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KEEPING YOU IN THE LOOP Buy A Real CHRISTMAS TREE
Support your community and buy a real Christmas tree. The uMhlanga Round Table Christmas Trees Sales Project will be on until December 22, selling Christmas trees, stands and buckets in support of fundraising for charities. Daily from 8am-6pm at Crusaders Durban North Sales Site. Trees cost from R190 for a 1,2m tall tree to R800 for one taller than 3m.
LITCHI Festival
December 16-31: daily, 9am-3pm; December 24, 9am-12pm; December 25, closed; December 26, booking essential: Have fun picking litchis at this year’s 15th annual Litchi Festival. Just past the Flag Farm Animal Farm on Sheffield Beach Road, the festival starts when the litchis are ripe, and ends when the litchis run out. R150 per person, includes eating as many as you can while picking and taking home 1,6kg of litchis; children under three, R50; bucket, R100. Don’t miss out. FOR MORE INFO: To book: litchifestival@gmail.com; 064 763 6457; W litchifestival/; @litchifestival
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December 11- 30, 2020, excluding Christmas Day: Visitors can look forward to nightly entertainment, kids holiday activities, charity activations, new displays,
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two food gardens and a festive market, offering an eye-watering selection of local and authentic gifting and decor. “The theme for this year is ‘Add A Little Light’,” explains Koren Gnirck, Durban Botanic Gardens Trust’s Operations
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Manager, “because we figured that we all needed a little light at the end of what has been a strange and difficult year.”
FOR MORE INFO: Limited tickets, for three entry times per night, are available from www.webtickets.co.za or Pick n Pay.
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