Travel guide to South Africa
| Language: | English |
| Currency: | Rand |
| Time zone: | +2 hrs GMT |
A country of immense cultural diversity, South Africa has a variety of natural landscapes and a colourful history. The Western Cape boasts the magnificent Table Mountain and other fantastic hiking routes, vast wine lands, magnificent beaches, and the world-class restaurants and cosmopolitan entertainment haunts of Cape Town. Alternatively, in the Eastern Cape you can surf the world’s biggest waves, ski the only slopes in South Africa, tick off the ‘Big Five’ on a the safari checklist, visit the birthplace of Nelson Mandela and bungee off the highest bridge in the Southern hemisphere.
The country has a rich and ancient history, from the cave-paintings of the ancient San people to the ‘Kingdom of the Zulu’. The landscape is always surprising, ranging from the annual floral outburst in Nanaqualand to the great Limpopo River and the great canyons and mountains of the Drakensberg range, all set under a wide African sky.
Whether its action, relaxation, discovering the country’s history or an adventure South Africa offers so much that it just cannot fail to amaze everyone of its visitors.
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