Summer has truly arrived in sunny South Africa!!
The beaches are packed, the Nedbank Golf Challenge is underway at Sun City and our cricketers are getting ready to whip the Ausies (we hope).

Click on the images below to see 360º virtual tours of Clifton Beach and the Gary Player Golf Course at Sun City in the Pilanesberg.

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Who cares about economic meltdown and the property market when you can spend Christmas in South Africa.

For those of you following the Nedbank Golf Tournament, here’s an interactive map of Sun City.

You are welcome to explore the course and resort by clicking on the icons.

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Virtual Tour of Pinnacle Point

After watching Tiger Woods’ heroics at the US Open earlier this month, I was scanning the sport channels to find out if he did any damage to his knee.

In the process I saw an insert on our very own Pinnacle Point Golf Course near Mossel Bay (on the famous Garden Route) – and it was one of those ‘proudly South African’ moments.

Although we created a virtual tour of the resort about a year ago, I’ve never been there myself and haven’t had the time to really study the virtual tour, but after the TV insert I just had to – and WOW!  what a course indeed.

Dawie van Wyk, our photographer who created the virtual tour, is a scratch golfer and says:

“Although I didn’t get a chance to play this magnificent course, I was privileged enough to drive around the course and experience some of the most remarkable holes I’ve ever seen.

There are seven cliff-hanging holes, four of them play across the ocean, offering some of the most exciting and challenging tee shots in the world.

I believe that these amazing scenes have the potential of making Pinnacle Point the most photographed golf course in the world…..”

I agree.

If you want to see why Darren Clarke described Pinnacle Point as “the best golf course on the planet”, click here to view the complete virtual tour – or head over to our map section and explore the Garden Route.

keep your head down …..

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