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Umhlanga (Durban) (cont.) Van Plettenberg, Baron Joachim Walking and hiking (cont.)
restaurants 408 156, 361 Kranshoek Trail (Knysna) 245
uMkhuze Game Reserve 76, 300 Van Riebeeck, Jan Otter Trail 248, 249
Umlalazi Nature Reserve 296 arrival at the Cape 50–51 Outeniqua Trail (George to
Umlani Bush Camp (Timbavati) 345 Company’s Garden Knysna) 242
Umngazi Mouth 271 (Johannesburg) 134 Table Mountain 137
Umtamvuna Nature Reserve 270, Grand Parade (Cape Town) 129 Tsitsikamma Trail 248, 249
290, 292 Green Point (Cape Town) 150 Walter Sisulu National Botanical
Umtamvuna River Gorge 292 Hout Bay 152 Garden 322
Umuzi (Zulu kraal) 263 Iziko Castle of Good Hope (Cape Walter Sisulu Square (Soweto) 319
Umzimkulwana River 292, 293 Town) 121, 130 War Memorial (Graaff-Reinet) 362
Underberg, restaurants 407 Kirstenbosch National Botanical Warden, Major Henry 376
UNESCO World Heritage Sites Garden (Cape Town) 164 Warthogs, common 99
iSimangaliso Wetland Park 300–301 Robben Island 147 Washkansky, Louis 163
Mapungubwe 339 Van Ryn, Jan 199 Water, drinking 430
Robben Island 12, 146–7 Van Ryn’s Brandy Cellar Water sports 39, 418, 421
Sterkfontein Caves 16, 322 (Stellenbosch) 199 Langbaan 217
Swartberg Pass 356 Van Wouw, Anton 324 Waterberg 338
uKhahlamba-Drakensburg Park Van Wyk, Jan 206 Waterbucks, common 101
274–5 Van Zyl, Jacobus 235 Waterfalls
Union Buildings (Pretoria) 313, 325 Vanrhynsdorp 221 Augrabies Falls 355, 372
Union of South Africa 58 Vegkop, Battle of 54 Berlin Falls 335
United Nations Security Council 60 Velddrif, hotels 387 Bridal Veil Waterfall (Augrabies)
University of Witwatersrand Venda 36 372
(Johannesburg) 314 Vereenigde Oost-Indische Bridal Veil Waterfall (Drakensberg)
Up the Creek (Breede River, near Compagnie see Dutch East India 335
Swellendam) 41 Company Horseshoe Falls (Drakensberg)
Upington 350, 355, 369, 372 Vereeniging, Treaty of 56, 324 335
festivals 40 Vergelegen 13, 201 Horseshoe Falls (Wild Coast) 271
hotels 391 Vervet monkeys 77, 88 Howick Falls 281
restaurants 411 Verwoerd, Hendrik Frensch 365 Kadishi Falls (Swadini) 337
uShaka Marine World 17, 286 apartheid 58, 59 Lisbon Falls 335
Utshwala (beer) 262 assassination 60 Lone Creek Falls 335
Uvongo 292 Victor Verster Prison (Paarl) 26, 61 MacMac Falls 330, 335
Uvongo River Nature Reserve 292 Victoria, Queen 139 Maletsunyate Waterfall 272
Uys, Pieter-Dirk 215 Victoria & Alfred Waterfront (Cape Maria Shires Falls 335
Town) see V&A Waterfront Oakes Falls (near Greyton) 209
V Victoria Basin (Cape Town) 139, Panorama Gorge 337
V&A Waterfront (Cape Town) 12, 13, 142 Samango Falls 290
138–47, 166, 169 Victoria Embankment (Durban) 288 Waterfalls Tour 15, 335
entertainment 171, 174 Victoria Street Market (Durban) 10, Witpoortje Falls 322
hotels 384 17, 288 Waterfront (Cape Town) see V&A
map 139 Victoria Wharf Shopping Centre Waterfront
restaurants 399 (Cape Town) 121, 141 Waterfront Company 139
street-by-street 140–41 Victorian architecture 35 Waterholes 76–7
V&A Waterfront Amphitheatre Victorian House Museum (Pilgrim’s Watershed Craft Market (Cape
(Cape Town) 141, 171, 174 Rest) 336 Town) 166, 169
Vaal River 54 Vilakazi, BW 32 Watts, George Frederic 163
Vale, William 324 Vioolsdrift 354 Weapons, Zulu 263
Valley of Desolation (Camdeboo Vipers 107 Weasels, striped 86
National Park) 360 Visas 426 Weather 44–5
Valley of the Waves (Sun City) 313, Vixseboxse, JE 233 safaris 66
326, 329 VOC see Dutch East India Company Weaver, masked 116
Value Added Tax (VAT) 412, 413 VOC Kruithuis (Stellenbosch) 196 Weaving 36
Van Aelst, Willem 128 Volsteedt, Samie 198 Weights and measures 429
Van de Graaff, Governor Cornelis Voor Sneeuberg 361 Wells, Michael 346
Jacob 362 Voortrekkers (Boer pioneers) 54–5, West Coast 210–21
Van der Decken, Hendrick 155 281, 311, 369 climate 44
Van der Post, Sir Laurens 32, 33, 373 Voortrekker Monument and hotels 386–7
Van der Stel, Simon 134 Museum (Pretoria) 59, 325 map 212–13
Boschendal Manor House 202 Vredenburg 214 restaurants 403–4
Groot Constantia 160 Vulture, lappet-faced 112 travel 212
Simon’s Town 156 Vygies 221, 357 The West Coast 214
Stellenbosch 193 West Coast National Park 210, 213,
Van der Stel, Willem Adriaan W 216–17
Groote Kerk (Cape Town) 129 Wagtail, Cape 116 Western Deep gold mine 314
Tulbagh 215 Walking and hiking 416, 421 Western and Southern Cape
Vergelegen 201 Alexandria Hiking Trail 255 184–257
Van Dyck, Anthony 128 Boesmanskloof Hiking Trail 209 10 Days in the Western Cape 10,
Van Hunks, Jan 122 Cederberg Wilderness Area 219 12–13