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Tsitsikamma Forest

Tsitsikamma is a Khoe word meaning “place of abundant waters”. This indigenous for-est – which are heavily populated with giant yellowwood and stinkwood trees – and stunning coastline with an...

The Blyde River Canyon

Situated about 25km north of Pilgrim's Rest in Mpumalanga. Stretching for 25km, featuringtowering cliffs, terrifying rapids, and steamy tracks of subtropical jungle, the world'slargest green canyon...

The Karoo National Park

The Great Karoo is a vast and unforgiving landscape of whichthe Karoo National Park is but a small portion. Being thelargest ecosystem in South Africa, the Karoo is home to afascinating diversity of...

Cape Point

It's the meeting-point of two mighty oceans and the spot where Africa ends or begins, depending on your perspective. You can breathe the freshest air in the world here, as it blows instraight from the...

Table Mountain

You can't really miss it. Its 1086 m above sea level at itshighest point, and is visible from 200 km out at sea. Thetop part of the mountain is made up of rocks that were deposited by an ancient...

The Drakensberg

It runs from Dordrecht in the Eastern Cape all the way through to Tzaneen inMpumalanga, but most of them 1,000 kilometres (600 miles) range falls in KwaZulu-Natal. Tothe Voortrekkers, it resembled a...