South Africa

South Africa, or the “Rainbow Country”, is a very diverse country with eleven official languages, stunning landscapes and booming cities, like Johannesburg in the North and Cape Town in the South. After the end of the political and economical isolation because of the racist, white Apartheid regime, the new democratic and free South Africa was born in 1994 as Nelson Mandela became president of the country.

South Africa extremes include snow in the Drakensberg Mountains, subtropical beaches along the Zululand coast in KwaZulu Natal, the arid semidesert of the Karoo and the Mediterranean climate in the Western Cape around Cape Town.

For backpackers and individual tourists South Africa is almost a paradise. Buses and trains are connecting all places of interest, hostels and camp sites all over the country and a backpacker culture, which is pretty unique in the World.