NMMU performing at Varsity Sing

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eelyvUZ1GXI&w=500&h=400]The Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University choir really showed their worth at the recent Varsity Sing choir competition up to where the judges screwed them over in the final placing them fourth where they should have ended second at worse.  But let's not show sour grapes cause sour grapes do not make good wine.  Anyhow, I wanted to share two of their performances from the semi finals with you today.  The first their rendition of Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody and then below,…

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PE’s 100 years since becoming a city video

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtKlQTbxcHc&w=500&h=400]On 23 July 2013 Port Elizabeth celebrated 100 years since officially becoming a city.  This video was put together to celebrate the fact and shows a nice collection of historic photos and current footage

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Baakens Valley mountain biking

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLuHT9CAWgI&w=500&h=400]Last week's Video Friday post was a video featuring mountain biking in the Baakens Valley.  Following that post I found another video about mountain biking through the Baakens Valley and seeing that it's such an awesome mountain biking venue I decided to post it as well.

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Mountain biking in the Baakens Valley

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hh-AqM29ms&w=500&h=400]We are so fortunate to have the Baakens Valley green belt running through Port Elizabeth.  The area truly has the potential to become a prime outdoors activities part of the city and already is very popular with mountain bikers and trail runners.  When I found this great video on YouTube showing off the great trails through the valley I just had to share it with you.

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Karoo Heartland – where the land meets the sky

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3mMnBzvdEk&w=500&h=400]Last week I posted the new promotional video for the Greater Addo and Sundays River Valley area. This week I want to present to you the new video for the Karoo Heartland which covers the towns of Somerset East, Cradock, Middleburg, Nieu-Bethesda, Graaff-Reinet and Jansenville.  The perfect weekend breakaway from Port Elizabeth and truly a place where the land meets the sky.

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Discover the Sundays River Valley and Greater Addo route

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COrcRmcqGlI&w=500&h=400]The brand new destination promotion video for the Sundays River Valley and Greater Addo area have recently been released by Addo Tourism and ECTOUR showing how stunning this area right on Port Elizabeth's doorstep is.  It also illustrates what I'vebeen saying for a while now, that Addo is a fully fledged destination now and so much more than just elephants.  Please share it around on social media if you enjoy it.

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Sunshine Saunter with Chasing the Rainbow

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDWIRMptkoY&w=500&h=400]This week's Video Friday post is another featuring a video by Chasing the Rainbow.  In this one they explore the southern and western outskirts of Port Elizabeth while traveling along the Sunshine Saunter.

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Port Elizabeth / Nelson Mandela Bay – An African Wildlife Hotspot

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRkfQuaVq7M&w=500&h=400]Nelson Mandela Bay Tourism has a brand new destination marketing video promoting the fact that Port Elizabeth with Algoa Bay and all it's adjacent game reserve truly is an African Wildlife Hotspot.  At a recent tourism conference I attended, a representative of Kruger Lowveld Tourism in Mpumalanga implied during one of the panel discussions that the Eastern Cape doesn't offer visitors an authentic wildlife experience.  So let's see what Nelson Mandela Bay and surrounds have to offer.   Algoa Bay with…

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Hoisting the Campanile Bells

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fKyTXTvpBg&w=500&h=400]After taking down the Campanile bells and the renovation process, the bells have just been hoisted back into the top of the Campanile with Bell #23 going up on Wednesday.  Somebody thought it may be a good idea to attache a GoPro to the bell before it went up and thus we can all join it as it got hoisted back up.

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A Kuzuko Lodge Safari

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXG5yRclnms&w=500&h=400]Last week's Video Friday post featured a video by Chasing the Rainbow about a Kragga Kamma Game Park photo safari.  This week we're sticking to the game theme with another Chasing the Rainbow video, this time of their visit to Kuzuko Lodge.

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