South Africa
South Africa
A flat-topped mountain above one city, winelands behind it, and big game to the north-east.
- DestinationSouth Africa
- CountrySouth Africa
- TypeInternational holiday
Overview
About South Africa
South Africa works as several trips inside one country. Cape Town sits beneath Table Mountain on a peninsula where two ocean systems meet, with the winelands an hour inland and a coastline that runs east from there through forest and cliff.
The game reserves are a long way off, in the north-east — Kruger and the private reserves along its western boundary, about two hours from Cape Town by air. Treating the two as one short trip is the usual mistake; they are separate journeys joined by a flight.
Good to know
Worth Knowing Before You Go
- Table Mountain forms part of the Cape Floral Region, a UNESCO-listed biodiversity hotspot.
- Kruger National Park covers roughly 20,000 square kilometres.
- The winelands around Stellenbosch and Franschhoek date to seventeenth-century Dutch and Huguenot settlement.
- Cape Town and the Kruger area are about two hours apart by air, and their best months do not coincide.
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