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World Cup Soccer Cape Town Tour
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Worldwide Speciality Travel provides World Cup Tour Packages in Cape Town
Introduction
Situated on the southwestern tip of Africa, Cape Town and the Western Cape is recognised as one of the most beautiful places on earth. Offering a range of attractions, breathtaking sights and endless activities, it is a year-round holiday destination with friendly people, a mild climate and rich cultural heritage.
The province is made up of six tourism regions: Cape Town, Cape Overberg, Cape Winelands, Cape Garden Route & Klein Karoo, Cape West Coast and Cape Karoo and strums to a heady, irresistable pulse that is uniquely its own.
And with a host of activities on offer, you're spoilt for choice. From nature reserves, scenic drives and hiking trails to adrenaline rushes in the form of the highest commercial bungee jump in the world at Bloukrans Bridge, world-class shark cage diving or white water canoeing on the Breede River. In addition, we're a golf lovers paradise sporting some of the best golf courses in the world!
If Culture and Heritage is what you're after, then there's no shortage either. Walk past loud blubbery seals sunning themselves on the pier and take the ferry to Robben Island to visit liberation icon and former South Africa president, Nelson Mandela's prison cell. Marvel at the ancient rock art in the Karoo and explore the completely preserved historic mission stations at Elim and Genadendal. Then join the boisterous, mad-cap minstrels dancing in the Cape Minstrel Carnival and dont even think of missing out on a township tour and the opportunity to experience traditional Cape Flats life and African culture and cuisine, for yourself.
If it's business as usual for you then Cape Town and the Western Cape, winner of the 2008 Travel Awards for Africa's leading destination, answers all your business needs. A convention, conference and investment hub, the destination consistently wins 90% of all conferences it bids for.
Attraction
Cape Town and the Western Cape - an attraction unlike any other!
Heard of the Big 5? Well we have the Big 6!
Six icons that form part of the Western Cape's 'Must See' attractions are the V&A Waterfront, a unique shopping and entertainment environment, the Table Mountain Cable Way which affords you the best 360 degree views of the Cape as you whizz to Table Mountain's summit, world renowned Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens, Robben Island once the prison cell of Nelson Mandela, the world's greatest liberation icon, Constantia Vineyards, the oldest wine making region in the southern hemisphere and the rugged cliffs and fynbos covered vistas of Cape Point, the south westernmost tip of Africa.
BUT the Western Cape is so much MORE than just 6 attractions!
In Hermanus where whales frolick in rich turquoise coves, along the Garden Route where adrenaline junkies launch themselves from the worlds highest commercial bungee jump, in Bo Kaap also known as the Cape Malay Quarters where a hundred thousand brightly garbed minstrels joyously dance in a new year, at Cape Aghulhas where two mighty oceans embrace and greet, in Touws River where majestic lions, leopards, buffalo, rhinos and elephants still roam and Calitzdorp where the finest port outside of Madeiro is brewed - HERE life is sweet and filled to abundance with the attractions of Cape Town and the Western Cape.
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Worldwide Speciality Travel provides World Cup Tour Packages in Cape Town
Green Point Stadium
The stadium is to be located in Green Point, between Signal Hill and the Atlantic Ocean, close to the Cape Town city centre and to the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront, a popular tourist and shopping venue. The stadium will have a capacity of 68,000.[2] The stadium will be connected to the waterfront by a new road connection, Granger Bay Boulevard, and will be surrounded by a 60 hectare urban park.
In the World Cup, it will host five first round matches, one second round, one quarter-final and one semi-final.
The stadium replaces an 18,000 seat stadium of the same name.
The previous stadium, which was demolished in 2007, was a multi-purpose stadium used mainly for football matches, and was the home ground of Santos Football Club and Ajax Cape Town at different points. It also hosted music concerts including Michael Jackson, U2, Metallica, Paul Simon, Robbie Williams and the 2003 46664 Concert for the benefit of AIDS victims.
The stadium will contain 68,000 seats for the World Cup. 55,000 Seats will remain permanent and 15,000 modular seats will be re-used in the deconstruction of the existing Green Point Stadium and other social investment opportunities, leaving opportunities for corporate suites to be retrofitted.
The stadium architecture focuses on the exterior appearance as well as on the user experience for the visitor once inside the stadium bowl. The exterior appearance is largely defined by a sweeping silhouette, not to be in competition with the horizontal datum line of Table Mountain, and the façade, made of a stretched fibre-glass mesh and designed as an articulated surface that makes the building appear almost scaleless.
The roof is designed as suspended roof plane. It focuses attention downwards onto the playing field. At the same time, the underside of the roof surface, hovering above the spectators, operates in a way similar to the façade. The translucent mesh skin under the steel cable and truss structure will act as a luminous disc during days of sunlight and will transmit the colour and atmosphere of the day into the stadium interior. The double skin design of the roof further makes it possible to accommodate (unsightly) services therein and, for example, avoid the use of pylons for the floodlighting. It fulfils an important function as far as noise attenuation is concerned. The roof structure is designed as an acoustic "body" with its own internal volume. The principle of utilising the air space inside the body of the roof as a noise buffer is one of the compelling simple and active design principles applied to the stadium. The key to this principle is the requirement that the "inner" (lower) and "outer" (upper) surface of the roof structure must have different densities and therefore display different acoustic performance characteristics.
The current design foresees and ETFE (fibreglass-like) cloth membrane, which is partly permeable. This "breathing" softer inner skin disperses sound waves and, since it is not a hard surface, absorbs sound into the body of the roof. The outer (top) skin is currently designed and budgeted as a fixed glass skin, which provides a hard resonant surface which reflects sound waves back into the body of the roof. Through the sloping surface of the roof, sound waves are diffracted back against the soft inner skin membrane, where they are further dispersed. |
