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Falling in love with Cape Town

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| By Lonely Planet

The Old Town Hall building South Africa’s Mother City, with its cloud-draped Table Mountain, golden beaches and bountiful vineyards, captures people’s hearts. Read more…

South Africa's Western Cape: The secret coast

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| By James Bainbridge, Lonely Planet

Bokkoms hang outside an Afrikaans shop South Africa’s West Coast is still a local secret. With its long, empty beaches and fishing towns, it is where South Africans go on holiday and one of the few areas where people address you in Afrikaans. Read more…

Lonely Planet's top five wildlife parks in South Africa

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| By Lonely Planet

Zebra in Kruger National Park South Africa is home to penguins and flamingos, great white sharks and majestic African elephants, and many other wild animals that will amaze visitors. The best parks have diverse landscapes that are home to many species seen nowhere else on earth. Read more…

South Africa's Trans-Karoo express

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| By James Bainbridge, Lonely Planet

Kimberley, capital of the Northern Cape Chugging out of Johannesburg’s razor wire-wrapped suburbs on the Trans-Karoo Express, and looking forward to an overnight journey to Cape Town, is an exhilarating experience. Read more…

The magical Kalahari desert

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Kalahari bushmen (San) surveying their land A voyage to the Kalahari is akin to catapulting into a parallel universe. Timeless and magical, solitary stretches of space spin on into infinity and shapes distort under a blanket of scorching desert heat. Read more…

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