Getaway - Addo Elephant National Park
In the Bushveld Valley with the Sunday River running through it to the eastern cape of South Africa, the Addo has earned its reputation and name from its most prestigious resident: the elephant. With up to 350 members of this endangered species, the park can be qualified as a veritable sanctuary.

Getaway - Blyde River Canyon
In the Mpumalanga, this canyon of gigantic proportions (third largest in the world) is covered in luxuriant vegetation with a powerful river, the Blyde River, flowing through it, carving out spectacular gorges along the full length of its course. From the dam at the confluence of the Blyde and Oh

Getaway - Cape of Good Hope
The south-western point of South Africa seems to divide the waters between the Indian and Atlantic Oceans. A mythical place for explorers, it was conquered for the first time in the 15th century by the legendary Vasco de Gama. Nowadays, the Cape of Good Hope is part of Cape Point peninsula, a larg

Getaway - Cape Town
Caught between Table Mountain and the Atlantic Ocean, a few cable lengths from the Cape of Good Hope and facing the bay where Robben Island is situated, Cape Town has a multi-faceted appearance with a population to match. Full of life, with an abundance of bars, clubs, cafés, restaurants, casinos

Getaway - Cape Whale Route
In the southwest of South Africa, at the confluence of the Indian and Atlantic Oceans, whales migrate along the coast, feeding their young. The spectacle of the whales passing by can be observed along the coast nicknamed the "Cape Whale Route", the principal sites being Lamberts, Elandsbaai, Saldan

Getaway - Cederberg mountains
Bushman Kloof reserve, located between the Cederberg mountains and the wild plains of Great Karoo and its nature reserve, a "site belonging to South Africa's natural heritage", has an outstanding variety of flora and fauna and a rugged natural beauty. Once a renowned hunting ground, today it is h

Getaway - Durban
The site where Durban is located was discovered by Vasco da Gama. Then, in the nineteenth century, the British, with the authorisation of Zulu King Shaka, built a colony there. Durban's superb location meant that it quickly became a major port and magnet for thousands of migrants mainly from India a

Getaway - Eastern Cape
In the east Cape region, near Grahamstown, the Kwandwe reserve is an expanse of 20,000 hectares of fertile land with the Great Fish River running through it. It is situated on the famous Garden Route, has a variety of wild flora and millions of animals including white rhinoceros, lions, buffaloes

Getaway - Franschhoek
This Western Cape community of South Africa was founded three centuries ago by French Huguenots fleeing from religious repression. In the heart of the River Berg valley, the settlers devoted themselves to exploiting the country's winegrowing potential until they produced wines that could rival wi

Getaway - Kalahari Desert
The Kalahari desert (meaning "Big Thirst" in Tswana) extends through Botswana, Namibia and South Africa. It is called a desert since there are vast expanses of brown sand, no rivers or permanent lakes. However, it often rains and develops a brush-like vegetation still inhabited by a small popula

Getaway - Kruger National Park
The Kruger National Park is the jewel of South Africa. It is also one of the world's largest nature parks, stretching from Zimbabwe to the Indian Ocean along the frontier with Mozambique, the diversity of the animals living there is unique worldwide. Lions, antelopes, rhinos, hippopotamuses, zeb

Getaway - Londolozi Private Game Reserve
In the heart of the famous Sabi Sand Game Reserve in east Mpumalanga, the Londolozi stretches over a wide, flora-rich strip of land, 14,000 hectares in area, with rivers running through it. In Zulu, Londolozi means "protector of all living things", so it is not surprising that the reserve promote

Getaway - Malilangwe Private Wildlife Reserve
In southeast Zimbabwe, the Malilangwe reserve (translated means "call of the leopard) covers an area of 100,000 acres of land where a multitude of wild animals roam free. Africa's "Big Five" are obviously present: leopards, lions, elephants, rhinoceros and buffalo but the fauna is much more diver

Getaway - Namib Desert
The Namib desert, the oldest in the world, is formed of an immense expanse of sand, the aspect of which changes as it is swept by the wind, the landscape broken up by rocks and rare plants. In this wild, arid desert, stretching along the South Atlantic Ocean, temperatures soar in the southern hemis

Getaway - Plettenberg Bay
On the shores of the Indian Ocean, Plettenberg Bay opens onto a fertile land surrounded by the Outeniqua and Tsitsikama mountains. As a resort it provides visitors with facilities for diving, sailing, boating and sunbathing on immense sandy beaches: the bay and lagoons offer a multitude of possibil

Getaway - Robben Island
This island, situated 12 kilometres from Cape Town, is an exceptional site, the name of which symbolises the fight against oppression and the victory of freedom. For four hundred years it served as a prison for convicts, political prisoners in particular, the most famous of which was Nelson Mandela

Getaway - Serengeti National Park
To the north-east of Tanzania, between Lake Victoria and the border with Kenya, there is a huge territory of thousands of hectares of savannah, plains, forests and rivers which makes up Serengeti National Park. “The place where the earth stretches away to infinity”, as the Maasai kno

Getaway - Singita Private Game Reserve
In the South African State of Mpumalanga, adjoining the Kruger National Park, the Singita area has been converted from a hunting ground into an animal reserve. Singita means "Miracle" in the local language (Shangaan) and this is the impression you get in the midst of this land covered with wild f

Getaway - The Garden Route
To the southeast of South Africa, along the Indian Ocean coast and continuing inland, the Garden Route runs through one of the most beautiful wild landscapes in the country, or even in the world. There is a succession of forests, lakes, rivers, mountains and valleys, covered with a unique, pastel-

Getaway - Tsitsikamma National Park
Tsitsikamma ("Place of much water" in Khoisan) is situated on the Garden Route along the Indian Ocean coast in the Eastern Cape State of South Africa. Its particularity is that it is both a land and maritime nature park, protecting miles of land and coastal areas, as well as an extremely beautiful

Getaway - Waterberg Mountain
Nestling in the heart of Waterberg Mountain, the Marakele National Park in Limpopo province is where the dry western region and humid eastern region of South Africa meet. On this rich, mountainous land, plants and trees unique throughout the world (some species of which date back to prehistoric tim

Getaway - Windhoek
Built in the central region of Namibia, Windhoek is the most western of the country's towns. Its late 19th century buildings are surprising in this wild environment, emphasised by the Auas and Eros mountains. With a strong German culture influence (the country's former settlers), it has a Germanic

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