{"id":416,"date":"2014-06-09T09:15:04","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T09:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/?p=416"},"modified":"2014-06-27T11:18:53","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T11:18:53","slug":"yes-you-can-ski-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/06\/yes-you-can-ski-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, you can ski in South Africa&#8230;!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most people tend to think of Africa as a continent of deserts, but you can ski in several places in the continent.<\/p>\n<p>The Atlas Mountains in Morocco are a possibility, but Tiffindell, on Ben McDhui in South Africa is the highest point in the country at 3001 metres above sea level.<\/p>\n<p><strong>High slopes + great snow cannons = snow!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Snow cannons and well-positioned slopes mean that the resort &#8211; located at 2720m &#8211; can guarantee snow for 100 days each year.<\/p>\n<p>This video shows the snow cannons and grooming equipment preparing the resort:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hvrlpVAzhlE?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The snow cannons can create up to 20cm of fresh snow in a day, and the resort can accommodate up to 150 guests at a time.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s another one for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/\">Chaletline<\/a> team&#8217;s bucket list then!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-417\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/3.png\" alt=\"3\" width=\"498\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/3.png 498w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/3-300x134.png 300w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/3-190x85.png 190w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/3-60x26.png 60w, https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/3-400x179.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #111111;\">Article by\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #333366;\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/107961348339974741522\/about?rel=author\">Iain Martin<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/06\/yes-you-can-ski-in-south-africa\/\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/3-190x85.png);\" class=\"thumb_crop\">https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/3-190x85.png<\/a><p>Most people tend to think of Africa as a continent of deserts, but you can ski in several places in the continent. The Atlas Mountains in Morocco are a possibility, but Tiffindell, on Ben McDhui in South Africa is the &hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/06\/yes-you-can-ski-in-south-africa\/\">read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113],"tags":[167,168],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":436,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions\/436"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaletline.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}