The many national parks have a rich fauna and flora and are popular tourist attractions not to be missed. The Krüger Park is the largest of them and there exist all kinds of animals, from hummingbirds to elephants.

South Africa’s wine district, today fairly well known, is situated to the west, just north of Cape Town. Further north you will find the gold mines. It was here that the trouble between the Englishmen and the Boers started.

At the coast outside Cape Town the Atlantic Ocean meets the Indian Ocean. A bit farther east along the Garden Route lies Durban with its white beaches and waters that make surfers from all over the world grow lyrical. A distance into the mainland lies Johannesburg on almost 2.000 meters’ altitude above sea level, and a couple of great stone's throws north, Pretoria, the capital, is situated. South Africa’s counterpart to Las Vegas in the USA – Sun City - is not very far from there, to the west.

South Africa is an independent country and member of the British Commonwealth. It was Vasco de Gama who first rounded the Cape of Good Hope, and it was he who founded the Cape in 1498. Since then many ships have been wrecked at the myth-surrounded cape. Eventually the Dutch decided to build a city where so many people were shipwrecked. Today the city is called Cape Town and is considered one of the most beautiful cities in the world.