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...travelers can take a walk in the wild under the supervision of trained game rangers. Near Vendaland, in the northern part of Kruger National Park, which marks its centennial this year, Chief Joao Makuleke and his tribe have reclaimed ancestral land on which they will be allowed to operate tourist lodges in cooperation with the private sector and the park's board. In a similar land-restitution deal in the northwestern Cape's Kalahari Gemsbok Park, descendants of the San, or bushmen, will soon be offering visitors the chance to accompany them on a game trail and learn the secrets...
South Africa's diversity--from spectacular wilderness to civilized viticulture, from the complexities of tribal life to the ease of luxury rail travel, from exotic safaris to brassy casinos--is the key to its allure. The primary tourist attractions continue to be game parks and an abundance of spectacular scenery, which draw at least one-third of all vacationing visitors. The menu is being broadened to highlight South Africa's unique heritage of European and African settlement, tribal and colonial wars, pioneer voortrekkers and legendary explorers--and its rich cultural...
...government drew up a marketing strategy linking tourist developments with community-based tourism products and services. It is also offering tourism training and assistance, including loans and tax concessions, to small businesses. As a result, bed-and-breakfasts have become big business as well as a bargain for holiday makers. Stellenbosch, a historic settler community in a picturesque winelands region 30 miles from Cape Town, has 105 registered bed-and-breakfasts. SATOUR has issued a 254-page accommodation guide that lists 1,877 establishments. Some are luxury guest houses, but many are in the easily affordable $20-to-$30 daily...
...country has redesigned its network of well-established walks, trails and camping facilities to bring backpackers into closer contact with community-based tourist services. Escorted tours extend even to remote cultural homelands where visitors can watch Ndebele potters and beadworkers create their wares or admire the sandstone and ironwood creations of Sotho and Zulu sculptors...
Cape Town, in the south, remains the country's key tourist destination, visited by more than half of all foreign vacationers. Over the past two years, 30 new hotels have opened, doubling capacity. The city holds one of the most potent symbols of the new--and old--South Africa: a 30-minute cruise away from its Waterfront lies Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela spent most of his 27 years of imprisonment. It is now a museum and national monument. In the nearby hinterland, the Mediterranean-style wine lands provide travelers with more evidence of change: a growing number of wineries...