September 9

Snow Falling on the Winelands

September 9, 2013

On the last few days of August, as Spring Day approached, snow began to fall on the peaks across the Western Cape. Locals raced up Table Mountain to photograph themselves in the snow – doing everything from tonguing the white powder to stripping and mooning the camera. People like us raced up to the Cape Winelands to behold the white peaks that for just about every other week in the year are bare and brown against the sky.

Being the final week of winter, it was as though the season was not quite ready to give up and wanted to give us one last show. A snow show.

While the rest of our Marketing Team headed to the Grande Roche Hotel in Paarl for wine by the fire, our two videographers gloved up and spent a few hours capturing the snow on the upper peaks of the Du Toitskloof Mountain, between Paarl and Worcester, about 70 kilometres from Cape Town.

Take a look at the video and photographs from the trip below:

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Did you know: The Du Toits Peak is the highest peak in the Western Cape within direct sight of the ocean.

Photographing Du Toitskloof

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Take a look at the snow on Table Mountain in this Facebook photo album by No Danger Diaries.

Contact one of our travel consultants for more information about booking a trip to the Cape Winelands.


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About the author 

Tamlin Wightman

Tamlin has been exploring, writing about and photographing Africa ever since her first job as a photojournalist for Getaway Magazine. She's lived on an island, eaten with lions, sailed catamarans in the Indian Ocean, tracked wild dogs with Kinglsey Holgate, and white water rafted down the Zambezi and has kept just about every airplane ticket that has crossed her hands.

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