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Third largest national park in South Africa, Addo National Park covers over 400,000 acres and includes the Bird and St. Croix Island groups. The top five main attractions found in the park include: lions found on the southern section of the park, he...
Categories: Addo National Park
The naming of Amanzimtoti is generally attributed to Shaka Zulu. He was passing through the area with his army on one of his campaigns and stopped to rest. He was brought a calabash filled with water from the river. He sipped the water and said: Kant...
Categories: Amanzimtoti
Categories: Aquila Private Game Reserve
Nestling in a bay of turquoise sea, white sand and rocky coves lies Arniston – a little-known gem on the Cape south east coast. Discover an authentic fishing village – also known as Kassiesbaai – dating back to the early 19th Century, and now a natio...
Categories: Arniston
Augrabies Falls National Park, South Africa, features a stunning waterfall (185 ft/56 m high), whose name derives from a San word meaning "Place of Great Noise." It is located near the border with Namibia, about 390 mi/625 km north of Cape Town. The ...
Categories: Augrabies Falls National Park
The landscape of the central region of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, is dotted with small industrial towns and rolling farmland, but its compelling history makes up for what it lacks in scenic drama.This area is better known as the Battlefields, and s...
Categories: Battlefields South Africa
Categories: Bela-Bela
Categories: Bird Island South Africa
Located in the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa, is the country's judicial capital. The city, whose name is derived from Dutch for "Fountain of Flowers," was founded in 1846 as a British outpost and has many historic buildings and beautiful par...
Categories: Bloemfontein
Boggomsbaai is located in the Western Cape of South Africa. It is home to a number of restaurants, entertainment facilities and malls, as well as historical and cultural hotspots. Boggomsbaai is also a haven for wildlife, and bird and whale lovers ar...
Categories: Boggomsbaai
Cape Town is southern Africa's most beautiful, most romantic and most-visited city. Few urban centers anywhere can match its setting along the Cape Peninsula spine, which slides like the mighty tail of the continent into the Atlantic Ocean. By far th...
Categories: Cape Town
The Cederberg mountains and nature reserve are located near Clanwilliam, approximately 300 km north of Cape Town, South Africa. The mountains are noted for dramatic rock formations and San rock art.
Categories: Cederberg Mountains
Categories: Chintsa
Named after the Earl of Clanwilliam, this town is one of the ten eldest town in South Africa. The Dutch reformation left remnants of Germanic-style churches, farm buildings, and homes.
Categories: Clanwilliam
Categories: Drakensville
South Africa's third-largest city, thriving industrial center, and largest port in Africa creates a photogenic place for meandering or eating and drinking dockside. Durban's second-largest population group, Indians, have mosques, bazaars and temples...
Categories: Durban
On one of the loveliest stretches of the Eastern Cape's magnificent Indian Ocean coastline, East London is South Africa's only river port city, set beside broad Buffalo River. It's an attractive and young-at-heart place that preserves architectural a...
Categories: East London
South Africa's Eastern Cape is known for its expanses of wild and untouched coast and bush. Visit Nelson Mandela's home at Qunu, the Addo Elephant National Park, with the densest elephant population in the world, and explore the dramati...
Categories: Eastern Cape
Edini (Edeni) is a private game reserve located in South Africa's Kruger Park area. This "untamed garden of Eden" offers 21,000 acres teeming with an abundance of diverse bird life, vegetation and game, including the Big Five.
Categories: Edini
Categories: Eshowe
Categories: Featherbed Nature Reserve
Franschhoek is known as the wine and gourmet capital of South Africa. There are a number or wineries, cellars and shops that offer visitors tours and tastings of the local wines. There are also over 100 of the Nations top restaurants and chefs in the...
Categories: Franschhoek Valley
Categories: Gansbaai
Technically, the scenic road known as the Garden Route, South Africa—famous for its beautiful wildflowers, forests and mountainous coastline—runs along the coast from Mossel Bay to the Storms River. However, the entire drive from Cape Town to Port El...
Categories: Garden Route
Categories: Gauteng
George, the capital of Nature’s ‘Garden Route’, is located in the Cape Wildflower Floral Kingdom next to the coast at the eastern end of the Western Cape Province and has a low rainfall Mediterranean type climate with activities year round. George ne...
Categories: George
Located 165 mi/265 km south of Johannesburg, the lovely but out-of-the-way Golden Gate Highlands National Park in South Africa has antelope and lots of birds, including the rare bearded vulture and the bald ibis. But the main attraction is the scener...
Categories: Golden Gate Highlands National Park
Gqeberha (formerly Port Elizabeth), in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, is situated on Algoa Bay in the Indian Ocean. It is an important seaport and manufacturing centre, as well as a popular resort noted for its fine beaches. Worth visitin...
