lumoplank / Wikimedia Commons (CC0)Nature & Landscapes
Forests, canyons and mountains — the Garden Route, the Panorama Route and the soaring Drakensberg.
Nature & LandscapesNorthern CapeAugrabies Falls National Park
The Orange River gathers across the Northern Cape desert, then hurls itself 56 metres off a granite lip into a gorge the Khoi named for its thunder: the "place of great noise."
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Nature & LandscapesMpumalangaBlyde River Canyon
A vast, green-walled canyon and the highlight of the Panorama Route.
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Nature & LandscapesMpumalangaBourke's Luck Potholes
Swirling rivers have drilled deep cylindrical potholes into the rock here, at the joy-and-sorrow confluence that opens the Blyde River Canyon.
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Nature & LandscapesWestern CapeCango Caves
A vast limestone cave system in the Swartberg foothills.
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Nature & LandscapesWestern CapeCape Agulhas
The geographic southern tip of Africa, where the Atlantic and Indian oceans officially meet beneath one of the country's oldest working lighthouses.
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Nature & LandscapesWestern CapeChapman's Peak Drive
A cliff-hugging toll road of 114 curves between Hout Bay and Noordhoek, with some of the Cape Peninsula's most dramatic Atlantic views.
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Nature & LandscapesMpumalangaGod's Window
A dizzying Panorama Route viewpoint where the Drakensberg escarpment falls roughly 700 m to the Lowveld and Kruger stretches toward the horizon.
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Nature & LandscapesFree StateGolden Gate Highlands National Park
As the sun drops, the Brandwag Buttress and its facing sandstone cliffs blaze gold above the eastern Free State highlands — the glowing gateway that gave this park its name.
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Nature & LandscapesWestern CapeGreat African Seaforest
Snorkel through towering golden kelp off Simon's Town in False Bay — the underwater wild made famous by the Oscar-winning 'My Octopus Teacher'.
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Nature & LandscapesKwaZulu-NataliSimangaliso Wetland Park
Where what is widely described as Africa's largest estuarine system meets the Indian Ocean, the Big Five roam beside 800 hippos, 1,200 crocodiles and beaches where sea turtles still come ashore to nest.
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Nature & LandscapesWestern CapeKirstenbosch
A world-renowned botanical garden on the slopes of Table Mountain.
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Nature & LandscapesNorthern CapeNamaqualand
A parched Northern Cape wilderness that, for a few spring weeks, erupts into one of the world's great wildflower displays.
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Nature & LandscapesKwaZulu-NatalThe Drakensberg
South Africa's highest mountains, rich in San rock art and hiking trails.
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