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South Africa Travel Guide


   

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Comprehensive online travel guide and accommodation directory on South Africa with maps, online booking of accommodation and directories on attractions and activities. Let's plan your trip.

Exotic combinations of landscapes, people, history and culture offer the traveller a unique and inspiring experience. South Africa is often called a "world in one country", because of its diversity of peoples, plant and animal life, climatic regions and scenic splendours. Join us to discovery a wonderful country.

See also Encounter Magazine's comprehensive guide on What to do in South Africa.
 
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Map of Provinces

 

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Eastern Cape   Free State   Gauteng
Offers the visitor from long sandy beaches to game parks teaming with the Big Five to unrivalled cultural experiences.   The never-ending plains between the Vaal and Orange Rivers form the Free State Province in the centre of South Africa.   Gauteng is the commercial and industrial powerhouse of South Africa and is the gateway to Southern Africa.


KwaZulu-Natal   Limpopo   Mpumalanga
KwaZulu-Natal, home of the Zulu Nation, with its subtropical coastline, sweeping savannahs and magnificent Drakensberg mountain range caters for the taste of almost any tourist.   Named after the Limpopo River, this province is rich in wildlife, spectacular scenery and a wealth of historical and cultural treasures.   The name Mpumalanga means 'place where the sun rises’ in the local languages of Siswati and Zulu and is home to the Kruger National Park.


North West   Northern Cape   Western Cape
Known for the Sun City Pleasure Resort with its renowned golf courses, Pilanesberg Nature Reserve, the heritage route and Madikwe Game Park.   With wide wide-open spaces, big African skies and the world famous Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, the Northern Cape offers the visitor a totally different experience.   Offering you from the famous Table Mountain to the green Winelands, exquisite beaches to world-class hotels and restaurants and the cosmopolitan Cape Town.