This is a guide for the first-time visitor with limited time, who wants to experience the best that South Africa has to offer. The guide recommends the sights worth seeing and places of interest to visit, and advises on where to stay, eat and shop, excursions to take, and the best way to travel around. A short introduction profiles South Africa's history - including the May 1994 presidential election - people, places and wildlife, government and economy. This is followed by descriptions of what to see and do in the popular tourist regions - Cape Town and Winelands, Garden Route, Transvaal Escarpment and Kruger National Park, Durban, Natal and Zululand, Drakensburg, Sun City and the Witwatersrand. The text contains travel tips, useful information panels and colour photographs, maps and climate charts which will enable visitors to make the most of the time available.
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Practical, informative and user-friendly, the Globetrotter Travel Pack to South Africa highlights the major places of interest, describing their principal attractions and offering sound suggestions on where to tour, stay, eat, shop and relax.
This guide is ideal for the first-time visitor. It is concise and informative and contains over 30 full color area maps, town plans and locator maps, over 90 full color photographs and a full size pull out map all in a handy plastic pack.
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This guide is ideal for the first-time visitor. It is concise and informative and contains over 30 full color area maps, town plans and locator maps, over 90 full color photographs and a full size pull out map all in a handy plastic pack.
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Cape Town-based writer and editor, Peter Joyce, spent four years as editor of the books division at Reader's Digest in Cape Town, and is one of South Africa's most prolific travel writers. He has over 50 books to his credit, including Traveller's Guide to South Africa, Journey through South Africa and The Kalahari: Survival in a Thirstland Wilderness.
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