FIFA World Cup in South Africa

South Africa is a country located at the southern tip of Africa it is one of the most diverse, enchanting countries in the world.

South Africa has some of the best wildlife viewing in the world and is famous for its wildlife rich Safari’s. Exotic combinations of landscapes, people, history and culture offer the traveller a unique experience. South Africa’s immensely varied terrain supports a rich diversity of wildlife, birdlife, and plant-life and offers an incomparable range of experiences and natural beauty for which tourists flock to the country.

But this year – 2010 – tourist will flock to South Africa for another reason. The 2010 FIFA World Cup football tournament will be held in South Africa between 11th June and 11th July 2010.

The 2010 World Cup football tournament will be the 19th FIFA World Cup. The tournament will be staged at 10 venues across nine South African cities: Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, Port Elizabeth, Nelspruit, Polokwane, Bloemfontein, Rustenburg and Pretoria.

Five of South Africa’s football stadiums will undergo major renovations for 2010: Soccer City and Ellis Park in Johannesburg, Loftus Versfeld in Pretoria, the Royal Bafokeng stadium in Mafikeng in North West Province and Vodacom Park in Bloemfontein in the Free State.

New stadiums will also be built for the tournament with up to date equipment to protect spectators and players against the South African Winter.

The 2010 World Cup promises to be a spectacular event for visitors. It will be the first time the World Cup is hosted in Africa.

For those going there or wanting to go there, South Africa offers a range of accommodation possibilities going from 5-star, luxury, international-class hotels in its major cities to hip boutique hotels and country lodges to more down to earth Bed and Breakfasts (B&B) and guesthouses.

For the none football fans, check out the locations in Europe! The la Manga club Spain and Forte Village Sardinia are two great luxury resorts you will enjoy.

The Cannes film festival

The Cannes film festival is probably one of the most amazing film festivals around the world. It is also one of the most well known film festival occurring every year usually in the middle of May. Cannes 2010 will take place between the 12th and the 23rd of May.

The Cannes Film Festival is one of the oldest film festivals in the world that was created shortly after the second world in nineteen forty six in Cannes. Originally, the idea of this film festival was born in the nineteen thirties when some people were shocked by the interference of Germany and Italy in the decisions over which movies should win in the Venice film festival. Interestingly, Cannes was not the first obvious choice of city to host this film festival, and the city was competing with other French cities like Vichy and Biarritz or Algiers in French Algeria. There are around fifteen different awards that can be won on this film festival, with the most well known and the one thought after by every film present at the Cannes film festival being the golden palm rewarding the best film.

There are a lot of other well known film festivals in the world that, even if they are not as famous as the Cannes Film Festival, are still extremely good and important. The world first film festival was actually held in Venice before the Cannes film festival in 1932.
Venice and the golden lion award, or Berlin and its golden bear are among these well known film festivals but don't have the same success as Cannes.