Categories: Gqeberha (formerly Port Elizabeth)
Pretty, historic Graaff-Reinet, South Africa, located 360 mi/580 km northeast of Cape Town, is worth a half-day's visit. The architecture is quite attractive. Be sure to see the Reinet House and the Old Residency, both beautiful examples of Cape Dutc...
Categories: Graaff Reinet
About 225 mi/360 km from Mthatha lies Grahamstown, South Africa—also known as Festival City, City of Saints or Rhini. Home to Rhodes University and the annual National Arts Festival, Grahamstown is steeped in history. Even the main museum, the Albany...
Categories: Grahamstown
Graskop is a small town in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa that was once a gold mining camp in the 1880’s however it’s now a small forestry town. Graskop in Afrikaaans translates to “grassy peak” and a few minutes&rsqu...
Categories: Graskop
Grootbos Nature Reserve is located above South Africa's Walker Bay, which is where southern right whales calve from June to November and great white sharks are known to linger in the waters. Enjoy whale and shark watching, nature hikes, horseback...
Categories: Grootbos Nature Reserve
Hermanus is located on the southern coast of the Western Cape of South Africa. Hermanus is a famous viewing spot for southern right whales, and they can often be spotted from the cliffs in the town center June through December. Visitors also enjoy th...
Categories: Hermanus
Categories: Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Game Reserve
Hoedspruit rests in the center of the UNESCO registered Kruger to Canyons Biosphere, and is primarily an agriculture town and hotspot for ecotourism. Its proximity to endangered animals in nearby reserves draws many visitors, and the town also holds ...
Categories: Hoedspruit
In addition to an office with a printing press for his newspaper, Indian Opinion, Mohandas Gandhi's settlement in Inanda included a clinic, school and homes, including his own family's cottage, Sarvodaya, which means "well-being for all." Today visit...
Categories: Inanda
Categories: Isandlwana
The vast UNESCO World Heritage site of iSimangaliso Wetland Park, South Africa, lies 150 mi/250 km from Durban, along the humid stretch of coast running northward from the St. Lucia Estuary to Kosi Bay on the border with Mozambique.The park comprises...
Categories: iSimangaliso Wetland Park
Johannesburg's contrasts are some of the most extreme in the world; poverty-stricken and overcrowded Alexandra is surrounded by some of the richest suburbs in South Africa, and downtown hundreds of homeless struggle to survive around the Stock Excha...
Categories: Johannesburg
Kapama Private Game Reserve is located in the Greater Kruger National Park region in South Africa. Enjoy private safari experiences in open safari vehicles, guided bush walks, river boat cruises, and exciting elephant back safaris. The adventurous wi...
Categories: Kapama Private Game Reserve
Kariba is a popular lakeside resort northern of Zimbabwe built around a man-made dam on the Zambezi River and is a singular example of co-existence of man and animal. It is a popular resort area and commercial fishing center. At the same time, the da...
Categories: Kariba
Karongwe Private Game Reserve is a wildlife sanctuary on the banks of the Karongwe River in Limpopo, South Africa. Untamed and tranquil, the vas wilderness is abundant with over 60 mammal species with big cats, elephants, rhinos and birds. This camp ...
Categories: Karongwe Private Game Reserve
Karoo National Park, South Africa, is located near the town of Beaufort West, approximately 250 mi/400 km northeast of Cape Town. Heading into the Karoo, you pass through a landscape of rusty windmills and sheep the color of old corn. Vast plains of ...
Categories: Karoo National Park
Categories: Kenton-on-Sea
The center of the 19th-century diamond rush that made millionaires of Cecil John Rhodes and Barney Barnato, Kimberley, South Africa, is most famous today for its Big Hole. The Hole ranks as one of the world's three largest man-made excavations, havin...
Categories: Kimberley (South Africa)
Categories: Klaserie Private Nature Reserve
Categories: Klein Karoo
Knysna nestles on the banks of a beautiful lagoon in the heart of the ‘Garden Route’ of South Africa. It is surrounded by a natural paradise of lush indigenous forests, tranquil lakes and golden beaches, making it a natural wonderland. A ...
Categories: Knysna
This enormous and magnificent park is one of the most popular public game parks in the world. Its density of permanent game is unrivalled with hundreds of different species; 507 birds, 336 trees, 147 mammals, 114 reptiles, 49 fish and 34 amphibians!...
Categories: Kruger National Park
Categories: Kuruman
Categories: Kwandwe Game Reserve
Categories: KwaZulu-Natal
Categories: Langebaan
Often dubbed the Kingdom in the Sky, the tiny independent country of Lesotho is completely surrounded by South Africa, but it has retained its own distinctive landscape and culture. The whole country lies above 3,300 ft/1,000 m—the only country in th...
