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• Stare out from atop Cape Town's Table Mountain, the famous flat-topped mountain with views across the peninsula to the Atlantic Ocean. You can walk up or take the dizzying Aerial Cableway (website: www.tablemountain.net).
• Explore South Africa's 13 major wine-producing regions, following their signposted wine routes. Wine estates offer tastings beneath the vines or in old Cape-Dutch whitewashed mansions and many have excellent restaurants (website: www.winelands.co.za).
• Drive the scenic Route 62 through the Breede Valley area, and the charming little towns of Tulbagh, Worcester, Wellington and Ceres, which all have fine old buildings, interesting small museums, beautiful scenery, vineyards and fruit orchards (website: www.route62.co.za).
• Marvel at whales from June to September at Hermanus, the best place in South Africa to watch whales. Walker Bay holds a Whale Festival annually during the last week of September (website: www.hermanus.co.za).
• Dive off the coast of KwaZulu-Natal. It is particularly popular in Sodwana Bay. The offshore Aliwal Shoal and Protea Banks are some of the best dive sites in South Africa, while wreck diving is widespread around the Cape.
• Surf at Jeffrey's Bay (J-Bay) near Port Elizabeth, which is home to Supertubes - considered by surf rats as the world's best right hand point break (website: www.surfingsouthafrica.co.za).
• Bungee jump from one of the world's highest drops - the bridge over the Blaukrans River, Western Cape. At 216m (709ft), this jump is more than twice as high as the jump over the Zambezi River near Victoria Falls (website: www.faceadrenalin.com).
• Play a round of golf at one of the hundreds of courses across South Africa. Many are in scenic locations and several have been designed by one of the greatest golfers of all time, South African Gary Player (website: www.golfinginsouthafrica.co.za).
• Watch the West Coast and Namaqualand explode into blossom as wild flowers blanket the landscape between midAugust and midSeptember. The West Coast National Park is one of the best places to see the phenomenon (website: www.namaqualand.com).
• Hike through beautiful mountain ranges, scenic game reserves and challenging wilderness. There are hundreds of trails through the Drakensberg, the Otter Trail is multi-day hike along the coast or you can simply walk up Table Mountain (website: www.hiking-south-africa.info).
• Take the ferry to the notorious Robben Island prison in Cape Town's Table Bay, where Nelson Mandela and many other anti-apartheid activists were imprisoned. Ride around the island on an old prison bus and peek inside Mandela's cell (website: www.robben-island.org.za).
• Cage dive with great white sharks in Gansbaai in the Western Cape. Dyer Island, with its penguins, seals and large game fish is the natural hunting ground for sharks (website: www.whitesharkdiving.com).
• Take a tour of a township, the areas where blacks were forcibly relocated during apartheid, and experience the vibrancy and sense of community. Tours run from most major cities; Soweto in Johannesburg and the Cape Flats in Cape Town are most popular.
• Enjoy South Africa's world-renowned beaches, such as popular Plettenberg Bay; Durban's city beach the Golden Mile; South Coast family beach resorts Amanzimtoti, Scottsburgh, Port Shepstone and Margate; or join the beautiful people at Cape Town's impossibly trendy Camps Bay.
See Contact Addresses for further tourist information.
• Explore South Africa's 13 major wine-producing regions, following their signposted wine routes. Wine estates offer tastings beneath the vines or in old Cape-Dutch whitewashed mansions and many have excellent restaurants (website: www.winelands.co.za).
• Drive the scenic Route 62 through the Breede Valley area, and the charming little towns of Tulbagh, Worcester, Wellington and Ceres, which all have fine old buildings, interesting small museums, beautiful scenery, vineyards and fruit orchards (website: www.route62.co.za).
• Marvel at whales from June to September at Hermanus, the best place in South Africa to watch whales. Walker Bay holds a Whale Festival annually during the last week of September (website: www.hermanus.co.za).
• Dive off the coast of KwaZulu-Natal. It is particularly popular in Sodwana Bay. The offshore Aliwal Shoal and Protea Banks are some of the best dive sites in South Africa, while wreck diving is widespread around the Cape.
• Surf at Jeffrey's Bay (J-Bay) near Port Elizabeth, which is home to Supertubes - considered by surf rats as the world's best right hand point break (website: www.surfingsouthafrica.co.za).
• Bungee jump from one of the world's highest drops - the bridge over the Blaukrans River, Western Cape. At 216m (709ft), this jump is more than twice as high as the jump over the Zambezi River near Victoria Falls (website: www.faceadrenalin.com).
• Play a round of golf at one of the hundreds of courses across South Africa. Many are in scenic locations and several have been designed by one of the greatest golfers of all time, South African Gary Player (website: www.golfinginsouthafrica.co.za).
• Watch the West Coast and Namaqualand explode into blossom as wild flowers blanket the landscape between midAugust and midSeptember. The West Coast National Park is one of the best places to see the phenomenon (website: www.namaqualand.com).
• Hike through beautiful mountain ranges, scenic game reserves and challenging wilderness. There are hundreds of trails through the Drakensberg, the Otter Trail is multi-day hike along the coast or you can simply walk up Table Mountain (website: www.hiking-south-africa.info).
• Take the ferry to the notorious Robben Island prison in Cape Town's Table Bay, where Nelson Mandela and many other anti-apartheid activists were imprisoned. Ride around the island on an old prison bus and peek inside Mandela's cell (website: www.robben-island.org.za).
• Cage dive with great white sharks in Gansbaai in the Western Cape. Dyer Island, with its penguins, seals and large game fish is the natural hunting ground for sharks (website: www.whitesharkdiving.com).
• Take a tour of a township, the areas where blacks were forcibly relocated during apartheid, and experience the vibrancy and sense of community. Tours run from most major cities; Soweto in Johannesburg and the Cape Flats in Cape Town are most popular.
• Enjoy South Africa's world-renowned beaches, such as popular Plettenberg Bay; Durban's city beach the Golden Mile; South Coast family beach resorts Amanzimtoti, Scottsburgh, Port Shepstone and Margate; or join the beautiful people at Cape Town's impossibly trendy Camps Bay.
See Contact Addresses for further tourist information.
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