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Highlights
•Cape
Town - climb up or walk on Table Mountain, visit Robben
Island where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned, be surrounded by
penguins while you sunbathe on Boulders Beach, enjoy excellent
cuisine in restaurants at a fraction of the price many foreigners
are used to, visit Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens for thousands
of species of the country's plants or take a scenic and leisurely
drive to one of Africa's southern-most points, Cape of Good
Hope.
•Self-drive Holidays
- take advantage of the easy routes and good roads, enjoying
independence in your explorations throughout the country.
•Garden Route - for
dramatic scenery and charming accommodation.
 •Winelands - with picturesque vineyards, relaxed picnics, wine tasting
and delightful towns with Cape Dutch architecture.
•Breathtaking scenery in
the Drakensberg with its jagged escarpments and snowy peaks.
•Kruger National Park:
one of Africa's finest National Parks and surrounding reserves
with plentiful game including the Big Five.
•Total luxury: South
Africa is home to worldwide award-winning lodges.
Weather
Climatically, a country of two zones: winter rains and summer
rains. From the Garden route westwards, the rains fall in winter,
and the prettiest time for flowers along the coast and in Namaqualand
is September to December. In the north east, in the Transvaal
lowveld and Zululand, the game reserves are full of animals
and their young from March to June after the summer rains. Winters
in the west are cold, in the east they are mild and dry. Summers
are hot everywhere, dry in the west and on the highveld, progressively
more humid through the eastern Cape, lowland Natal and the Transvaal
lowveld.
Activities
 •Game
viewing, by vehicle or on foot, in the private reserves
bordering Kruger National Park, in the Hluhluwe-Umfolozi Game
Reserve in Kwazulu Natal, and in the malaria-free private reserves
of the Eastern Cape and Madikwe Reserve bordering Botswana.
•Trekking and walking,
in the magnificent Drakensberg, maybe taking in fascinating
tours of Zulu battlefields. Also along the Garden Route there
are numerous trails following the cliff tops.
•Horse riding, in the
Waterberg Mountains.
•Whale
watching, between June and November off the southern coast.
•Wine tasting in the
Cape and eating good food everywhere.
•Golf at world class
courses throughout the country.
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