Cape Coast
You can lie on the beach and enjoy delicious seafood and relax yourself here. It’s also a good base for drives along the coast or for visits to nearby Portuguese beach fortresses. It’s an interesting place to visit and contains the grave of British poet Letitia Elizabeth Landon. Cape Coast hosts a major festival, the Pan African Historic Theatre Festival (also known as Panafest), in odd-numbered years. Music, dance, drums and stage performances celebrate the cause of Pan-Africanism. Cape Coast is also a good base for visiting the lush rain forest of the Kakum Nature Reserve.
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The variety of scenic landscapes is fascinating as well, ranging from burnt-out deserts and arid savannahs through idyllic green rolling hills and fertile valleys to dramatically shaped alpine mountains with snow-covered peaks. A couple of thousands of kilometres of coastline hem the country. Rough, melancholy and harsh in the west, the beaches on the east coast are mild and Mediterranean, and the north-east coast is tropically warm.
The great variety opens up innumerable ways to spend a holiday. Enjoy leisurely walks in the lovely mountains of the Winelands, a beach run on the wild Atlantic coast, fly-fishing for
Cape Maclear
Cape Maclear is the most famous beach and very popular with the independent travellers. Cape Maclear spreads for about 5km’s along the beach. To find a place to stay it is best to get there quite early and have a look around to find a decent place to stay. Do not expect any exclusive lodge, but most places have now good & clean accommodation, along with bars, restaurants, activities and hammocks to laze in. There are also a number of good restaurants with local fare. It is no surprise that fish Barbeques and chicken are the favorites here. You
Saldanha, Western Cape, South Africa
The focal point of this Park is the Langebaan Lagoon, but with miles of pristine golden beaches stretching into the early morning mist and brooding salt marshes.Just inland from the scheduled harbour of Saldanha Bay one finds the azure waters of the Langebaan Lagoon, focal point of the West Coast National Park.
Thousands of seabirds roost on the sheltered islands, pristine golden beaches stretch endlessly into the early morning mist and brooding salt marshes are home to vast concentrations of migrant waders from the northern hemisphere.
During the spring the strandveld is embroidered with a tapestry of
Elmina
Elmina is a small fishing village with a fort and a castle. It is a great place to relax, especially in the beginning of July, when the Bakatue festival is held.
As well as all the other forts and castles at the costline of Ghana, Fort St Jago and Elmina Castle have their origin in the colonial past of the country:
The fort was buildt by the Portuguese to protect the village they concured from Dutch and English invasders. At that time, the Dutch owned Cape Cost castle and tryed to concure the whole coastline there.
Elmina Castle was buildt
St Lucia, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa
A very special slice of Africa, the Greater St Lucia Wetland Park offers ecotourists some of the most diverse wildlife and outdoor experiences imaginable.
A very special slice of Africa, the Greater St Lucia Wetland Park offers ecotourists some of the most diverse wildlife and outdoor experiences imaginable.
Besides Lake St Lucia - a unique, 38 000 ha expanse of lake, islands and estuary - the park incorporates an astonishing variety of habitats ranging from the Ubombo mountains to grasslands, forests, wetlands, mangroves and vegetated dunes, with magnificent beaches and coral reefs.
The Greater St Lucia Wetland
