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Step through Kirstenbosch via Cecilia Forest in the span of one afternoon, and discover the history and litanies of beauty stuffed into the small borders of the city’s favourite world-class botanically-themed amusement park.
Through the story of Kirstenbosch’s founding and global power as the throne of the Fynbos kingdom, discover everything about the contradictions of colonialism, the ‘beloved’ texture of South Africa, the roots of the Kirstenbosch community and its many varieties of splendour.
Learn about the loneliest tree in the world, the famous 'Bird' bath named after a chap and shaped like a bird, the first still-living vestige of Apartheid, and Cecil Rhodes’s half-finished plan for a private highway stretching from his back-garden to the pub at Constantia Nek. Spot some nice flowers and birds and smells along the way too.
