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For the fearless — the world's highest bridge bungy, great white cage diving and the Sani Pass 4x4.
Adventure & ActivitiesKwaZulu-NatalAliwal Shoal
A fossilised dune reef about 5 km off Umkomaas where cage-free divers meet ragged-tooth sharks in winter and open-water tiger sharks in summer.
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Adventure & ActivitiesWestern CapeBloubergstrand Kite Beach
Kitesurf beneath a postcard view of Table Mountain rising across Table Bay — Cape Town's kitesurfing mecca and home to Red Bull's King of the Air big-air showdown.
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Adventure & ActivitiesWestern CapeBloukrans Bridge Bungy
Leap from what is widely recognised as the world's highest commercial bridge bungy — 216 metres.
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Adventure & ActivitiesEastern CapeCape St Francis
Home to a right-hand point once crowned the 'perfect wave' in the 1966 film The Endless Summer, and to Seal Point Lighthouse — reputedly South Africa's tallest masonry lighthouse.
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Adventure & ActivitiesWestern CapeElands Bay
A cold, cooking left-hand point break peeling for a hundred-plus metres on the wild West Coast — with ancient San rock art in a cave on the headland right above the lineup.
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Adventure & ActivitiesWestern CapeGansbaai Shark Cage Diving
Come face to face with sharks in the self-styled great white capital.
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Adventure & ActivitiesMpumalangaGraskop Gorge Lift
Ride a glass elevator 51 m down a forested cliff on the Panorama Route — or freefall 70 m at up to 140 km/h on the Big Swing.
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Adventure & ActivitiesEastern CapeJeffreys Bay
Home to Supertubes, a long, fast right-hand point break that draws the world's top surfers to the Eastern Cape coast each July.
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Adventure & ActivitiesWestern CapeK3 Zipline
A single 3.2-kilometre cable off the Klein Swartberg above Caledon, which its operator calls the world's longest zipline — and which is, without argument, Africa's.
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Adventure & ActivitiesWestern CapeLangebaan Lagoon
A vast turquoise lagoon of warm, waist-deep, mirror-flat water inside a national park — a kite- and windsurfer's dream barely 90 minutes north of Cape Town.
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Adventure & ActivitiesLimpopoMagoebaskloof Canopy Tour
Glide between treetop platforms on zip-lines up to 150 m long, soaring over three waterfalls in Limpopo's misty Groot Letaba gorge.
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Adventure & ActivitiesWestern CapeMossel Bay Zipline
A 1.1-kilometre cable strung down the cliffs at The Point — past a Victorian lighthouse and a Stone Age cave — that its operator bills as the world's longest zipline over the ocean.
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Adventure & ActivitiesWestern CapeMuizenberg Beach
Cape Town's friendliest surf beach, backed by a rainbow row of Victorian bathing boxes on the warmer False Bay shore.
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Adventure & ActivitiesKwaZulu-NatalProtea Banks
A deep fossilised-dune reef 7.5 km off Shelly Beach where advanced divers drift with hammerheads and ragged-tooth, tiger and bull sharks.
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Adventure & ActivitiesKwaZulu-NatalSani Pass
A legendary 4x4 climb to the roof of southern Africa.
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Adventure & ActivitiesEastern CapeTsitsikamma
Where the Storms River spills into the Indian Ocean, a swaying 77-metre suspension bridge strung since 1969 marks the wild heart of Tsitsikamma — the Garden Route's malaria-free adventure capital.
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Adventure & ActivitiesNorth WestValley of the Waves
Sun City's beach-fronted wave pool rolls in a fresh breaker every 90 seconds beside slides like the near-vertical, 70 m Temple of Courage.
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