South Africa Accommodation | South Africa Accommodation Directory

South Africa Accommodation - www.Africaninvitation.com has many South African accommodations to choose from. Whether you are looking for a homely atmosphere in a Self Catering unit, Bed and Breakfast or accommodation in a luxurious Guest House or South Africa Hotel Accommodation, we have it all.

South Africa Travel and Tourism Information with www.africaninvitation.com:

South Africa is the land of abundance when it comes to natural beauty. It's the third most biologically diverse country in the world, which means there's a national park to suit every preference. From arid deserts to lush coastal forests, majestic mountains and bushveld.

The animals in South Africa alone are good enough reason to visit. One of the world's first wildlife conservation areas was South Africa's Kruger Park, more than a century old. Today it is just one part of a single broad conservation area that spans private and public game parks, and even stretches across national borders into neighbouring Mozambique and Zimbabwe. An hour's drive from such urban jungles as Pretoria and Johannesburg, you can see lions, elephants, buffalo and hundreds more species in their natural environments. South Africa is also a bird watchers' paradise.

Best known are the mammals. The best known of these are the famous Big Five: elephant, lion, rhino, leopard and buffalo. Not that the giraffe, hippo or whale are small.

Featured Animal: The Hippopotamus
The hippopotamus is a large, mostly plant-eating African mammal, one of only two extant species in the family Hippopotamidae (the other being the Pygmy Hippopotamus).
The hippopotamus is semi-aquatic, inhabiting rivers and lakes in sub-Saharan Africa in groups of 5-30 hippos. During the day they remain cool by staying in the water or mud; reproduction and childbirth both occur in water, where territorial bulls preside over a stretch of river.
They emerge at dusk to graze on grass. While hippos rest near each other in territories in the water, grazing is a solitary activity and hippos are not territorial on land. Despite their physical resemblance to pigs and other terrestrial even-toed ungulates, their closest living relatives are cetaceans (whales, porpoise, etc.).

For tourists, South Africa is as safe as any other destination in the world. South Africa boasts a vast array of cultures, communities, sites and attractions. Most parts of the country can be safely visited by tourists provided they take basic common-sense precautions (for example not walking alone in deserted areas at night and being circumspect about how much photographic equipment or flashy jewellery you carry Most of the crime that takes place in South Africa is between people who know each other and random acts of violence are the minority of cases. Most major cities run organized crime prevention programs Basic Safety Tip guidelines will be available at hotel accommodation and tourism information offices.