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Minggu, 06 Mei 2012

South African Flavours: Food and Drink to Sample

It's impossible to talk about South African cuisine without rhapsodising about the country's legendary viniculture, and impossible to mention South African wine without paying tribute to the Fairest Cape. Cape Town's Mediterranean climate lends itself to the production of superb sparkling wine, Chardonnay and sauvignon blanc, as well as outstanding red Bordeaux-style blends and the country's home-grown cultivar, pinotage (a hybrid of pinot noir and hermitage).
Port, sherries and world-class pudding wines can also be found in the Cape. However, most wine lovers will stay in Cape Town for just a couple of days before heading deep into the Cape winelands. Most of them are flocking to one small town, Fraschhoek as the name implies this was the home of the original French settlers in the cape, and they introduced not only their wine-making genius, but also their cuisine to the southern hemisphere.

You can enjoy Michelin-style dining at a different restaurant every night over a week-long stay in Franschhoek, accompanied by wines as good as any you'll find in Europe, at a fraction of the price, and under a cloudless sky illuminated by the Southern Cross. Dinner doesn't get much better than this.

Many travellers to South Africa in search of great deals on hotels and once-in-a-lifetime holiday memories set straight out on safari. Once night falls, you can experience wildlife most intimately. A leopard prowling in the darkness; a pack of hyena vanishing into the shadows when the vehicle's headlights surprise them; the cries of nocturnal birds and frogs, and the crash and splash of a startled hippo; the scent of wild dogs giving a sudden pungency to the dusty night air.

All of this is guaranteed to get you a raging appetite for dinner. If you have some reservations about some of the animals that you've admired that day appearing as part of your campfire feast, these will soon vanish. Especially once you've tasted tender ostrich, gamey warthog and succulent wildebeest.

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