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from '24 things not to miss [in South Africa]'
'Table Mountain' cableway
Cape Town's most famous landmark!
South Africa: The Rough Guide (Rough Guide Travel Guides S.) (Paperback)
by Barbara McCrea
from '24 things not to miss [in South Africa]'
Cape Point
The treacherous rocky promontory south of Cape Town, where many ships have come to grief since the fifteenth century.
South Africa: The Rough Guide (Rough Guide Travel Guides S.) (Paperback)
by Barbara McCrea
from '24 things not to miss [in South Africa]'
Whales!Regularly visiting the southern Cape Coast, whales often approach surprisingly close to the shore.
South Africa: The Rough Guide (Rough Guide Travel Guides S.) (Paperback)
by Barbara McCrea
from '24 things not to miss [in South Africa]'
Game Reserves
South Africa: The Rough Guide (Rough GuideTravel Guides S.) (Paperback)
by Barbara McCrea
I wanna see an {Otocyon megalotis} !!
The Bat-eared Fox
Recently also spread into the Cape Peninsula and towards Cape Agulhas.
Apart from localized persecution by farmers, it is still common.
South Africa: The Rough Guide (Rough Guide Travel Guides S.) (Paperback)
by Barbara McCrea
8.19.2006
New South African coat of arms
'Diverse People Unite'
Official Languages
Afrikaans, English, Zulu, Xhosa, Swati, Ndebele, Southern Sotho, Northern Sotho, Tsonga, Tswana
and Venda
Cape Town coat of arms
Cape Town is the tourism capital of South Africa, receiving the largest number of tourists of any South African city.
The area is also famous for its unique plant life: fynbos (an Afrikaans word meaning "fine bush"), a shrubby vegetation type similar to other winter rainfall shrublands, in which proteas are prominent and characteristic and which occurs nowhere else but the Cape coastal belt, the adjacent mountains and some isolated inland mountain tops. Fire is a necessary stage in the lives of almost all fynbos plants. In readiness for fire, most proteas retain their seeds on the bush for at least one year, a habit known as serotiny. They do this in structures which resemble the original flowerheads. In some species these structures are strikingly beautiful and long-lasting, which accounts for their use in dried floral arrangements.
Lastly, it is famous for the fine wines produced in the areas of Stellenbosch, Paarl and Robertson. When leaving Cape Town, you first pass the suburbs and Cape Town International Airport. After getting over the mountains you enter the Karoo in the north-east or the coast regions in the north and east.
8.07.2006
41-story Giant!
Rising 650 feet, 1180 Peachtree is the most significant skyscraper built in Atlanta for over a decade. The second LEED® Core and Shell Gold high-rise office building in the world, 1180 Peachtree redefines the skyline of midtown Atlanta.
1180 Peachtree also stands out in terms of its sustainable design. Behind the unusually shaped facade of glass and metal is office space that is flooded with light through ten-foot, floor-to-ceiling glass. The building also uses a water-management system that decreases storm water by covering half of the roof with absorbing vegetation. The remaining storm water, in conjunction with the condensation collected from the building's mechanical systems, is channeled to an underground storage vault and used for irrigation, bypassing the need for city water
South African Exhibit -Jimmy Carter Center Atlanta, Georgia
SOUTH AFRICAN CONSTITUTION, ADOPTED 1996
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