The conference participants and accompanying persons are invited to attend the welcome cocktail party, as well as the conference excursion and the conference banquet.
In addition, accompanying persons can attend the exciting social programme for accompanying persons.
Monday, 1 February 2010
This welcome cocktail party for participants and accompanying
persons will take place from 18:15 to 20:00
at the conference centre.
Cost: R0
Wednesday, 3 February
2010: PENINSULA
TOUR
This is an unforgettable
journey through beautiful scenery with spectacular views of the
Cape Peninsula. You will be picked up at the Breakwater Lodge and
driven by luxury coach southwards, along the Indian ocean seaboard,
past some of the most breathtaking sea and mountain views, to
Boulder Beach in Simons Town. This is the nesting place of a large
colony of African penguins which started with one breeding pair literally
out of the blue in 1985. We will hear about the penguins’ traumatic
life story, due to a catastrophic oil spill which took place some
years ago. We then continue our journey southwards, eventually
entering the Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve where we will have an
aperitif at the most south-westerly tip of the African continent,
the Cape of Good Hope on the Atlantic Ocean.
Cape Point will be our next stop, a time to breathe in deeply,
taking in the beauty of the rugged and famous cliffs and the great
wide ocean, which Bartholomew Diaz rounded for the first time in
1488 and named the "Cape of Storms". Indeed, the ship wrecks,
littered around the Cape, inspired the saga of the "Flying Dutchman".
Sir Francis Drake experienced the Cape quite differently, as he
described it in 1600 as "the fairest Cape and the most stately thing
we saw in the whole circumference of the globe". Looking towards
the South Pole, the warm Indian Ocean to our left and the cold
Atlantic Ocean to our right, have a quite different appearance in colour.
By
this time you might be hungry, we will have a lovely meal at the Two Oceans Restaurant a view of False Bay and its large population of Southern Right whales, orcas, sharks and seals.
After lunch we will visit the Cape Point Ostrich Farm, and then return to the Breakwater Lodge in Cape Town.
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08:15 |
Meet at the Breakwater Lodge. |
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08:30 |
Leave by coach. |
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09:00 |
Photo stop on the top of Boyes Drive. |
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10:00 |
Arrive at Boulders Beach to enjoy the colony of African penguins. |
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11:00 |
Depart for the Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve. |
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11:45 |
Aperitif at the Cape of Good Hope. |
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12:30 |
Lunch at the Two Oceans Restaurant at Cape Point. |
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14:30 |
Leave Cape Point. |
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15:00 |
Visit Cape Point Ostrich Farm. |
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16:00 |
Return on a scenic drive via the Atlantic seaboard. |
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17:30 |
Arrive at the Breakwater Lodge. |
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Cost: |
Included in the conference fees for conference participants. |
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R555 for accompanying persons (lunch and drinks included). |
Friday, 5 February 2010:
DINNER AT CATHARINA’S ON STEENBERG ESTATE, CONSTANTIA
Enjoy a
stylish dinner at one of the oldest wine
estates of the Cape.
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18:15 |
Depart by coach from the Breakwater Lodge. |
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19:00 |
Sundowner aperitif in Catharina’s garden. |
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20:00 |
Banquet dinner at Catharina’s. |
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23:00 |
Return by coach to Cape Town. |
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23:30 |
Arrive at Breakwater Lodge. |
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Cost: |
Included in the conference fees for registered conference participants. |
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R555 for accompanying persons.
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