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The Best Attractions In Port Elizabeth

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Port Elizabeth or The Bay is one of the major cities in South Africa; it is situated in the Eastern Cape Province, 770 km east of Cape Town. The city, often shortened to PE and nicknamed The Friendly City or The Windy City, stretches for 16 km along Algoa Bay, and is one of the major seaports in South Africa. Port Elizabeth is the southernmost large city on the African continent, just farther south than Cape Town. Port Elizabeth was founded as a town in 1820 to house British settlers as a way of strengthening the border region between the Cape Colony and the Xhosa. It now forms part of the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality, which has a popul...
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The Best Attractions In Port Elizabeth

  • 1. Shamwari Game Reserve Port Elizabeth
    Shamwari Game Reserve is located 75 km outside Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa. It has been voted the World's Leading Safari and Game Reserve and Conservation Company for many consecutive years.An essential focus is the management, development and rehabilitation of an ecosystem that has been returned to a more natural condition after many years of farming. In 2005 the reserve was awarded the Global Nature Fund Award for Best Conservation Practice. The British TV series of Safari School was filmed here. The Animal Planet series titled Shamwari: A wild life was also filmed at the game reserve. The show highlighted what goes on behind the scenes at the reserve. The Born Free Foundation jointly funds a sanctuary at Shamwari that gives lifetime care to several lions and leopards that...
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  • 2. Kragga Kamma Game Park Port Elizabeth
    The Kragga Kamma Game Park is a small reserve within the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. One of the cheetahs featured in the movie Duma used to reside at Kragga Kamma. He died towards the end of November 2011 from kidney failure which is not unusual for wild cats in captivity. Leg 4 of The Amazing Race Australia included a visit to Kragga Kamma.
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  • 5. South End Museum Port Elizabeth
    Port Elizabeth or The Bay is one of the major cities in South Africa; it is situated in the Eastern Cape Province, 770 km east of Cape Town. The city, often shortened to PE and nicknamed The Friendly City or The Windy City, stretches for 16 km along Algoa Bay, and is one of the major seaports in South Africa. Port Elizabeth is the southernmost large city on the African continent, just farther south than Cape Town. Port Elizabeth was founded as a town in 1820 to house British settlers as a way of strengthening the border region between the Cape Colony and the Xhosa. It now forms part of the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality, which has a population of over 1.3 million.
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  • 6. St Augustine's Catholic Cathedral Port Elizabeth
    St. Augustine's Cathedral, also called the Catholic Cathedral of Port Elizabeth, is a Roman Catholic cathedral located on Prospect Hill in the city of Port Elizabeth, part of the Eastern Cape Province on the coast of the African country of South Africa. The first stone of the present Gothic structure was placed in 1861 under the impulse of Father Thomas Murphy; the church was finished and consecrated in 1866.The congregation follows the Roman or Latin rite, and the cathedral is the mother church of the diocese of Port Elizabeth , which obtained its current name in 1939 and received the status of diocese in 1951 through the bull Supreme Nobis of pope Pius XII. It is under the pastoral responsibility of Bishop Vincent Mduduzi Zungu.
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  • 10. St George's Park Port Elizabeth
    St George's Park is a multi-use park in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. The park is the oldest park in Port Elizabeth and most commonly associated with the St George's Oval cricket grounds located within the park.
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  • 11. Van Stadens Nature Reserve Port Elizabeth
    Van Stadens River is a river in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. The river mouth is located about 30km west of Port Elizabeth. The river was named after Marthinus van Staden, one of the area’s pioneering farmers. He was also among the first to plot a rudimentary track through the valley.The geology of the Van Stadens catchments is primarily derived from rock of the mid-Palaeozoic Era that formed the Table Mountain Group of the Cape Supergroup. The upper to middle catchment areas are characterised by high gradients indicative of steep gorges. Along the river, nutrient concentrations are naturally low. This is a result of the steep topography that prevents human activity like farming which would disturb the natural processes. The Van Stadens Wild Flower Reserve situated upstream ...
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  • 15. Prince Alfred's Guard Memorial Port Elizabeth
    Prince Alfred's Guard is an infantry regiment of the South African Army. As a reserve unit, it has a status roughly equivalent to that of a British Army Reserve or United States Army National Guard unit. The Regiment is located in the city of Port Elizabeth.
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