Cape Town
Between a legendary mountain and two oceans, the "Mother City" blends spectacular nature, creole culture, winelands and beaches. Arguably South Africa's most beautiful city.
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Creative cities, wildlife reserves, winelands and a wild coastline. Filter by region, activity and budget to build the trip that suits you.
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Cape Winelands
The Cape's wine country, under an hour east of Cape Town. Three old towns, Stellenbosch, Franschhoek and Paarl, ringed by mountains and hundreds of estates, with the Franschhoek Wine Tram to taste them without touching the car.
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Durban
South Africa's warm-water beach city, with a strong Indian and Zulu character. Durban is about the Golden Mile, curry and surf, with Zulu villages and a Big Five reserve a short drive inland.
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Garden Route
South Africa's classic road trip: about 300 km of coast, lagoons, forest and adventure between Mossel Bay and Storms River. Easy driving, and a stop worth making about every hour.
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Hermanus & the Whale Coast
The Overberg coast east of Cape Town, where southern right whales come close to shore from June to November. Land-based whale watching at Hermanus, great whites at Gansbaai, penguins at Stony Point, the southern tip of Africa at Cape Agulhas and the wild De Hoop reserve.
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Johannesburg
South Africa's biggest city and its main gateway. Joburg tells the country's story most directly, from the Apartheid Museum to Soweto, with a fast-changing creative side and easy safaris on the doorstep.
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Kruger National Park
Nearly two million hectares of bushveld where the Big Five roam free. Kruger is the most accessible of Africa's great parks: self-drive it in a hire car, or hand the wheel to a ranger at a private lodge.
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Panorama Route
South Africa's most scenic drive, along the Mpumalanga escarpment above the Kruger lowveld. Green canyons and viewpoints, swirling rock potholes, a string of waterfalls and an 1870s gold-rush village, all on one loop.
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The Drakensberg
South Africa's highest mountains, a wall of basalt and grassland running down the KwaZulu-Natal border with Lesotho. The Amphitheatre, the Sani Pass, Cathedral Peak and Giant's Castle, hiking, the richest San rock art in Africa, and big mountain views.
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Zululand & iSimangaliso
The safari side of the Durban coast: the Big Five in Africa's oldest game reserve, the wetlands and hippos of iSimangaliso, world-class diving at Sodwana, turtle beaches at Cape Vidal and the luxury bush of Phinda.
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