 1910 Father’s Day has its origins in America, invented by Sonora Smart Dodd, who wanted a day to honour her father, a veteran who raised his SIX CHILDREN as a single parent. The traditional Father’s day gift flower is a red rose (no, he doesn’t need another tie!) Father’s Day in most countries pales in comparison to the shenanigans of the German Men’s Day. Männertag (Men’s day) is traditionally celebrated by loading wagons full of beer and heading into the wild. Hordes of men (Herrenentagspartie) head to the nearest park and spend a drunken…

Olifants, I'll never forget the view overlooking the river at sunset. – Dawn Fouche Berg-en-Dal, because of the beautiful landscape, the abundance of wildlife and the chance to see the Big 5 and wild dogs. – Tanja Haser Lower Sabie area. The diversity there is amazing and it's fantastic for seeing the Big 5. – Paul Tosio Orpen Dam. You always see the most beautiful wildlife and the birding is fantastic! – Vicky Botha Northern parts – it's quieter and sightings are not overcrowded. They may be few and far between but they're always spectacular. – Tasha Atkinson The entry gates, because beyond that is just awesome! – Carolyn Holgate Berg-en-Dal. I love the atmosphere, the surroundings, hills and waterhole at the camp. – Kirsty Jacobs…

My mission is to kiss the summits of the highest mountains on all seven continents. I ʼ ve climbed four of the seven highest peaks : Kilimanjaro in Africa, Mount Denali (formerly named Mt McKinley) in North America, Mount Elbrus in Europe and Aconcagua in South America. Everest will be number five and, hopefully by the end of the year, Mount Vinson and Carstensz Pyramid in Papua New Guinea will be on the list, too. What I’m hoping for with this expedition is to climb Everest and Lhotse, the highest and fourth-highest mountains in the world, one after the other. I decided to embark on this fun little challenge because there are only 40 or 50 people in the world who have done it but no one from South Africa.…

Wild Dog Tracking is an adventure with a difference. It’s purposeful and engaging. More so, I gained a deep appreciation for those working on the ground – the dedicated men and women who keep the dogs as safe as possible. And doing this, then returning to a hot shower, and a mouthwatering menu at a top class safari lodge – who could ask for more? There are opportunities to track wild dogs as a volunteer, student or on a Conservation Safari with Wildlife ACT who are priority species monitors at Mkuze Game Reserve, Hluhluwe iMfolozi Park, Tembe Elephant Park and Manyoni Private Game Reserves. 087 802 1231 wildlifeact.com…

Once the sheep are sold or shorn, and the farm trails have been hiked, biked and fully explored, it's time to dip into the utter Karoo magic of Ganora, beginning with that spiky mountain that seems to loom from every angle. As the highest peak in the Karoo, the Compass-berg is an enormous free-standing jut of ironstone 2 504m high. It effortlessly demolishes all preconceptions that this dry heartland is flat. Sometimes called the Matterhorn of the Karoo, the Compassberg was the defining navigational landmark back in the days of explorers and frontier folk. It is also home to a unique butterfly, the Compassberg skolly. Often placed in the foreground of a typical Compassberg landscape are rows of large blue-green plants, hundreds of them. THE STOEP is covered in flagstones…

Do This Hike in Echo Valley Above Kalk Bay, beginning from Boyes Drive, is a breathtaking trail overlooking False Bay. The trail branches off to the Boomslang Caves that you can just squeeze through into the belly of the mountain. It’s not for the claustrophobic. Fishing If you like to spend relaxed afternoons gazing at the sea, grab a space on the pier wall and set up your fishing rod. You probably won’t catch anything but you’ll meet wonderful people. Swim in the tidal pool in front of the Brass Bell, or head to neighbouring St James where the tidal pool, backed by the iconic beach huts, is a favourite for locals to take a dip in summer or winter. Shop for antiques, fashionable clothing and decor The vast range…

Whether you’re a full-on foodie, avid entertainer or total newb whose most extravagant dish is slightly burnt toast, the newly revamped Food&Home is about to be your sous chef, party planner and mentor. EXPECT: Fundamentals that will build your basic know-how and sharpen your skills Mouth-watering recipes for every occasion Restaurant guides and foodie adventures worth taking ... and everything in between (even sneak peeks into the homes of your fave chefs)…