- Addo Elephant National Park - Blyde River Canyon - Cape Town - Clanwilliam - Coffee Bay - Gariep (orange) River - Hluhluwe and Umfolozi - Hole In The Wall - Knysna - Kruger National Park - Oudtshoorn - Pilgrim's Rest - Pretoria/Gauteng - South Drakensberg - St Lucia - Tsitsikamma National Park - Umhlanga Rocks - Zuurberg National Park

South Africa

If you are having trouble deciding on how to start your African Adventure  then starting with South Africa is a great choice. It has excellent infrastructure, the climate is fantastic and you will be hard pressed to find better wildlife viewing than in South Africa.

Come and visit one of the fastest growing tourist destinations in the world! We have it all, deserts, savannas, snow-covered mountains, grasslands, high forests, sandy beaches, wine farms, home of the big five and much more...

Tours that pass through South Africa

• Rainbow Nation  19 Days: Johannesburg to Cape Town
  
  
• Drakensberg and Garden Route Explorer  13 Days: Durban to Cape Town
  
  
• The Four Country Classic  20 Days: Cape Town to Victoria Falls
  
  
• Canyon and Desert Deluxe  13 Days: Cape Town to Windhoek
  
  
• Kruger Escape 4 Day: Johannesburg to Johannesburg
  
  
• Kruger and KwaZulu Safari  9 Days : Johannesburg to Durban
  
  
• Kruger & Swaziland Meander 10 Day Pretoria to Pretoria
  

Join one of WildLife Adventures tours that visit South Africa:

Visit Cape Town with all its cosmopolitan hot spots, restaurants cocktail, sushi bars and clubs.

Climb Table Mountain for an awesome view, visit famous Robben Island, Kirstenbosch Botanical gardens, and sample lots of great wine and cheese at any of our spectacular wine estates.

Kruger National Park in the Northern Province  world famous for unbeatable wildlife viewing.

South Africa has some of the words most un-spoilt sandy beaches.

The famous Garden Route.

A taste of the unique South African cuisine, Bobotie (a spicy mince dish), Boerewors (a spicy fatty sausage), Biltong (dried meat), koeksisters (a sweet syrupy treat).

Dive head first off the Bloukraans River bridge, the highest bungi in the world!

Try your hand at Ostrich riding in Oudtshoorn.

South Africa has a huge array of Adventure activities for you to sample: horse trails, white water rafting, tubing, guided hikes and game trekking, scuba diving, deep sea fishing, caged shark diving, paragliding, caving, mountain biking, and much much more..!

South Africa - QUICK FACTS

Area: 1,120,00 sq km
Population: 43 million
Official languages: Afrikaans, English, Zulu, Ndebele, Xhosa, Swati, North Sotho, South Sotho, Tsonga, Tswna & Venda
Time: GMT/UTC +2
Visas: South African entry visas are issued FREE on arrival to visitors on holiday from many Commonwealth and most Western European countries, as well as Japan and the USA. If you aren't entitled to an entry permit, you'll need to get a free visa before you arrive.
Currency: Rand
Capital: Pretoria (Administrative), Cape Town (legislative), Bloemfontein (judicial)

MORE ABOUT SOUTH AFRICA

One thing South Africans have in common is their shared love for endless wide-open spaces of their country. Space to breath in semi- desert plains, in the wide green farmland valleys, in the high splendor of its ancient mountains, in the dense, forests; in the singing, sub tropical thickets of the bushveld, in the smooth golden grasslands of the high veld plateau; and in the endless white beaches. The wide emptiness of these beautiful landscapes, the gaiety of day to day life, the deep forest hush and the chattering of colourful birds, the twitching fidgeting herds of antelope forever on the watch for predators, the peace of the empty coasts - these are the things that make South Africa unique!

GEOGRAPHY

The country extends nearly 2000km from the Limpopo River in the north to Cape Agulhas in the south, and nearly 1500km from Port Nolloth in the west to Durban in the east. South Africa completely surrounds Lesotho and almost completely surrounds Swaziland.

HISTORY

The earliest recorded inhabitants of South Africa were the San (Bushmen) and the closely related Khoikhoi (Hottentots). The next arrivals were Bantu-speaking tribes in the 11th century.
The first European settlement was a supply station established in 1652 by Dutch East India Company at the Cape of Good Hope. It became a colonial settlement and the Khoi-San people were driven away.

CULTURE

South Africa is often called the cradle of civilisation, for this is where archaeologists discovered 2,5 million-year-old fossils of our earliest ancestors, as well as 100 000-year-old remains of modern man. It is the variety of South Africa's fascinating and diverse peoples that is its greatest asset, with a population over 43 686 million. Although South Africans come from many cultural traditions, they belong to one nation, a dynamic blend of age-old customs and modern ways, building a new South African society to create a better life for all.

CLIMATE

The climate is generally sunny and pleasant, subtropical along East Coast; sunny days, cool nights. Eastern plateau region has a dry, sunny climate in winter with maximum temperatures around 20o C and a minimum at night of around 5o C. The rainfall season is between October and April. In the southwestern Cape regions have dry and sunny summers with maximum temperatures around 26o C. Winters can be cold with occasional snow on the higher peaks. This is a winter rainfall area.

TRAVEL TIPS

• Malaria: Certain areas within South Africa are Malaria areas. To reduce the risk of catching Malaria, seek advice from travel clinics and doctors regarding what precautions to take.
• Be aware that the South African R200 note looks a lot like the R20 note.
• Best time to go and see the Namaqualand flowers in the Northern Cape and Western Cape provinces is in beginning September.
• The whale season is from August to December and excellent sightings can be seen in Southern and Western Cape.