Expresso Show features Kay and Monty Vineyards
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SABC 3’s Expresso Show recently featured Plett’s Kay and Monty Vineyards in The Crags, a wine farm in the Plett Winelands.

George Airport brings you to the heart of the Garden Route. With regular direct flights from Johannesburg, getting there has never been easier. This coastline offers a ...more


10 bizarre things on SA beaches in 2015
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With a a coastline stretching more than 2 500km from Namibia to Mozambique, it's understandable than in 2015, we witnessed some pretty bizarre incidents one these shores.

Among these were:

1. When a message-in-a-bottle was discovered along the Garden Route

When a 13-year-old Angela Harris filled a ...more


Caspar Lee meets a fan at Plett beach
Joshua Pieters, Rebecca McConnell and Caspar Lee at Sanctuary Beach, Plettenberg Bay

Rebecca McConnell, a self-confessed huge fan of Caspar Lee, received an early Christmas present this December when she was lucky enough to bump into the YouTuber in the car park at Plett's Sanctuary Beach.

Caspar, who had been having breakfast with his niece and nephew Hannah and Max, emerged from the ...more


Surfing in Plett, with a dog!
Surfing in Plett with a dog

The summer fun begins as Plett’s local videographer Stuart Brink of Stuart Brink Films gets his board out and shows us how to relax and enjoy the waves on Sanctuary Beach, Plettenberg Bay. There's even a cameo appearance from his dog at 1:01.

Surfing in Plett, with a dog!

Watch more Stuart Brink Films videos at Vimeo and YouTube.


Plett Summer Times 2015
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The Plett Summer Times Magazine for 2015 includes information about sporting events, festivals, music acts, shows and many other events over the 2015 December/January festive season.


Plett Summer 2015 Competition
Sign up to the Plett Tourism mailing list and stand a chance of winning a Plett Tourism beach kit pack including a ‘Plett it’s a feeling’ branded umbrella, towel, sun glasses, cap and backpack!

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Red Frogs to the Rescue for Matrics
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Matric exams are finishing but there’s one more challenge for matriculants – perhaps more of a ‘hurdle’ for parents – RAGE.

Here in the Western Cape we are most familiar with Plett Rage, but Rage also happens in J-Bay, Margate, Umhlanga, Ballito and Lake Kariba (Zimbabwe).

It’s a time of celebration ...more


Yanga’s time with the NVT team
Yanga describes his time at Natures Valley Trust

This is it, when one reaches adulthood they have to leave their family to make a start for themselves. They take with them their values and teachings to share with the world. The family name will forever be with them; it is a symbol they carry with them as a mirror to show their upbringing. This is me and the ...more


Let the party begin… but Ragers urged to not lose their heads when letting their hair down
Plett Rage Student Festival

While thousands of matrics are getting ready to let their hair down and celebrate the end of their school careers, behind the scenes of South Africa’s biggest student festival organisers and other role-players are working around the clock to ensure yet ...more


Milky Way over Robberg – Time Lapse Video
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Plett's night skies are a beautiful sight, especially to the south over the sea where there is less light pollution. 

David Skok took this time lapse video of the Milky Way over Robberg during January 2014.

Take a minute to sit back and enjoy the show that the heavens put on over this 24 hour period.

 


Rare twin monkeys born at Monkeyland
Florence gave birth to twins, Tia and Tamera, at Monkeyland primate sanctuary just outside Plettenberg Bay. Photo: Paula Hallam.

Monkey business leads to double trouble. At least, that is the case at Plettenberg Bay's Monkeyland where Florence, the vervet monkey, recently gave birth to twins.

This is very rare indeed. According to the primate sanctuary’s spokesman, Lara Mostert, since Monkeyland opened ...more


Slack-pack like a pro, Plett style
The Plett Trail Slack-pack like a pro, Plett style 

NOTE: The activity described below is no longer offered by the service provider.

If you’re a keen hiker who enjoys a few little luxuries along the way, then the new Plett Trail is not to be missed, as Louise Liebenberg discovers.

You might think ...more