Destination: South Africa | |||||||||||||||||||
What To See South Africa Western & Eastern Cape + Cape Town Sights Northeast Region + Durban Gauteng + Johannesburg Pretoria + Pretoria Northwest Region + Kimberley Walk/Drive Food&Drink In The Know Did You Know? 'This Cape is the most stately thing and the fairest Cape we saw in the whole circumference of the earth.' SIR FRANCIS DRAKE (on the Cape Peninsula), Journal (1580) |
Western & Eastern Cape
Unlike the rest of South Africa, the Western Cape has a Mediterranean climate, with mild, wet winters and hot, dry summers. As this region was the earliest to be occupied by European settlers, some of the oldest towns and buildings in the country are here. Visitors come to enjoy the sheer natural beauty of the Cape, hike in its mountains, tour its wine farms, soak up the atmosphere of its small country towns and relax on its beaches. The superbly scenic Garden Route provides a gateway from the Western into the Eastern Cape, a region steeped in a history of contact and conflict between the Xhosa people and European settlers. Grahamstown will fascinate those interested in the past, while nature-lovers will want to head for the Addo Elephant National Park and the vast empty beaches of the Wild Coast. |
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