If you want your music in large doses, visit one of South Africa's festivals. Rustler's Valley in the Free State hosts alternative music festivals over the Easter weekend, the winter solstice and the whole holiday period over the summer solstice. Splashy Fen is held in the Drakensberg mountains in May, Oppikoppi in North West province in August, and the Woodstock youth music festival in September.

For a greater choice, the National Festival of the Arts, usually just called the Grahamstown Festival, is the place to be. Music, visual arts, dance, theatre and much more keeps this small university town awake 24 hours a day for 10 days at the beginning of July. It's the second biggest arts festival in the world, after Edinburgh. Use your international cell phone rental to navigate these festivals.

Even more homegrown is the Klein Karoo Kunstefees, held in Oudtshoorn in late March. It started off as an Afrikaans festival but it's grown to encompass other languages, mostly English. Then there's the Aardklop - Afrikaans for "earth beat" - festival in Potchefstroom in late September, and the FNB Vita Dance Umbrella in Johannesburg in late February.

Your international cell phone renatls in South Africa will help you keep track of all these festivals.