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South Africa

Exhilaration runs supreme with a journey to South Africa, the adventure capital of the African continent. Its striking beauty and rich culture will leave you yearning for more African drum and gumboot beats. With an envious climate and natural attractions as varied as they are beautiful, it is also a land of great extremes and contrasts.

With more than 3 000 kilometres of coastline, the country possesses many unspoiled beaches and an incredible diversity of marine life. The Namaqualand daisies are a sight to behold, exploding with bright coloured, dainty flowers after the winter rains. To the north of Johannesburg, the altitude drops and turns into an area of mixed dry forest, featuring an abundance of wildlife, including elephants, lions, leopards, buffalo and rhinos. For active travellers, the Drakensberg Mountains are the ideal destination for mountain climbing, hiking or more relaxing nature walks and are also the site of bushman rock art sites.

South Africa is a large country with diverse climactic regions but, in general, the weather is sunny and hot from December to April (summer) and mild from May to November (winter). Winters in the Cape are cold and wet, and snow falls on the mountain ranges both here and in Natal. The northern areas experience thunderstorms regularly during evenings in the summer months, and winters are usually warm during the day and cold at night.

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