South Africa
Interesting locations in South Africa
South Africa is an extremely wide-ranging land, offers most limitless chances for the adventure travel of all sorts from diving, trekking and rafting to mountain-climbing including golden beaches and nature reserves and prominent wildlife.
Some of the best beaches are De Hoop Nature Reserve (Whale Coast, Western Cape: white sand dunes slipping into the sea, evocative limestone outcrops, coves, an aquamarine sea); Noetzie (Garden Route, Western Cape, one of the nearest beaches to Knysna and also the most fascinating due to overlooking minicastles); Plettenberg Bay (Garden Route, Western Cape); Port St Johns (Wild Coast, Eastern Cape); and Rocktail Bay (Maputaland, KwaZulu-Natal). Other beaches situated in Cape Town’s are Clifton (sunbathing and watching paragliders land); Fish Hoek (swimming, sailing, boogie boarding, sunbathing and family fun); Hout Bay (paddle skiing, fresh seafood, boogie boarding); Llandudno (body boarding, surfing, sandcastles and sunset picnics); and Noordhoek Beach (kite flying, horse riding and surfing).
The World Heritage Sites in South Africa are now representing a major role in maintaining the regions and by tourism raising the local communities. The said sites are the Greater St Lucia Wetland Park (provides wide-range of activities for the tourist namely scuba-diving, hiking boating and bird watching, camping and fishing); uKhahlamba-Drakensberg Park (one of the richest rock painting areas in the world and some activities are horse riding, cycling and canoeing, fishing and swimming); Robben Island (a place of imprisonment and internationally recognized for its institutional viciousness); and the Cradle of Humankind (contains a band of significant palaeo-anthropological sites).
Some of the adventure places in the country are Kruger National Park (provides scarcely credible variety and abundance of species); and Kalahari Gemsbok National Park (bursts in wildlife including imposingly large crowds of springbok, eland, gemsbok and wildebeest).
