South Africa
Bordered by five other African nations —namely Namibia, Swaziland,
Botswana, Zimbabwe and Mozambique—and completely surrounding the
small nation of Lesotho, The country recognises 11 official
languages, along with a further eight non-official ones, and is a
nation without a single and unified defined culture. It is, rather,
an amalgam of different cultures all occupying its territory at the
southernmost tip of Africa, and with the highest continental
population of European, Indian and mixed-race peoples, a tour to
South Africa guarantees the traveller an amazingly diverse cultural
experience. Sampling the various foods or enjoying the different
traditional dances of the many cultures in one locale are but a
couple of features that make a tour to South Africa so enriching and
some of the reasons that travellers return to the country year after
year.
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Despite its designation as semi-arid when it comes to climate, there
is a great deal of variation across the land. On one end of the
spectrum, there are the dry deserts near Namibia, and on the other,
there are the fertile subtropical areas near Mozambique and South
Africa has just about every degree in between. The vast majority of
the South African landmass is constituted of grassland and with its
abundance of plant species (about 20,000 or more), the country
houses around 10% of all the known plant species on the planet.
This, along with the close to 900 species of bird, means that
touring nature enthusiasts will particularly enjoy the bounties of
South Africa.
South Africa also has a lot to offer the sun-worshipper and the
active holiday-maker.
The 2,500km of coastline that skirts the Indian and Atlantic Oceans
is a prime location for travellers looking to take it easy on the
glistening white-sand beaches and for the more active traveller will
be delighted to discover that the country’s reputation for housing
some of the best wildlife parks in the world is no exaggeration.
Kruger Park in particular is a destination not to be missed on a
tour to South Africa.