Explore the Mother of all pictures to win a holiday in the Mother of all Cities

We’re at it again.

Breaking new ground in photography and teaming up with Go2Africa to bring you the coolest competition Cape Town has ever seen.

I won’t bore you with the amount of pixels involved this time (to be honest, I’ve simply lost count), lets just say it’s the biggest project we’ve been involved in – and that’s saying something in itself.

If you haven’t seen one of these pictures before, it’s quite easy to enjoy: ZOOM Baby ZOOM. (and click “Full Screen for the best effect)

If you head over to Go2Africa , you can explore this image and two others in a ’scavenger hunt’ competition where the winner will walk a way with the following RIDICULOUS prize  - for two:

• Return flights from a selection of international cities around the world to Cape Town

• 3 Nights’ accommodation at The 12 Apostles Hotel and Spa
• 3 Nights’ accommodation at The One & Only Luxury Resort
• 3 Nights’ accommodation at Franschhoek Country House and Villas

• Car Rental for the full 9 days

• Cape Town guided City Tour
• Cape Point & Peninsula Guided Tour
• Winelands Guided Tour

• VIP Pink Flamingo open-air cinema tickets, Cape Town’s only rooftop cinema

• Meal for 2 at multi-award winning Jardine Restaurant
• Meal for 2 at the classically vintage Boo Radelys Bistro & Bar
• Meal for 2 at one of Cape Town’s premier African cuisine and entertainment venues, Mama Africa Restaurant
• Meal for 2 at meat-lovers paradise, Carne SA

So have a peak at the picture, click on Full Screen and zoom in as far as you like, but head over to Go2Africa to explore the other 2 images we created – one of Camps Bay and one of Franschhoek – and find the hidden logo’s to win.

enjoy!

Bob Skinstad in jail and in 360º

With so many sport start being in the news for all the wrong reasons, it’s refreshing to see someone like Bob Skinstad, ex Springbok Rugby captain, using his celebrity status to do some good.

Bob recently locked himself in a make-shift jail cell in the V&A Waterfront in an effort to create awareness and raise funds for the BobsforGood Foundation.

I paid him a visit and created this 360º from the inside of his ‘cell’.

Click and drag the interactive image to get a feel of the space and click on the Full Screen button for a higer quality image.

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Celebrating Nelson Mandela’s 20 years of freedom

Today is the 20th aniversary of Nelson Mandela’s release from prison.

We celebrate it by sharing this 360º image of his jail cell on Robben Island in the hope that it will remind us all of what was sacrificed for the freedom of a nation.

As Matt Damon depicted in the recent movie ‘Invictus’ – standing in Nelson Mandela’s Robben Island jail cell is a humbling experience.

On this day we celebrate 20 years of freedom of a man who showed the world that forgiveness is possible and practical and beautiful.

All we can do,  is keep on holding him up as an [...] Continue Reading…

Sneak Peak at the next set of Hyper Definition Pictures

2010 has started with a BOOM here at Virtual Africa.

We’re literally flooded with requests to create virtual tours of guest houses, hotels and restaurants and we’ve even been commissioned to create a bunch of Hyper Definition Images (including Johannesburg and Pretoria).

After five years of risking everything and working like mad men, it seems like the world has suddenly put a stamp of approval on our dreams – and it feels GREAT!

To everyone who posted, shared or emailed our Biggest Picture of Cape Town post to friends and family, a big thank you from all of us here at Virtual [...] Continue Reading…

Elephants at Rhino Post

We recently had the privilege to do some virtual tour updates at three of the four Isibindi Africa Lodges.

We’ll share some of the shots via Twitter (@Daily_360) in the weeks to come, but for now, just enjoy the view from the Rhino Post Safari Lodge deck.

Click on the Full Screen button (top right) and then on the video icon – to see  the Ellies do their thing.

Rhino Post Safari Lodge is about 20 km north of Skukuza, in the Kruger National Park and the main attraction (apart from seeing the Big 5, enjoying the tranquility, eating great food …..) [...] Continue Reading…

Another Hyper Definition Image of Cape Town

We have been overwhelmed by the response to our recent Hyper Definition Image of Cape Town and appreciate so many people taking the time to write comments and send us mails.

As a show of our appreciation, we’ve dusted off another Hyper Definition Image we took from Signal Hill earlier this year and converted it to our new (slicker) viewing format.

It’s technically less impressive (2 gigapixels vs the 9 gigapixels of the more recent image), but I still like it more…….even though the stadium wasn’t done yet.

Remember: for the full experience, click on the full screen button (bottom right) and [...] Continue Reading…

Highest definition picture ever taken of Cape Town – how we did it.

When you work in the virtual tour business, you have the privilege to witness technological advances almost daily.
But every once in a while these changes combine to create an effect that can only be described as a Game Changer.
Today we are proud to share such an culmination of technological advances.

For a lack of a better word: we’ll call it a Hyper Definition Virtual Tour , but before we get to the technical details, have a look at it:

Virtual Africa presents: The highest definition picture ever taken of Cape Town.

It might not look like much on first glance, but try [...] Continue Reading…