Traveling in Southern Africa and trading here is a blog for the design minded adventurer in: Architecture, African furniture and Decor, Travel, Art, Photography, Fashion, Food, Cars, Wine, Current Trends and Events. We'll even cross the borders of South Africa periodically to bring you related stories from our neighboring countries on the continent of Africa.
He is no stick-in-the-mud when it comes to making friends with humans. The six-day-old pygmy hippo calf is filling the time of his doting carers after being rejected by his mother at birth. The 11lb baby was born last Thursday at a wildlife sanctuary in South Africa and requires round-the-clock care.
Some of jazz's most celebrated artists: Steve Tyrell, Lauryn Hill, Patti Austin, James Ingram, Mike Stern, David Weckl, Donald Harrison, Ron Carter, Lenny White, and Kevin Mahogany to name but a few; arrived in South Africa to preform at Cape Town's International Jazz Festival. An occasion that has grown into a hugely successful international event since its inception in the year 2000.
Melodytrip has ranked this proudly South African event as No.4 in the world, outshining events such as Switzerland's Montreaux Festival and the North Sea Jazz Festival in Holland. The festival’s winning formula of bringing more than 40 International and Local artists to perform over two days on five stages has earned it the status of being the most prestigious event on the African continent.
Born in 1971, “Artist Henk Serfontein’s work shows his particular interest in the road movie genre, more specifically the films by German director, playwright and photographer Wim Wenders. Wenders’ stories are of average people on journeys of discovery, exploring the routes of the world in search of love, wealth and happiness, or simply themselves. These narratives have a direct influence on Serfontein’s work, where his paintings evoke the grittiness and nostalgic framing so apparent in these movies. Serfontein travels the margins and makes his silence heard whilst everyone sleeps. After dark is when it all happens.” Veronica Blaine
From Johannesburg, South Africa to the Seychelles is approximately 4 hours and 50 minutes. North Island lodge where designed by South African architectural team, Silvo Rech and Lesley Carstens. It hit the headlines in May 2011, for being the site selected for the royal honeymoon of The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.
Established in 1989, by George Elphick and Nick Proome a partnership that’s lasted for 23 years; today, Elphick Proome Architects (EPA), has seen their multi award winning company currently located in Westville, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa grow to approximately a 60-person practice.
The Ayanda™ range of certified Tanzanite is exceptional in its colour, clarity and quality and is sourced directly from Tanzania. The Ayanda™ – The Queen of Tanzanite range often combined with diamonds, has introduced the rare and exquisite blue to deep violet stone to a market that is passionate about classic and contemporary design.
NEW YORK - Models like Fei Fei Sun, Anna Selezneva, and Joan Smalls are getting their hair done backstage at the Michael Kors show during New York Fashion Week for Spring/Summer 2012. FashionTV catches the man himself, Mr. Kors, for an exclusive interview. "For Fall, it was a very New York centric show and New York is, you know, very kind of hard edged, and fast and its all about steel and concrete. As much as I love New York, I like to get out of town when I can," he says. In past years, his favorite spot to escape to has been South Africa. He consistently returns to the special spot where he gets his inspiration for color and texture. He is truly inspired by all of Africa. "As much as I love New York, I like to get out of town when I can." There is no black in this collection, but it's still done in a very streamlined manner, Kors says, with animal prints, patchwork, dyeing and much more. View the second video of the actual fashion show itself by pressing the read more button below left after this video....
The 2012 UCI Mountain Bike World Cup series will be comprised of 10 events, in nine countries, over three continents. It all kicks off at the Cascades MTB Park, situated on the edge of Pietermaritzburg in South Africa, on March 16 and finishes at Hafjell in Norway on September 12.
Kelvin Purchase gets a first look at some of the changes being completed
for the DH of the RockyRoads UCI MTB World Cup Pietermaritzburg 2012 - Watch Video.....
For up to date action from the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup 2012 there is a live streaming of all the races onwww.redbull.com/bikeand www.redbull.tv.
Production of the Aston-Martin sports car commenced in 1913. Its founders, Lionel Martin and Robert Bamford, had sold Singer, Calthorpe and GWK cars until after World War I. (The Aston part of the name is derived from the Aston Clinton Hill Climb. Bamford had been very successful there, driving a Special with a Coventry-Simplex engine installed in an Isotta-Fraschini voiturette chassis).
The Zambezi Queen is unique in that it's a sophisticated, elegant experience that has not lost the essence of all that is uniquely African. There can be few natural wonders as synonymous with Africa's raw wilderness as the great Chobe River. These waters divide Namibia's Caprivi Strip from Botswana's Chobe National Park, and its exotic banks boast one of the densest populations of wildlife on the African continent. Teeming with life, this National Park sprawls across some 11,000 m of lush African bush, and is home to the largest populace of elephants in the world – currently estimated at roughly 120 000. Along with the elephants, prides of leopard and lion, huge groups of buffalo, waterbuck, roan, eland, sable, giraffe, and, if you are lucky, one of the rare puku, can also be seen. In the river itself watch out for hippo and crocodile, and keep your binoculars at the ready for spotting a rich selection of bird life.
Kapama Private Game reserve’s 13,000 hectares have all the big game of Africa with 42 mammal species and approximately 350 bird species. This equates to vast natural diversity and includes the famed 'Big 5' - lion, leopard, elephant, buffalo and rhino. In this post, we’re going to feature Kamp Karula and Kapama’s Wellness Center.
Boogertman + Partners Architects was established in 1982 and today operates out of four regional offices in Johannesburg, Pretoria, Cape Town and Durban, and two international offices in Mauritius and Dubai. The lead architect is Bob van Bebber, a graduate from Wits University, Johannesburg.
Boogertman + Partners Proposed New Hotel Development Sandton Johannesburg
