TRAVELLING IN SOUTH AFRICA

The economic powerhouse of the continent, South Africa is an intoxicating mix of third world culture with first world ambitions. The country is a soft introduction to the Dark Continent, featuring cosmopolitan cities amid a diverse African landscape. Cape Town and the Cape Peninsula, the ballet shoe on the foot of pugilistic Africa, has been consistently recognised as one of the top cities in the world to visit, while the Kruger National Park and surrounding private game reserves set the benchmark in opulent safari travel. Accessible through an effective transport system, supported by a network of hotels, lodges, restaurants and internationally acclaimed tourist attractions, and flavoured by a colourful history and a transitional culture that makes for interesting, often topical, debate, South Africa rivals the best in the world as a tourist destination.

Home to Active Africa, whether on foot, by bike, in a coach or on a safari vehicle, we have guided trips from the Cape Peninsula in the South to the game reserves in the North, from the Drakensberg Mountains in the East to the semi arid plains of the Karoo in the West, and pretty much everything in between ...