Makhanda (Grahamstown) is an important educational, legal and cultural centre and offers travellers easy access to the unspoilt beaches of the Sunshine Coast and many well-known local 5-star game lodges offering the “Big 5” in a malaria -and bilharzia-free environment.
Explore Grahamstown/Makhanda:
- Anglican Cathedral of St Michael and St George, Church Square
- High Street and the Victorian shop fronts on Church Square
- Observatory Museum housing a Victorian Camera Obscura, Bathurst Street
- Artificers' Square, Cross Street
- Rhodes University Campus
- Makana Botanical Gardens, Lucas Avenue
- The Provost, Lucas Avenue
- 1820 Settlers' Monument and Fort Selwyn, Gunfire Hill
- Take a township tour
- St Phillips Church
- Egazini memorial
- Experience the annual National Arts Festival every July - the 3rd largest Arts Festival in the world