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So you’ve ticked off safaris,
diving, and bungee
jumping from your South
Africa bucket list? We have
five experiences that will
bring you to the country
again, and often.S
easoned travellers who’ve
fallen in love with South
Africa and wish to visit again,
this is the next step—dig
deeper into the country and fi nd out
why global travellers are coming back
for seconds.ALTERNATIVE SAFARIS
Did you know that there’s more to
safaris than the Big 5? In South
Africa’s national parks, look for the
Little Five that includes buffalo
weaver, leopard tortoise, the ant
lion, rhinoceros beetle, and elephant
shrew; the Ugly 5 group of hyena,
marabou stork, vulture, warthog,
and wildebeest; or the Magnifi cent
7 that has lion, leopard, rhino,
elephant, buffalo, Southern Right
whales, and Great White sharks.ON GROUND AND UNDER
South Africa is home to the largest
cave system in Africa, Cango Caves
in Oudtshoorn, Western Cape. Take a
two-hour caving tour deeper into the
underground passageways to see
chambers and rock formations. Or,
if you want to up the adventure, go
kloofi ng at the Suicide Gorge in the
Western Cape that involves hiking,
jumping off cliffs into water streams,
and sliding in the waters. A freefall
of 68 metres from the gorge swingFrom above:
Nelson
Mandela’s
statue affront
the Union
Buildings in
Pretoria; on
volunteering
projects, one
learns to track
the wellbeing
of rhinoceroses,
this in
Hluhluwe-
Imfolozi Park.WAIT,
THERE’S
MORE!
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