| About South Africa | ||
| Flora & Fauna | ||
| Wild Flowers | ||
| South Africa has the third-highest level of biodiversity in the world. The Table Mountain National Park alone has more plant species than all British Islands together or New Zealand. The Cape floral kingdom with its size of 0,05 of the earth´s land area contains roughly 3% of the world´s plant species. Of the 9 600 species of vascular plants (plants with vessels for bearing sap) found here, about 70% are endemic, i.e. occur nowhere else on earth. The areas freshwater and marine environments are similarly unique, with plants and animals adapted to highly specialised environments. | ||
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| Wildlife | ||
| Wildlife on the tip of the continent is simply spectacular. And when it comes to fauna, the kingdom boasts 11 000 marine animal species, 3 500 of which are endemic, and 560 vertebrate species, including 142 reptile species of which 27 are endemic. Nearly all of Africa’s classic big-game species can be found in South Africa’s parks and reserves. | ||
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| National Parks | ||
| With more than 20 National Parks in South Africa, including two of the world´s most renowned wildlife reserves, the Kruger Park and the galagadi Transfrontier Park, your venture to any of the South African National Parks will transfer you into another world. Explore Hluhluwe, Tsitsikamma, Pilanesberg, Kgalagadi, Addo, Karoo, Marakele, Drakensberk, Mkuze, Sodwana, Augrabies, Ithala and many more. | ||
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| World Heritage Sites | ||
| There are 812 World Heritage sites in the world, in 137 countries. Africa has 65 sites. The most famous Sites are the Cape floral kingdom, Robben Island, the Greater St Lucia Wetland Park, Sterkfontein Cradle of Mankind, the uKhahlamba-Drakensberg Park, the Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape, the Vredefort Dome and Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden, which displays outstanding ecological and biological processes associated with the Fynbos vegetation unique in the world. | ||
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