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A Cape Town band's tribute to The Mother City
Monday 23 August 2010
Check out this short music video for a colourful look at Cape Town's best spots being enjoyed by its beautiful locals! This capetonian band took their camera everywhere and shot some cool scenes on a budget of pretty much nothing but as you can see, there's no need for filters and photoshop in here - this place really is this amazing - enjoy!
An extreme golf hole in South Africa
Thursday 19 August 2010
Welcome to the world's most extreme golf hole! It's the longest par 3 in the world and from the tee (only accessible by helicopter) it takes the ball 20 seconds to come to rest on the Africa-shaped green 430 metres below.
This picture gives you some idea of the view that awaits you at the 19th tee but have a watch of this short video below to see how the 2008 Open Champion Padraig Harrington got on...
As if each of the 18 holes being designed by a different pro golfer wasn't enough, the Legend Golf & Safari resort in Limpopo topped it off with the creation of a 400 yard par 3 which involves a helicopter ride just to get to the tee. From the top of the Hanglip Mountain you'll need a pretty good set of eyes to see your ball land but make the green and you'll stand a good chance of making it onto the leaderboard alongside names like Lewis Hamilton, Morgan Freeman and Sergio Garcia!
Former West Indies cricketer Franklyn Stephenson has somehow managed a birdie on this beast but we reckon that even finding your ball once you get off the chopper and onto the fairway would be an achievement.
Whether you know your albatrosses from your anti-shanks or you're of Mark Twain's opinion that "golf is a good walk spoiled", you've got to agree that this is a golf hole to shake things up a bit.
A whale of a time in Cape Town
Wednesday 18 August 2010
This is not what you expect when you're out on your boat enjoying the sunshine and beautiful views in Cape Town's Table Bay! The capetonian couple got a bit more than they bargained for when they were out whale watching last month...
Southern Right Whales come to the South African coast between July and November to mate and the males have some pretty flamboyant ways of attracting the ladies' attention but even still, this was a rare occurrence indeed and a big shock for the couple on board. They escaped totally unhurt but the beast from the deep did some pretty major damage to the mast, and yet they insist that the incident won't stop them from continuing their boat trips in search of whales.
On a total change of tack, the Pepper team are keeping their fingers crossed for all of you out there who are anxiously waiting for A-level results tomorrow. Best of luck to everyone!
Keep checking back here for more videos, news and travel tips about all things South African...
Thank you!!!
Tuesday 11 May 2010
As I'm sure many of you would have noticed, we have been entered into the Barcalys One Small Step competition. This is a competition for UK businesses where you can win £50k for your business. An amount that would go a long way in allowing us to move Pepper forward. if you haven't checked out our entry yet, please have a look, and back our idea! But punting our entry isn't what this blog is about today. It is about some of the comments that we have been getting by all of you out there! Reading some of this stuff is really inspiring and makes us really stoked to be doign what we are doing. Thank you to everyone!! A few of them are below for your reading pleasure:
Amazing vibes coming from the unbelievably inspiring website!
Pepper is making the African travel experience easier than ever before!Local knowledge is unbounded so you get to see parts of the country no 'run of the mill' travel company or traveller see.
hardworking,dedicated and friendly folk Pepper is a serious force in the market place offering a niche experience
Pepper Experience is a unique take on the current, staid travel undustry. Congratulations on a wonderful idea and business model!!!
What more could you want? Pepper is perfection!!
You guys were the latest force for change in my life. Rock on.
Exceptional service, exceptional management, exceptional experience! Wishing you guys the very best of luck
The best company ever!!!
Pepper truly shows off South Africa's talent and beauty. If only everyday was a holiday to travel with them!
Unbelievable tour company,run by truely unbelievable fun loving people!!!!
go pepppperrrrrrrr!!!!!!!! this is sooooo exiten!!!!!!!u better win!!!!!!! xxxx
Pepper is the best travel company I have ever come accross, their attitude towards south africa and life in general is inspiring!
AMAZING!
Pepper is just the best - my favourite travel company. Kind regards, Spuds
Wonderful business!
Great idea and website. I have no doubt there are great things ahead for your business.
These guys are amazing! Just spent 3 months with them in SA and loved every minute. Good Luck Pepper, after all the hard work you deserve it!
Friendly, vibrant and passionate team! Wishing you guys all the best and more!
What an awesome team running the whole PEPPER experience - well done!
thinks what you are doing is super professional and an experience of a lifetime, keep up the brilliant work Pepper
Wonderful! such a brillian idea...you can feel the enthusiam, positivity and energy that you all have bursting out of you in your website! well done, keep going, you are in my thoughts!
Good luck lads. All the best - Escape the City!
Really great business, run by very passionate people!!! Highly recommend :)
You guys rock! Well done - an awesome company that explores the best that South Africa has to offer! Keep it up, we are all behind you - make us proud. Love from CT x
Amazing concept, coupled with extra-ordinary staff!! I back it with everything I have! Pepper thanks for an out of this world experience!
There is not just a WANT for this kind of thing but a NEED for it. Well done to the brain child(ren)! I wish you all the best!
This is such a great business, you guys have an amazing thing going with Pepper and I wish you all the best
My daughter has just returned from a brilliant three month holiday where she had the experience of a lifetime. Well done Pepper
Winter is coming to Cape Town
Tuesday 4 May 2010
So it’s that time of the year again in Cape Town when some of us are actually sneakily looking forward to the coming winter. I know it sounds like sacrilege in a city in which the mountain and sea and outdoor living is a religion, but there is a lot about winter that you just have to love.
I love fireplaces as that constantly smell of burnt wood and the fact that you can drink about 10 cups of tea a day and no one thinks you are strange. I love taking a walk in Newlands forest with a vague risk that it might start pouring with rain. I love going to Rafiki’s and watching the Super 14 rugby with hundreds of others who found a good enough reason to venture out in the cold. I love drinking red wine around a dinner table with friends listening to the rain outside. I love soup. I love driving through the huge piles of brown leaves. I love thick coats, scarves and a pair of cosy Ugg boots. I love the way that sometimes Table Mountain just disappears for days on end and then all of a sudden you wake up and the sun is out and the mountain is there, and just for that one day the whole of Cape Town pretends it’s summer again. We are out and about. Climbing the mountain, cruising through markets, shops and street side cafe’s, we even go to the beach and watch the sunset. We have braai’s while the rugby is on and walk around in flip flops, shorts and t-shirts. Sometimes we sit around the pool and even just watch the mountain and the sun. On days like this its about the white wine and sunglasses.
This I have to say is favourite part of winter in Cape Town, the days when we are reminded for a brief moment of just how good the summer is going to be. This excites us. Without winter summer would almost just become boring and that essential winter season is coming.