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In Paarl and surrounds you are not only spoilt for choice with a great array of wineries. Our eateries and restaurants will also leave your mouth watering.
Have a look to see what special experiences they offer you as visitor.
The summer mood is undeniably here in Paarl!
Our wineries and restaurants offers visitors top class picnic options to laze away the warm days right here in the beautiful Paarl
Le Bonheur is truly one of the Winelands gems that has to be visited in the Paarl region.
Their mission is to promote the conservation of the Nile crocodile and other reptiles through education and to provide an engaging experience that nurtures respect for crocodiles and other south African reptiles
Le Bonheur offers some exciting reptile adventures to visitors this summer.
Here is our round-up of special offerings to drink, do, eat and see in Paarl during October month.
Pinotage Day Celebrations in Paarl
Pinotage is a grape variety that was created in South Africa in 1925 by Abraham Izak Perold, the first Professor of Viticulture at Stellenbosch University.
Perold was attempting to combine the best qualities of the robust Hermitage with Pinot noir, a grape that makes great wine but can be difficult to grow.
Perold planted the four seeds from his cross in the garden of his official residence at Welgevallen Experimental Farm and then apparently forgot about them. In 1927 he left the university to take up a job with KWV co-operative and the garden became overgrown. The university sent in a team to tidy it up, just as Charlie Niehaus happened to pass by. He was a young lecturer who knew about the seedlings, and rescued them from the clean-up team.
The young plants were moved to Elsenburg Agricultural College, grafted onto newly established rootstock and the one that was doing best was selected for propagation and was christened Pinotage.
The first wine was made in 1941 at Elsenburg.
14 October is International Pinotage Day and Paarl Wine Route producers will be celebrating this special grape.
Spring is in the air and Paarl is blooming away! Have a look at our great active events happening during the month of September and diarise them immediately. You are certainly spoilt for choice!
Spring is in the air and Paarl is blooming away! Have a look at our great entertainment and event happenings during the month of September. You are certainly spoilt for choice!
The annual Waterblommetjie Festival in Paarl is back on Saturday, 2 September, and visitors can expect a jam-packed day filled with fabulous wines, live entertainment and obviously this amazing local gourmet treat.
National Women’s Day is celebrated annually on 9 August and is a South African public holiday. In line with the above event I did some research and found out that more than 20 000 South African women of all races attended a march on the Union Buildings in protest against the proposed amendments to the Urban Areas Act of 1950, commonly referred to as the “pass laws” in 1956. They protested against the country’s pass laws that required South Africans defined as “black” under The Population Registration Act to carry an internal passport that would limit their rights during apartheid. The women stood silently for 30 minutes and then started singing a protest song that was composed in honour of the occasion: Wathint’Abafazi Wathint’imbokodo! (“Now you have touched the women, you have struck a rock” or its latest incarnation: “you strike a woman, you strike a rock”). This song has come to represent women’s courage and strength in South Africa and was followed by 14 000 petitions that were left at the door step of the prime minister at the time.
See what it’s like to step back in time at the Grande Roche Hotel in Paarl South Africa where history and modernity collide in the best of ways.
“Nobody does luxury better than Africa.”
Friends confided this opinion to us during our month in Cape Town. Seriously? Better than Europe? We had our doubts that luxury hotels in Africa were actually better than the rest of the world.
Within moments of arriving at the Grande Roche Hotel in Paarl, we knew that our friends had spoken the truth.