Aerial view of Brookdale Estate Manor House (Andrew Thompson)
Paarl. It may not have the exotic ring of Franschhoek. Or the trendy, youthful community of Stellenbosch. And it doesn't, yet, seem to have the tourism marketing juggernauts of either inserting its name into superlative headlines of global travel publications.
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