ANTIGUA

  FOR SUN AND FUN VISIT ANTIGUA

Head to Antigua if you're looking for something very British, very jet set - with three casinos, water sports galore and 365 white sand beaches to boot. St. John's, the nation's capital and a popular port, sports high-style boutiques, fine restaurants and exciting nightlife. Also a must: a visit to Admiral Nelson's Dockyard at English Harbour, once a major port for the British navy and now a yacht haven and national park. It's the hub of activity for Antigua Race Week, world class yacht racing and fun.

 

A small sample of the 390 white sand beaches you will find in Antigua. Every new beach seems better and more beautiful than the last one.

 
Be sure to try the local specialties. Like fiery Creole cookery. Spicy "jerk" chicken, pork and fish. Callaloo soup. Fried plantains. Rice and pigeon peas. Exotic fruits and vegetables. Fresh seafood. And, of course, rum-kissed drinks. Antigua offers visitors a special opportunity to indulge in a wide variety of shopping. You'll find everything from sophisticated international fare to handmade island arts and crafts. The local market in the south end of St John's is a riot of colourful fruits, vegetables and spices, and people haggling for them.

Buy delicious pineapples - Antigua's are considered some of the world's best.

 

Caribbean Tourism Organization

VANDERBIJLPARK

 The geographical centre of the Vaal Triangle. A modern industrial town, on the Vaal River, developed when Iscor erected a steel foundry in the area. 10 km from the town is a small airfield.

ISCOR TOUR
Africa's largest steel making centre. Foundry tour showing the entire steel making process from smelting to rolling of huge plates.

 Attractions and developments in this modern industrial centre on the Vaal River - where only 40 years ago "Iscor" erected a steel works; and named the model township after the corporation's first chairman. [1983]

 

SPORT
Sports facilities include swimming, tenpin bowling, roller-skating, golf and squash. Within the town are two recreational resorts with barbeque facilities and water sports. The nearby Vaal Dam provides a venue for power boating, sailing, and angling.

WINDSOR

 With a crucial position on the Detroit River, Windsor was an area of friction between British, French and American interests starting almost with the arrival of the first missionaries around 1640. The city possesses a fine university and attractive parks, especially Jackson Park with its sunken gardens, and Dieppe Gardens, right on the river.

 [1968]

THE MOTOR CITY OF CANADA
Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Top: Ambassador Bridge
Bottom: Ouellette Avenue

Art Gallery of Windsor. Three floors of galleries include impressive permanent and touring exhibits. (445 Riverside Dr. West: all year, daily except Mondays and holidays.)
International Peace Fountain. Located in the Detroit River, this floating fountain features constantly changing coloured water patterns. (Coventry Gardens: mid-May - mid-October, daily.)
Windsor Raceway. Top-class harness racing, drawing enthusiasts from both sides of the river. (10 km south on Highway 18: mid-October - March, Tuesday Sunday evenings.)

 

Destination Ontario

BURY ST. EDMUNDS

 This charming market town has much Georgian and medieval architecture, arranged on an original Norman layout. Bury (pronounced "berry") developed around its abbey (now in ruins but with pretty gardens) which was founded in AD 945 to house the shrine of King Edmund. St. Mary's Church, with its magnificent hammer-beam roof, is more noteworthy than the cathedral. Also worth seeing out are the 15-th century guildhall, the town hall, the Georgian playhouse, and the Queen Anne manor house, which has a large collection of watches and clocks.

Abbey Gateway. Angel Hill. Abbey Gardens.

 

DICKENSIAN ASSOCIATIONS

Before the abbey in Bury St. Edmunds is a sloping plain called Angel Hill, where Angel Hotel can be found. This was made famous by Charles Dickens as his character Mr. Pickwick stayed here in the novel The Pickwick Papers.

MEDORA

     The historic Old West town of Medora is the front gate to Theodore Roosevelt National Park, and quite an attraction itself. The famous Medora Musical lights up the Burning Hills Amphitheater nightly in the summer. Sunset playing across the Bad Lands compete with the professional cast for the audience's attention. Medora's boardwalks are lined with curio shops, shooting galleries, Western museums and authentic, preserved reminders of its rough-and-ready past, including saloons with swinging doors and the Roughrider Hotel where Teddy stayed.

 A popular family activity and a great way  to see the Bad Lands is a trail ride, which can vary from one hour to several days. Brimming with campgrounds, shops and 350 motel rooms, Medora is North Dakota's tourist spot. Where City Slickers Become Rough Riders. Bully Good Times in Medora!

