South Africa : The Bradt Budget Travel Guide

by Paul Ash

• ISBN13: 9781841620312
• ISBN10: 1841620319
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2001-08-01
• Publisher: Bradt Travel Guides

Summary

A guide for budget travellers of all ages to ensure their stay in South Africa is as entertaining and economical as possible Practical information covering hostels transport and eating out is supplemented by affordable adventure and cultural activities

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. IX
General Information	p. 1
Background Information	p. 3
Facts and figures	p. 3
Politics and economy	p. 5
Climate and geography	p. 6
Natural history	p. 7
History	p. 13
Practical Information	p. 25
Tourist information and services	p. 25
Red tape	p. 28
What to take	p. 29
Electricity	p. 29
Money	p. 30
Eating and drinking	p. 32
Shopping	p. 32
Media and communications	p. 33
Photography	p. 34
Local time	p. 35
Health	p. 35
Safety	p. 47
Giving something back	p. 48
Budget Travel in South Africa	p. 51
Getting there	p. 51
Getting around	p. 52
Accommodation	p. 62
Food	p. 64
Activities	p. 65
Budget itineraries	p. 68
South Africa for free	p. 71
The Guide	p. 73
The Capital Cities	p. 75
Pretoria	p. 75
Johannesburg	p. 83
Cape Town	p. 99
Orientation	p. 102
Practical details	p. 103
Getting there and away	p. 104
Getting around	p. 104
Safety	p. 107
Accommodation	p. 109
Eating and drinking	p. 111
Things to see and do	p. 113
Outside Cape Town	p. 115
The beaches	p. 118
Western Cape	p. 125
Practical details	p. 125
Getting there and around	p. 126
Accommodation	p. 127
Things to see and do	p. 128
Worcester and the Hex River Pass	p. 130
The Overberg	p. 131
The West Coast, Namaqualand and the Kalahari Desert	p. 141
West Coast	p. 141
Things to see and do	p. 143
Namaqualand	p. 147
Into the Kalahari	p. 152
On to Namibia	p. 154
The Garden Route	p. 157
History	p. 158
Getting there and away	p. 158
Heidelberg to Gouritzmond	p. 159
Mossel Bay	p. 160
George	p. 162
Knysna	p. 167
Buffels Bay	p. 169
Goukamma Nature Reserve	p. 169
The Knysna Forests	p. 170
Plettenberg Bay	p. 171
The Tsitkamma Coast	p. 173
Into the Little Karoo	p. 177
Tourist information	p. 178
Getting there and away	p. 178
Getting around	p. 178
The Langkloof	p. 185
The Baviaanskloof Wilderness Area	p. 186
Settler Country and the Eastern Cape	p. 189
History	p. 189
Getting there	p. 191
Jeffrey's Bay	p. 192
Cape St Francis	p. 193
Port Elizabeth	p. 194
Grahamstown	p. 197
The Sunshine Coast	p. 199
Port Alfred	p. 200
Bathurst	p. 201
East London	p. 202
The Wild Coast and Transkei	p. 205
The Eastern Cape Interior	p. 212
KwaZulu-Natal	p. 215
History	p. 215
Durban	p. 218
North from Durban	p. 225
Pietermaritzburg	p. 226
The Natal Midlands and Eshayamoya Country	p. 228
The Natal Drakensberg	p. 229
Into Lesotho	p. 236
South from Durban	p. 237
Into Zululand	p. 239
The battlefields route	p. 239
Ladysmith	p. 242
Weenen and Darkest Africa	p. 243
Maputaland	p. 245
The Greater St Lucia Wetland Park	p. 247
Coastal Forest Reserve	p. 251
Mpumalanga	p. 253
History	p. 253
Getting there and away	p. 255
Getting around	p. 256
Down to the Escarpment	p. 256
The lowveld and big game country	p. 261
Kruger National Park	p. 263
Moving on to Mozambique	p. 267
The Northern Province	p. 269
History	p. 269
Getting there and away	p. 255
Warmbaths	p. 271
Pietersburg	p. 272
Into the great, wide open	p. 272
The Wolkberg Wilderness Area	p. 275
Magoebaskloof	p. 276
Venda	p. 278
On to Zimbabwe	p. 278
The Free State	p. 279
Bloemfontein	p. 280
In the foothills of the Malutis	p. 281
Qwa-Qwa National Park	p. 282
Rustlers Valley	p. 282
Zastron	p. 283
Bethlehem	p. 283
Harrismith	p. 284
Heading into Lesotho	p. 284
The Great Karoo	p. 287
Getting there and away	p. 288
Kimberley	p. 290
Magersfontein	p. 294
Heading south	p. 295
Calvinia	p. 296
Beaufort West	p. 297
Laingsburg	p. 298
Matjiesfontein	p. 298
Colesberg and the Upper Karoo	p. 300
Nieu Bethesda	p. 302
Graaff Reinet	p. 303
Cradock	p. 305
Cross-Border Excursions	p. 307
Into Swaziland	p. 307
Into Mozambique	p. 310
Glossary	p. 315
Further Reading	p. 319
Index	p. 323
List of Maps
Bloemfontein
Cape Peninsula
Cape Town central
Cedarberg Wilderness Area
Drakensberg
Durban
Eastern Cape Coast
Eastern Cape Interior
East London
Free State
Garden Route
George
Johannesburg central
Johannesburg environs
Johannesburg/Pretoria area
Karoo
Kimberley
Knysna
Kruger National Park
Kwa-Zulu Natal
Little Karoo
Maputaland and Hluhluwe-Umfolozi National Park
Mpumalanga Escarpment and Lowveld
Mpumalanga area
Mpumalanga, Northern Province and Kruger Park
Northeast
Oudtshoorn
Port Alfred
Port Elizabeth
Pretoria central
South Africa
Stellenbosch
West Coast, Namaqualand and Northern Cape
Western Cape
Wild Coast
Zululand
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