South
Africa - General Travel Guide
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Introduction
to South Africa
South Africa is an awesome
holiday destination with so much to do you'll be spoiled for choice. South
Africa is internationally renowned as one of the world's top game viewing
and birding destinations, but it also has some of the world's best flowers,
which can be seen to great advantage, particularly in the Western Cape
where the indigenous fynbos forms part of the Cape Floral Region, which
is a world heritage site.... |
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South
Africa - Survival Guide
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Best
Beaches for Beach Bums by RoadTravel
South Africa is renowned
to have some of the most beautiful beaches in the world. And now it's not
only just the locals testifying to this. Recently 23 South African beaches
were awarded Blue Flag status... |
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Diving
in Southern Africa
South Africa has a 3,000km
coastline so there are hundreds of dive sites and good snorkelling spots.
But, even more interesting, there's loads of variety, ranging from the
icy kelp forests off Cape Town to the tropical coral reefs off Sodwana
Bay in KwaZulu-Natal... |
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Dolphin
and Whale Watching in South Africa
South Africa is an awesome
dolphin and whale watching destination as there is a large population of
resident cetaceans, and many visit here during their annual migration.
The most well known of the cetacean species seen in South Africa is the
southern right whale, which swims up from Antarctica, usually arriving
some time in June... |
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Elephant-Back
Safaris In South Africa by SA-Venues.com Editor
South Africa Elephant Back
Safaris - following in the footsteps of the Ancients: Elephants, the largest
land animals in the world, inspire a feeling of awe and respect in most
people.... |
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Flying
Adventures in Southern Africa
If you're into flying, you'll
find that - in South Africa - the sky's the limit. That's because we don't
offer rocket flights out into space, but that's about all we don't do. |
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Golf
in South Africa Travel Guide
South Africa is a great
golfing destination for a number of reasons. Firstly, and perhaps most
importantly, there are loads of great golf courses. Secondly, the weather
is fabulous and, thirdly, the green fees, as a rule, compare very favourably
to those of the northern hemisphere... |
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Hire
a car and see more of South Africa by Andrew Regan
As winter looms on the horizon,
the long haul holiday market springs into life offering sun and heat in
the southern hemisphere. From the cosmopolitan offerings of Cape Town and
Johannesburg to the wilderness of the Kruger National Park to the rugged
Atlantic and Indian Ocean coastlines, South Africa has plenty to offer
the holiday maker this winter... |
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South
Africa - Basic Overview by Laurence Marks
South Africa was once divided
into two British Colonies, namely the Colony of Natal and the Cape Colony,
and two "Boer" Afrikaner Republics, namely the Orange Free State and the
Transvaal.... |
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South
African Travel: From Backcountry to Metropolis byurlreader
South Africa has so much
variety to offer visitors that it is difficult to define in a few words.
One can travel from isolated bushveldt to cosmopolitan city in a few hours.
A safari can be followed by a visit to the spectacular coast and on to
the magnificent Drakensburg mountain range.... |
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Surfing
in South Africa
Sun, sea, sand and ... stupendous
surf. Just think about it. South Africa's coastline is 3,000km long so
it's not surprising that it has some of the best surf in the world. Here's
a very condensed run around the coast from east to west.... |
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The
Cast of Culture in South Africa by: Gregory Hudson
... given the nature
of the culture in South Africa, your attention could swiftly switch to
a small boy gallantly escorting herds of cattle, end to end, over a rainbow-like
walkway crossing one of the largest and busiest highways in South Africa... |
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The
Rugged Profile of a Safari Guide by Gregory Hudson
What is your ideal image
of a guide? Do safari guides need more than just a dark tan, a khaki shirt
and a hat like Crocodile Dundee? Could there be more to being a guide than
telling gripping fireside tales and downing hearty swigs of Jack Daniels? |
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Tour
South Africa by Laurence Marks
Only 13 odd years ago, South
Africa appear on the world stage on a daily basis, unfortunately it was
all negative publicity and rightly so. South Africa was in the process
of major changes from the old "Apartheid Regime" to the new democratically
elected government, the government that is still in power today... |
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Travel
To South Africa: Modern Nation, Ancient Origin by Frank
Johnson
South Africa is an extraordinarily
unique sub-Saharan African nation jutting formidably - for sailors who
have planned to round its cape - into the Atlantic and Indian Oceans at
the southernmost top of Africa... |
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What's
To Know Before Taking An African Safari by Dean Caporella
In Swahili, the word safari
means journey and is mainly aimed at hunting and exploring. Nowadays, however,
the word safari is generally associated with adventure and the discovery
of habitats and wildlife of the African land... |
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