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	SOUTH AFRICA is, as the name says, southern tip of Africa. Its long coastline stretches 2,500km from the desert border with Namibia on the Atlantic coast all the way round to the border with subtropical Mozambique on the Indian Ocean. The low-lying coastal zone is narrow for much of that distance, giving way to a mountainous escarpment that leads up to the high inland plateau. In a few places, notably the province of KwaZulu-Natal in the east, a the coast is some distance from the escarpment.

South Africa Tour

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Kruger & The Cape

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Cape Town & The Garden Route

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The country is classified as semi-arid, although it has considerable variation in climate as well as topography. The great inland Karoo plateau, where rocky hills and mountains rise from sparsely populated scrubland, is very dry, and gets more so as it shades in the north-west towards the Kalahari desert. Extremely hot in summer, it can be icy in winter. In contrast, the eastern coastline is lush and well watered, a stranger to frost. The southern coast, part of which is known as the Garden Route, is rather less tropical but also green, as is the Cape of Good Hope - the latter especially in winter. This south-western corner of the country has a 'Mediterranean'-like climate, with wet winters and hot, dry summers. Its most famous climatic characteristic is its wind, which blows intermittently virtually all year round, either from the south-east or the north-west.