Categories: Lesotho
Categories: Lowveld
A protected area in South Africa, Madikwe Game Reserve opened in 1991 and was named after the Madikwe or Marico River. The Reserve used to be farm land however after extensive research, it was utilized as a national park to economically uplift the ar...
Categories: Madikwe Reserve
Categories: Makalali Private Game Reserve
Categories: Manyeleti Reserve
Mapungubwe National Park, South Africa's newest, inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2003, is dominated by Mapungubwe Hill, which lies on the border with Zimbabwe north of Muaina. Massive stone ruins, occupied from approximately AD 950-1300,...
Categories: Mapungubwe National Park
Categories: Marakele National Park
Categories: Marataba Private Reserve
Categories: Marion Island
Categories: Matijiesfontein
Categories: Mkuze Game Reserve
Modjadjiskloof, South Africa, located about a 25-minute drive from Tzaneen, is home to a very peculiar bar, one that exists in the belly of an African baobab tree. The Sunland Baobab is billed as the largest baobab on earth and is said to be more tha...
Categories: Modjadjiskloof
Categories: Molatedi
Categories: Montagu
Categories: Morning Sun Nature Reserve
Beautiful Mossel Bay is a coastal village and harbor of the World Famous Garden Route. This popular holiday town is blessed with mild climate year round and its status as historical capital of the Garden Route. Today, mussels, which give the harbor i...
Categories: Mossel Bay
Mpumalanga is an ancient land, with evidence of human habitation stretching back 100 000 years, and the first major kingdoms and mining empires beginning 46 000 years ago. The region's pre-colonial history is, however, still largely unexplored. Its r...
Categories: Mpumalanga
Formerly Umtata, the rough-and-tumble town of Mthatha, South Africa, 370 mi/600 km south of Johannesburg, once served as the capital of the Transkei, an apartheid-era "independent" Xhosa homeland that was reintegrated into South Africa following the ...
Categories: Mthatha
Categories: Musina
The succulent desert of Namaqualand, South Africa, 100 mi/160 km north of Cape Town, hosts one of the world's most astonishing floral spectacles in August-September, when light rains transform the rocky plains into dazzling fields of multicolored flo...
Categories: Namaqualand
Categories: Nelspruit
Categories: Newcastle South Africa
Categories: Ngala Private Game Reserve
Categories: Oceana Beach & Wildlife Reserve
Categories: Orange River (Gariep River)
There are some 150,000 domesticated ostriches in the world, and 120,000 of them live around Oudtshoorn, South Africa, a dusty town on the edge of the Little Karoo plain 210 mi/340 km east of Cape Town. They wander the stony farms, scratching a minima...
Categories: Oudtshoorn
Outside of Cape Town, Paarl sits as a picturesqe and diverse town known for its production of wine, and for its sweeping, panoramic landscapes of granite outcropping and vineyards. As one of the older European settlements, Paarl has been shaped by ...
Categories: Paarl
The northern Drakensberg in South Africa extends into the province of Mpumalanga, becoming rugged escarpments and plateaus that plunge more than 3,280 ft/1,000 m down into the Lowveld plains below. The spectacular Panorama Route meanders through this...
Categories: Panorama Route South Africa
This private game reserve was formed along the Greater St Lucia Wetland Park - one of Africa's most ecologically diverse regions. Its variety renders it perfect for an escape of luxury and adventure. Catch a glimpse of Zulu life, past and present by ...
Categories: Phinda Game Reserve
Next door to the famous leisure and entertainment resort of Sun City, is the Pilanesberg National Park. It has a real wilderness feel to it and most of the big animals visitors wish to see. It lies amongst the only significant hills in the area which...
Categories: Pilanesberg Game Reserve
Pilgrim's Rest was declared a gold field in 1873 after gold deposits were found in Pilgrim's Creek. Mining was active until 1971 when Beta Mine was closed down. In 1986 the town was declared a national monument. The Central Information Office gives...
Categories: Pilgrim's Rest
Originally christened "Bahia Formosa" (beautiful bay) by Portuguese explorers, Plettenberg Bay can now be easily accessed. Great forests lying at the feet of the fabled Outeniqua and Tsitsikamma mountains are the gateway to the incredible indigenous ...
Categories: Plettenberg Bay
Categories: Polokwane
Categories: Port Nolloth
Pretoria itself was founded in 1855 by Marthinus Pretorius, a leader of the Voortrekkers, who named it after his father Andries Pretorius. The elder Pretorius had become a national hero of the Voortrekkers after his victory over the Zulus in the famo...
Categories: Pretoria
Categories: Prince Albert
Categories: Prince Edward Islands
Categories: Pyramid
This busy port presents two contrasting aspects of Kwazulu-Natal's exciting wildlife heritage.The coastal St. Lucia Game Reserve is a fascinating wetland reserve with some of the world's highest forested dunes - and game including black rhino and So...
