Kate Turkington visits one of South Africa’s most charming villages tucked away in a valley amid some of Mpumalanga’s most spectacular scenery.

Winchester Mansions in Beach Road, Sea Point has had a revamp and is definitely worth a visit.

Mount Grace is nestled among the Magaliesburg Mountains, a piece of paradise that will literally leave you breathless and not because of the altitude either.

If you’re game for exciting game drives mixed with nature’s night-time quiet, then Simbavati is for you.

Down in south-west Colorado, not far from Four Corners, where Utah, Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado meet, lives a cat in a hat called Nate Funmaker.

South African Airways has made its first non-stop flight to China. A specially branded SAA Airbus A340-600 landed in Beijing on Wednesday morning, opening up a strategic transport route between Asia, Africa and South America.

South Africa's world-renowned events and lifestyle offerings have struck a chord with the Indian traveller eager to experience a unique destination with a range of choices to suit every budget, says Tourism Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk.

The Villa Zest Boutique Hotel in the Cape Town suburb of Greenpoint has been voted the trendiest hotel in the world in the TripAdvisor Travellers' Choice 2012 Best Hotels Awards.

The deployment of 350 newly trained immigration officers at OR Tambo International Airport over the festive season was an overwhelming success, says Home Affairs Director-General Mkuseli Apleni.

Helped on by being provisionally named one of the New 7 Wonders of Nature, Cape Town's Table Mountain drew a record number of visitors in December, with 116 000 people taking the cable car trip to the top.