South Africa – Your Safari Destination
Many travellers do not really equate Africa with luxury.
In the imaginations of the uninitiated, the entire continent is often conjured up as a near inhabitable zone of desolate, rugged terrain, not meant to be explored by anyone other than the most hardy adventurers and adrenaline junkies.
So they toss their dreams of finally experiencing an African safari aside and opt for another trip to elsewhere in Europe or the US instead.
The truth is that Africa has plenty to offer the faint hearted, non-outdoorsy types too.
From coast to coast, South Africa literally brims with luxury safari lodges and five star private game reserves with plenty of world class amenities rivalling (or sometimes even exceeding) those offered by any first world, five star hotel.
No need to sweat it in the African heat. You can have an air-conditioned room! Feeling cut off from the rest of the world after having travelled so many hours to reach far-flung South Africa? Then satellite television will provide your daily news fix via CNN or the BBC. Or rid yourself from the jet lag by booking into the spa for some well-deserved pampering.
You needn’t leopard crawl through the bush or stalk the Big Five on foot in an attempt to catch a glimpse of them.
But all these creature comforts at your fingertips in the heart of Africa needn’t make you worry that your experience won’t be ‘African’ enough. At many of these facilities, it is truly a collision between the two worlds, offering visitors the best of both of them.
