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Cape Town
the most Beautiful City in the World!
Travel
review and Tripadvisor have again named
Cape Town
as the best desintination in the world for 2012.
Cape Town has been named the Best World City in the 2008
Telegraph Travel Awards. South Africa also came in the top three in
the Best Non-European Country category at the awards.
Cape Town was recently voted one of ten cities in the world
that are most likely to become a global sustainability centre by
2020.
Cape Town has been named Africa’s Best City (US Travel and
Leisure Awards); Best Travel Destination in Africa and the Middle
East (US Travel & Leisure Magazine); and One of the World’s five
Bluest Sky Destinations (expedia.co.uk).
In addition, City Mayors, a global local government
think-tank, recently named Cape Town Mayor Helen Zille the world’s
top mayor. The mayor of Zürich was named second best mayor.
Cape Town Sunset with Table Mountain lit up at
night
Sunny Cape Town with Table Mountain & miles of white beaches
Cape Town 2010 Stadium progressing well!
Cape Town with Table Mountain,
the 2010 Soccer
Stadium & the famous Waterfront
Undisturbed Scenery, Blue Cranes our National Bird & Carpets of Flowers
Kirstenbosch Flowers - Protea & Strelitzia
Southern Africa is endowed with an incredible
diversity in habitats and wildlife. On the Southern tip of this
region lies the Cape floral kingdom which is considered to be second
only to the tropical rain forests in the number of species. Southern
Africa has the largest number of species (13) of land tortoise and
the region is home to no less than 300 mammal, 900 bird, 130 frog,
130 snake, 250 lizard, 1,500 tree, 24,000 flowering plant and an
estimated 80,000 insect species! A great list indeed! The Region
boasts viable populations of the fastest (cheetah),
tallest (giraffe)
and biggest (elephant)
of earths land mammals.
