New mobile phone app: "Madiba's journey"!

South African Tourism and the Nelson Mandela Foundation launched the "Madiba-inspired tourist attractions" map, which encourages tourists from around the world and South Africa to travel the country and walk in the footsteps of Nelson Mandela, in 2014. The map has now been developed into a GPS-enabled mobile phone app to further enhance visitors’ experiences in South Africa. The app uses location-based services and features tourist sites as well as general places of interest, including Mandela's post-presidential office at the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory in Johannesburg, the Nelson Mandela Statue at Union Buildings in Pretoria, Nobel Square at the V&A Waterfront, Robben Island and Pollsmoor Prison (all in Cape Town) and Qunu in the Eastern Cape, where Madbia was laid to rest.

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The app "Madiba's journey" is now available for download in English from the Apple iTunes store (iOS devices) and the Google Play store (Android devices). It will soon be available in other languages, including Afrikaans, Zulu, Xhosa, Dutch, French, German, Italian, simple Mandarin and Portuguese.

Africa: Poachers use geotagged safari photos to track endangered animals

Please always keep in mind while on safari that the photos of endangered animals you take and share online might also contain the exact co-ordinates to the picture. This will allow tech-savvy poachers to come in after dark and track the animal. Please switch off the geotag option/gps feature on your smartphone or gps-enabled digital camera while out in the bush. #savetherhinos

A sign of our times. Makes me sad! pic.twitter.com/PoEnwFSHgE
— Eleni de Wet (@Eleni_dW) May 4, 2014

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Western Cape: Africa’s first officially branded geocaching tour

update (09 July 2013): According to to a tweet from Wesgro, the geocaching tour will be launched in mid August 2013 in all 6 regions of the Western Cape.

Wesgro, the official Desitnation Marketing, Investment and Trade Promotion Agency for the Western Cape, will soon launch Africa’s first officially branded geocaching tour and competition. According to Nils Flaatten, CEO of Wesgro, the geocaching tour will be developed in partnership with official geocaching site, geocaching.com, and will include 16 caches hidden in different locations in Cape Town, the Winelands, the Karoo, West Coast, Overberg, the Garden Route and the Klein Karoo. Awesome! For more info, especially about the geocaching competition, listen to the interview with Nils Flaatten below!

The essential guide to South African Wines

The current demarcation system of the South African Wine Industry often has little or no reference to the wines produced in these areas; neither does it indicate accurate geographical location. Thus, wine producing areas are presented in smaller demarcated areas, referred to as “Pockets”. The Pockets group together wineries based on their terroir (from available terroir information) with names indicating geographical similarity.
The essential guide to South African Wines presents the reader with a selection of the premium South African wine producers and explains why wines from one Pocket taste different from those of another Pocket.
The Guide takes the reader to the winery, armed with everything he/she needs to know — geographical and soil descriptions, viticultural techniques, winemaking methods, flagship wines, maps and GPS waypoints — to heighten the wine experience.
The partnership of local subject experts and internationally acclaimed wine writers and judges brings the latest research information to the reader. The easy-to-understand format, including explanatory text boxes for technical terms, demystifies the intricate world of fine wines and makes wine appreciation accessible to every wine enthusiast. [src.: cheviot-publishing.com]

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