South Africa offers everything from ostrich riding to the world's highest bungee jump. Excellent hiking trails, surfing and hang-gliding take advantage of the incredible landscape.
August 7, 2006 (Press Release) --
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South Africa offers everything from ostrich riding to the world's highest bungee jump. Excellent hiking trails, wildlife safaris, surfing and hang-gliding take advantage of the incredible landscape. Bird-watchers and flower sniffers love it here too, and South Africans have taken to mountain biking in such a big way that you'll find trails almost everywhere.
Money & Prices
Average Cost of rooms per night:
Economy/Budget: 40-150
Average: 150-250
Executive: 250-300
Deluxe: 300+
Sample Prices:
small bottle of beer: 7.30 Rand
36 exposure film: 43.00 Rand
hamburger and chips: 25.00 Rand
bottle of wine: 60.00 Rand
car hire per day: 250.00 Rand
kilo of mangoes: 6.00 Rand
Kruger NP entry: 120.00 Rand
surfboard: 1600.00 Rand
litre of petrol: 5.50 Rand
litre of bottled water: 5.00 Rand
can of Black Label beer: 6.00 Rand
souvenir t-shirt: 60.00 Rand
street snack (roasted mealie): 2.00 Rand
Books & guides
Allister Sparks: The Mind of South Africa(history/politics)
History books incorporating post-1994 developments are starting to appear. One such tome is The Mind of South Africa, which is opinionated, readable and insightful.
Nelson Mandela: Long Road to Freedom(non-fiction)
Mandela's exhaustive autobiography is compulsory reading.
Rian Malan: My Traitor's Heart(non-fiction)
This book is the outstanding autobiography of a white South African attempting to come to terms with his heritage and his future.
Laurens van der Post: The Lost World of the Kalahari(culture)
Laurens van der Post provides a poetic interpretation of San culture in this work.
Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa: Indaba My Children(culture)
Folk tales, history, legends, customs and beliefs have all been bundled together in this book.
Charles and Tilde Stuart: Mammals of Southern Africa(pictorial)
If you're going thingummy-spotting, Mammals of Southern Africa could be useful.
Nadine Gordimer: The Conservationist(fiction)
Gordimer, the most-lauded South African fiction writer, won a Booker Prize for The Conservationist in 1974. Her novel turns a merciless eye on South Africa's people and their interaction.
J M Coetzee: Disgrace(fiction)
Coetzee won the 1999 Booker Prize for this cynical examination of South African society.
Source: http://www.yahoo.com
South Africa offers everything from ostrich riding to the world's highest bungee jump. Excellent hiking trails, wildlife safaris, surfing and hang-gliding take advantage of the incredible landscape. Bird-watchers and flower sniffers love it here too, and South Africans have taken to mountain biking in such a big way that you'll find trails almost everywhere.
Money & Prices
Average Cost of rooms per night:
Economy/Budget: 40-150
Average: 150-250
Executive: 250-300
Deluxe: 300+
Sample Prices:
small bottle of beer: 7.30 Rand
36 exposure film: 43.00 Rand
hamburger and chips: 25.00 Rand
bottle of wine: 60.00 Rand
car hire per day: 250.00 Rand
kilo of mangoes: 6.00 Rand
Kruger NP entry: 120.00 Rand
surfboard: 1600.00 Rand
litre of petrol: 5.50 Rand
litre of bottled water: 5.00 Rand
can of Black Label beer: 6.00 Rand
souvenir t-shirt: 60.00 Rand
street snack (roasted mealie): 2.00 Rand
Books & guides
Allister Sparks: The Mind of South Africa(history/politics)
History books incorporating post-1994 developments are starting to appear. One such tome is The Mind of South Africa, which is opinionated, readable and insightful.
Nelson Mandela: Long Road to Freedom(non-fiction)
Mandela's exhaustive autobiography is compulsory reading.
Rian Malan: My Traitor's Heart(non-fiction)
This book is the outstanding autobiography of a white South African attempting to come to terms with his heritage and his future.
Laurens van der Post: The Lost World of the Kalahari(culture)
Laurens van der Post provides a poetic interpretation of San culture in this work.
Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa: Indaba My Children(culture)
Folk tales, history, legends, customs and beliefs have all been bundled together in this book.
Charles and Tilde Stuart: Mammals of Southern Africa(pictorial)
If you're going thingummy-spotting, Mammals of Southern Africa could be useful.
Nadine Gordimer: The Conservationist(fiction)
Gordimer, the most-lauded South African fiction writer, won a Booker Prize for The Conservationist in 1974. Her novel turns a merciless eye on South Africa's people and their interaction.
J M Coetzee: Disgrace(fiction)
Coetzee won the 1999 Booker Prize for this cynical examination of South African society.
Source: http://www.yahoo.com
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