North Dakota Tourism

KOROLEVU BEACH

 The South Pacific! The very name stirs the mind and excites the imagination. The allure of the South Pacific is still as strong today as it was hundreds of years ago when traders and adventurers first discovered the delights of this exciting and unique part of the world. The South Pacific is still one of the last great, undiscovered, frontiers of the world. The Fiji archipelago includes more than 300 islands in the Southwest Pacific Ocean. The main islands, Viti Levu and Vanua Levu comprise 85% of the total land mass. The larger islands are primarily volcanic in origin with high rugged peaks.

 "KOROLEVU BEACH"
Brilliant sunshine, swaying palms, and calm tropical waters combine to enhance this Island Beach.

 

Fiji enjoys a warm and pleasant tropical maritime climate without extremes of hot or cold. There is mild dry season from May to October with slightly higher temperatures November to April. English is the official language but Fijian, Hindustani and Chinese are widely spoken. Events and venues: National Youth Day (Mar), Fiji Invitation 7s (Mar), Carlton Brewery Fiji Golf Open (Jun), Constitution Day (Jul), Bula Festival (Jul), South Pacific Cup - Squash (Aug), Sugar Festival (Sep), Fiji Regatta Week (Sep), Fiji Day (Oct).

Pacific Tourism Organisation

GROOT CONSTANTIA

 Most of the surrounding farmlands have been converted into the residential area of Constantia, but Groot Constantia in Constantia Valley, the oldest wine-making centre in South Africa, is government controlled, preserved as a national monument. Early Cape Governor Simon van der Stel's homestead today houses antique furniture and paintings. The wine cellar, today converted into a wine museum, houses drinking vessels in glass, silver, copper and stoneware from Greek antiquity to the 19th century, and early wine-making processes may be seen.

 

Manor House * Old Wine Cellar * Vineyard * The Wine Cellar

 
Constantia wines, once sought after in the Courts of Europe, are still produced, grown, pressed, matured, bottled and sold on the estate itself. Wine may be purchased on the estate. Trailer tours of the estate available throughout the season. Regular craft market.

LAC LA RONGE

     At 336,200 hectares, this is Saskatchewan's largest provincial park. It encompasses a beautiful, forested region with some 100 freshwater lakes plus massive Lac La Ronge itself and a portion of the Churchill River, complete with whitewater rapids and waterfalls. Renowned for excellent sport fishing, canoeing and cross-country skiing.

 

LAC LA RONGE
Fisherman's Paradise - This 500 sq. mile lake consistently produces trophy-size lake trout, Northern Pike & Walleye

 

The community of La Ronge is a gateway to an exciting array of wilderness adventures. Enormous Lac La Ronge is surrounded by a myriad of smaller lakes and rivers, providing outstanding canoeing, fishing, camping and exploring in some of the most gorgeous countryside around. A highlight is the Churchill River, important throughout Saskatchewan's history, and today providing some of the best canoeing in North America.

Tourism Saskatchewan

PORTMEIRION

     An Italianate village on the coast of Wales: is it possible? Portmeirion is the most charming place in the Principality. It was begun in 1925 by architect Clough Williams-Ellis, who called it "a lighthearted live exhibition of architecture, decor and landscaping." His intention was to prove that buildings could actually enhanced an already beautiful landscape. Towers, spires, turrets, domes, campaniles, triumphal arches, murals and weatherboard cottages make up this joyous fantasy, in a thickly wooded setting on the edge of a big sandy bay.

 Portmeirion, Gwynedd

 
It is familiar to many who haven't even been here from the cult T.V. series The Prisoner. Many of the cottages offer first-rate accommodations as part of the Portmeirion Hotel. One of the most elegant and unusual places to stay in Wales, this waterfront mansion is located at the heart of Portmeirion. The original part of the building is Victorian, although it was greatly expanded in the 1920s.

MYRTLE BEACH

 Myrtle Beach is the sun and fun capital of the Grand Strand that beckons millions to the semi-tropical paradise that's a golfer's dream, a fisherman's delight, a family vacation heaven and tennis buff's fantasy. Natural beauty, a climate with distinct but mild and pleasant seasons, and a variety of activities, almost as limitless as the seashells, have made the Grand Strand the choice vacation and retirement spot for generations of Carolinians, along with a swelling tide of national and international tourists.

 Greetings from Myrtle Beach!
Long noted as the Riviera of the South.

 

The fine white sand and dunes of the beaches along the Strand make for the best in swimming, sunbathing, strolling, shelling and surfing. The big thrill, voted near the top by all, is food. Miles of restaurants offer heavenly smells and the best in seafood of the day, if not the very hour. The after-dinner fun begins when Myrtle Beach lights up its Pavilion, as the infinite sky lights the moon and stars. When the sun goes down, the stars step out - on Myrtle Beach's many stages.

 

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