Gene Sloan, USA Today"The country (South Africa) remains an incredible bargain despite a sharp drop in the value of the U.S. dollar vs. the South African rand the past year."
Yaminah Ahmad, Rolling Out Weekly
"Snuggled in between the Indian and Atlantic Oceans, you'll find the wondrous tranquil province called the Western Cape. And within this magnificent locale is Cape Town - the perfect place for city slickers who need the nightlife, but crave a botanical haven.Today, this melting pot of culture is evident in exquisite foods, music and art."
Rick Shively, Recommend
"An excellent exchange rate, the most modern tourism infrastructure in Africa and a broad product inventory appealing to mid-level and high-end travelers all make South Africa a hot destination to sell."
J. Michael Nemeth, Passport Magazine"The exchange rate of the South African rand to the dollar is so good, even the most opulent dining experience can be relished for a mere fraction of what you would pay at home."
Jason Cochran, Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel
"In recent years, the South African rand has plunged in value.making for sensational buys. Add that value to deep, last-minute discounts and you've got the makings for a trip of a lifetime, budget-style."
Peter Mombaerts, Private Pilot
"South Africa is a little-publicized aviator's paradise with uncluttered skies, sweeping vistas and a cherished tradition of aviation laced with nostalgia.The weak - and ever weakening - South African currency contributes to an attractive training environment."
Michael Algar, International Travel News
"An excellent introduction to South Africa's Winelands, Constantia did not prepare us for the remarkable scenic beauty we would encounter during the next three days.
Rachel L. Swarns, New York Times Johannesburg Bureau Chief
I decided to find an experience that was considerably more intimate than the typical tourist junket. I knew I had found it when I learned that a small, but growing number of foreigners were spending the night with middle-class and working-class families in Soweto to see the rhythms and routines of the new era firsthand. White South Africans, many of whom have never set foot in the black communities so close to their doorsteps do not know what they are missing. At Mrs. Mabitsela's house, we talked until midnight and then I collapsed in my bed. In the morning, I woke to the familiar sounds of a house stirring from sleep. I settled in at the table for a nice breakfast of tea, hot wheat cereal and fat cakes, which are fried dumplings, and some easy conversation. And when Mrs. Mabitsela started singing again, all felt right with the world.
Dave Matthews, Dave Matthews Band, Time Magazine
I go back to South Africa at least once a year, sometimes twice, and usually for a month. And probably, I'm guessing, I'll spend more time back there as I get older South Africa gives me a perspective of what's real and what's not real So I go back to South Africa to both lose myself and gain awareness of myself. Every time I go back, it doesn't take long for me to get caught into a very different thing. A very different sense of myself. It's a melting pot, southern Africa. You find these cultural collisions that result in art and music, and it's pretty amazing.
Will Smith, actor, InStyle magazine
(interviewed following the filming of Ali) "I felt like God lived there--like God visits everywhere else, but he LIVES in Africa."
National Public Radio News, Cape Town
Kenneth Walker
In addition to touting itself as a safe destination, officials are also pointing out that the local currency, the rand, is at record lows against the dollar and the euro, which means of course that tourists' money will go a lot farther in South Africa.
Murphy Coles (American Traveler)
I think, basically speaking, this could be one of the safest places that you could be if you're in that type of a tenseness about traveling throughout the world. I wouldn't want to be any other place right now.
Chris Matthews, Host of CNBCs Hard Ball
In this time of global trouble, I send you this postcard of hope. It's the holiday picture I carry in my heart of a thousand South Africans of every race enjoying a jazz concert together and, with it, this beautiful land's resurgence of national vitality. What if peoples learn to coexist, even share a national life together? What if the forces that unite and bind societies outwit those pulling them apart? Here on a two-week visit with my family I saw that "what if" in action.I possess no grander souvenir of this spectacular Cape of Good Hope than the vivid, palpable memory of men and women, black and white, sitting together on a warm summer evening and smiling to the seductive optimism of Louis Armstrong.
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