Categories: Richards Bay
Categories: Robben Island
Route 62's scenic meander between Cape Town and Oudtshoorn, South Africa, is the longest wine route in the Western Cape, passing through some of the top boutique vineyards in the country. The countryside is breathtaking and ever-changing, from craggy...
Categories: Route 62 South Africa
Sabi Sands is located in the south western region of the Greater Kruger National Park. The game reserve is home to lions, leopards, rhinos, buffalo and elephants. You will find plenty of accommodations, safari tours and restaurants.
Categories: Sabi Sands
Categories: Saldanha
Experience the raw beauty of South Africa's Sanbona Wildlife Reserve in the heart of the Little Karoo, and venture out to catch a glimpse of the rare white lion, the big 5 and historic rock art.
Categories: Sanbona Wildlife Reserve
Sandton is located in the northern east region of South Africa. This destination has a lot of activities to offer its tourists; this includes a visit to one of the largest shopping centers in Africa(Nelson Mandela Square), visiting the Monte casino o...
Categories: Sandton
This privately owned 25,000 hectares of South African land is the epitome of Safari and Game Reserve. Shamwari not only boasts the birth place of political leader and philanthropist Nelson Mandela, but this reserve leads and focuses in the developmen...
Categories: Shamwari
'Singita' means "The Miracle". And, as you will find, breakfasting above Sand River on a timber deck cradled in the branches of towering Jackalberry trees, it is a fitting name for this intimate wildlife experience.
Singita is also something of a c...
Categories: Singita
Categories: Soweto
Categories: St. Francis Bay
A tiny island set in the tropical South Atlantic, 1,500 miles north-west of Cape Town, St Helena is only 47 square miles in area, with no harbour and no airport. It lies a lonely 1,200 miles from the west coast of Africa, a rugged volcanic island tha...
Categories: St. Helena (Jamestown)
St. Lucia Game Reserve is located in the eastern coast of South Africa. This is a prime destination for many people looking to experience first-hand what Africa has to offer. There is abundance in wildlife from, rhinos, elephants and leopards. The mo...
Categories: St. Lucia Game Reserve
Stellenbosch is a town located in the province of Western Cape Town in South Africa. It is one of the oldest towns in the state of South Africa dating back to 1679. In the year of 1710 a fire broke out that destroyed most of Stellenbosch, all but two...
Categories: Stellenbosch
Sun City is internationally renowned as South Africa 's premier holiday resort offering a multitude of attractions and activities to keep everyone occupied. With its combination of golf, game and gambling, as well as world class hotels. Sun City is t...
Categories: Sun City
Home to the "Big Five," Thornybush is located in the heart of the Lowveld savannah just adjacent to Kruger Park. Enjoy the unspoilt nature of wild animals, the African safari, and the relaxing excusivity Thornybush offers its guests.
Categories: Thornybush
Established in 1956, Timbavati Games Reserve share an unfenced border with Kruger National Park that aims to protect its diverse wildlife while ensuring that all species roam freely. Located in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa, Timbavati Games...
Categories: Timbavati
Categories: Tshipise
Categories: Tsitsikamma
Categories: Tswalu
Categories: Tswalu Kalahari Reserve
One of two World Heritage sites situated within a half-day's drive of Durban (150 mi/250 km away), the uKhahlamba-Drakensberg—which runs to the west of the N3 to Johannesburg—is the largest mountain range in southern Africa. Its Afrikaans name of Dra...
Categories: uKhahlamba Drakensberg Mountains
This coastal suburb of Durban is around 30 minutes north of the city center, and its Zulu name means "Place of Reeds," in reference to years gone by when reeds were washed down to the beach by the Ohlanga River. In the 19th century, local farmers lea...
Categories: Umhlanga
Categories: Upington
Categories: Vaalwater
Walker Bay is near the Southern most tip of Africa. Magnificent mountains watch over the town which is home of the Southern Right Whale.
Categories: Walker Bay
Categories: Waterberg
The West Coast of South Africa is perhaps most famous for its wildflowers that carpet the region in vivid color from mid-August through September. White sandy beaches there stretch as far as the eye can see, often strewn with kelp and driftwood, inte...
Categories: West Coast Region South Africa
Categories: Western Cape
Categories: White River
Categories: Wilderness
As environmental awareness grew in the late 1970s, the South African government came under intense pressure to protect the country's natural scenery. By 1983, it had created the National Lake Area around the Wilderness wetlands, 235 mi/380 km east of...
Categories: Wilderness National Park
Evocative of grandeur as Zululand surely is - conjuring up images of noble culture, magnificent wildlife and fabulous surroundings - nothing compares to first- hand experience of our Kingdom's heartland...via ultra- modern, efficient infrastructures....
Categories: Zululand
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