South Africa Hotel

Places & Activities

Activities
Adventure Sports   |   General Sports   |   Shopping Trips and Rides and Trails   |    Water Activities   |   Wildlife Activities
Attractions
Cultural / Historic / Religious   |   Educational Entertainment Leisure   |   Nature Attractions

Wildlife Activities

South Africa is home to an abundance of wildlife and bush activities abound. You can choose to just watch some of the many beautiful species of birds that this country has been blessed with by taking bird tours in any province that you visit or go game viewing at any time in many of our major parks that operate day and night game viewing tours or enjoy an enlightening game walk.

There are just plenty of activities that you can enjoy in the South African wild

A Whale of a Time
Leaving behind their icy feeding grounds off Antarctica, the Southern Rights head for warmer climates to mate and calve

Vulture Culture
Vultures like to sit down to a good meal, but unlike other animals they are quite specific about what’s on the menu. These rather ugly birds only eat the meat of dead animals, so they can be tricky dinner guests…

When Southern Africa was a wild and rugged place, with not too many humans on the horizon – finding a delectable meal was quite easy for the vulture moms and dads. However, in more recent times things have got a bit more complicated. The advent of farming meant that the herds of wild animals were replaced with well-managed herds of livestock. Animal carcasses were few and far between and often times when a cow or bull died, the farmers would bury the animal to avoid possible disease. Another threat the vultures have had to face is poisoning (often, courtesy of poachers). The ever-increasing presence of power lines and the steady destruction of their natural habitat meant that population numbers began to dwindle.

Take to the Trees
When the world weighs so heavily upon your shoulders that you feel like you’re dragging your knuckles on the ground, it’s probably time to take to the trees. There are some lovely tree houses in the bushveld regions of South Africa, where you can breakfast on a branch, make love on a limb, or just sloth right out of this cynical world, where Tarzan eats Kentucky Fried and carries a cell phone.

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