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 abundance of marine life. 7 WONDERS OF SOUTH AFRICA Tsitsikamma Forest - magical, opulent forest is home to such rarities as the Cape clawless otter. […]
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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 offer views to take your breath away. The Cradle of HumankindRich in fossils, riddled with caves, it's one of the world's most significant halfway stations on the road to
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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 life, all having adapted to survive inthese harsh conditions. Karoo National Park is dominated bythe lofty Nuweveld mountains and rolling plains, where
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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 Antarctic. Is about an hour's drive from thecentre of Cape Town. Head south-west until you just can'thead south-west anymore.
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 glacier hundreds of millions of yearsago. From Table Mountain a 50-km range reaches south-ward to Cape
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 chain of angry, unyielding dragons. To the Zulu nation, itis uKhahlamba, the Barrier of Spears. Mafadi Peak on the Lesotho border, previously believed
