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Seeing Red: Exploring South Africa’s Rooibos Tea Route

Seeing Red: Exploring South Africa’s Rooibos Tea Route

There’s nothing quite as quintessentially South African as a cup of rooibos tea. It’s available in hotel rooms and supermarket shelves. Chefs use it to enhance flavor and it’s found in beauty products, thanks to its healthy properties. Grown  commercially since the 1930s, rooibos was valued as infusions by the San people, the country’s earliest inhabitants. The hardy plant is endemic to the Cederberg Mountains region. The “Rooibos capital” is the unassuming town of Clanwilliam, population 8,000. Here, at The Rooibos Teahouse, you can participate in a tutored tea tasting.

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