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Cultural Travel
IF THE ABOVE ARE NOT ENOUGH TO SATISFY ANYONE’S APPETITE FOR FESTIVALS
AND CARNIVALS, YOU CAN STILL ALSO CONSIDER:
• the Prickly Pear Festival held in February/Match in
Uitenhage (Nelson Mandela Bay Metro);
• the Up The Creek music festival held on the banks of the
Breede River near Swellendam;
• the Lambert’s Bay Kreef Festival (crayfish/rock lobster) on
the West Coast in March;
• the Rotary River Festival on the banks of the Vaal River in
southern Gauteng;
• the Rand Show over Easter in Johannesburg;
• the 6-day long Scifest, or National Festival of Science,
Engineering and Technology, in Grahamstown in March;
• he Tonteldoos Country Festival of country music and
mampoer held near Dullstroom;
• the AfrikaBurn event held on a farm in the Tankwa Karoo
in April;
• the Witblits Festival (a home-brewed liquor that was
outlawed for many years) at Philippolis in the Free State in
April;
• the Cape Town Pride, Johannesburg Pride and Mother City
Queer Project LGBT festivals;
• the Pink Loerie Mardi Gras held in Knysna in May;
• the Port and Wine Festival held in Calitzdorp in the
Southern Cape;
• the Dullstroom Winter Festival (Christmas in Winter) that
includes fly-fishing events held in July;
• the Vryfees arts festival in Bloemfontein;
• the Bushveld Festival held in Lephalele (Ellisras) in the
Waterberg region;
• the Standard Bank Joy of Jazz festival in Johannesburg;
• the Hantam Vleisfees, a meat festival in Calvinia, Northern
Cape;
• the Cellar Rats Wine Festival held in Magaliesburg,
Gauteng;
• Arts Alive held in Johannesburg during September;
• the Aardklop Arts Festival in Pitcherfstroom, North West
in September;
• the Southern Cross Music Festival at Mooi River, KwaZulu-
Natal;
• the Woodstock Music Festival at Hartbeeshoek, North
West;
• the Boertjie Kontreifees, an agricultural and arts festival
held in Bultfontein, Free State;
• the Gariep Kunstefees (arts festival) in Kimberley in
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