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Tsehlanyane National Park
This Lesotho Northern Parks–administered national park protects a beautiful, 5600-hectare patch of rugged wilderness, including one of Lesotho’s only stands of indigenous forest, at a high altitude of 2000m to 3000m. This underrated and underused place is about as far away from it
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West Coast National Park
This park encompasses the clear, blue waters of the Langebaan Lagoon and is home to an enormous number of birds. The park covers around 310 sq km and protects wetlands of international significance and important seabird breeding colonies. Wading birds flock here by the thousands in
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St George’s Cathedral
Commonly known as the People’s Cathedral, this was one of the few places of worship that was open to people of all races during apartheid. Classical concerts are sometimes held here; see the website for details as well as times of daily services. The interior is a cool retreat, but
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De Hoop Nature Reserve
Covering 340 sq km and extending 5km out to sea, this reserve has a magnificent coastline, with long stretches of pristine beach and huge dunes. It’s an important breeding and calving area for the southern right whale. You’ll find exceptional coastal fynbos and animals such as enda
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Green Point Urban Park
One of the best things to come out of the redevelopment of Green Point Common for the 2010 World Cup is this park and biodiversity garden. Streams fed by Table Mountain’s springs and rivers water the park, which has three imaginatively designed areas – People & Plants, Wetlands
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South African Jewish Museum
You need a photo ID to enter the secure compound thats home to not only to this imaginatively designed museum but also the the functioning and beautifully decorated Great Synagogue , a 1905 building in neo-Egyptian style. The museum partly occupies the beautifully restored Old Syna
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Bokong Nature Reserve
Bokong has perhaps the most dramatic setting of the three Lesotho Northern Parks reserves, with stunning vistas over the Lepaqoa Valley from the visitors centre, various short walks and a good, rugged two- to three-day hike to Ts’ehlanyane National Park. Bearded vultures, rock shel
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Royal Natal National Park
Fanning out from some of the range’s loftiest summits, the 80-sq-km Royal Natal National Park has a presence that far outstrips its relatively meagre size, with many of the surrounding peaks rising as high into the air as the park stretches across. With some of the Drakensberg’s m
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Gamkaskloof Nature Reserve
In a narrow valley in the Swartberg range is Gamkaskloof, better known as Die Hel. The first citizens of Die Hel were early Trekboers, who developed their own dialect. There was no road into Die Hel until the 1960s, and donkeys carried in the few goods the mostly self-sufficient co
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Sodwana Bay
Spectacular Sodwana Bay is bordered by lush forest on one side, and glittering sands on another. Yet this beautiful place offers more than stunning scenery. Popular activities include guided walking and birding trails, especially along the 5km Mgobozeleni Trail, a route featuring c
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Augrabies Falls National Park
The Khoe-San people called it ‘Aukoerbis’, meaning place of great noise. And when the waterfall for which this park is named is fat with rainy-season run-off, its thunderous roar is nothing short of spectacular. You won’t find any big predators here, but this is the world’s sixth-t
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Silvermine Nature Reserve
This section of Table Mountain National Park is named after the fruitless attempts by the Dutch to prospect for silver in this area from 1675 to 1685. Today its focal point is the Silvermine Reservoir (built in 1898), which is a beautiful spot for a picnic or leisurely walk on a wh
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Sculpted by millions of years of harsh elemental exposure, South Africa’s remotest transfrontier park is a seemingly barren wilderness of lava rocks, human-like trees and sandy moonscapes studded with semiprecious stones. The 6000 sq km of surreal mountain desert joins South Africa
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Ngwempisi Gorge
The Ngwempisi Gorge, 30km south of the Malkerns Valley, is one of the country’s few remaining untouched environments, with beautiful natural forests and the Ngwempisi River. Adventure-seekers will love the Ngwempisi Hiking Trail, a community-run 33km trail in the Ntfungula Hills on
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Constitutional Court
The Constitution Hill development focuses on South Africa’s new Constitutional Court, built within the ramparts of the Old Fort, which dates from 1892 and was once a notorious prison, where many of the country’s high-profile political activists, including Nelson Mandela and Mahatma
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Wilderness National Park
This national park encompasses the area from Wilderness and the Touws River in the west to Sedgefield and the Goukamma Nature Reserve in the east. The southern boundary is the ocean and the northern boundary is the Outeniqua range. The park covers a unique system of lakes, rivers,
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Kosi Bay
The jewel of iSimangaliso Wetland Park, Kosi Bay features a string of four lakes starting from an estuary lined with some of the most beautiful and quiet beaches in South Africa. Fig, mangrove and raffia-palm forests provide the greenery (it is the only place in South Africa with f
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Rhodes Memorial
Partly modelled on the arch at London’s Hyde Park Corner, this monumental granite memorial stands on the eastern slopes of Table Mountain, at a spot where the mining magnate and former prime minister used to admire the view. The 49 steps, one for each year of Rhodes’ life, are flan
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Mutual Heights
Clad in rose- and gold-veined black marble, Mutual Heights is the most impressive of the City Bowl’s collection of art deco structures. Its decorated with one of the longest continuous stone friezes in the world, designed by Ivan Mitford-Barberton and chiselled by master stonemason
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Pilanesberg National Park
Tucked into the shadow of Sun City, and surrounded by industrial development and sprawling suburbs, Pilanesberg is a wild lifeline in a sea of urbanity. At less than a three-hour drive from Jo’burg, malaria-free Pilanesberg is South Africa’s most accessible big-game reserve. Concep
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