South+African+land+knowledge


 * __South African land knowledge and tourist attractions__**

===//South Africa is a beutiful country with alot of atractions with a brght landscape and alot of sunshine, it is located South in Africa //=== ===To the north lie Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe; to the east are Mozambique and Swaziland; while Lesotho is an independent country wholly surrounded by South African territory. === ===Some of the best things about South Africa is The winelands and all the different wine sorts, Drakenberg the mountain range rising high up in the skies, Pretoria and Cape town is some beutiful towns. And the climate is not bad either. ===

=__Land knowledge__=

-The climatic zones vary, from extreme deserts in the south to subtropical zones in the east -South Africa has summer in September, January and February and winter in June, July and August -South afica is also famous very famous for all the sunshine, it does almost never rain there, so South africa is a relatively dry country. But South africa is also a little colder than other countries on the same latitude, probably because South afica is higher over the sea level.
 * ===**Climate**===

The country is 5 times bigger than Great Britain. But South Africa is a very beautiful country. From north to south, from west to east, we can find all kinds of landscapes from areas with luxuriant vegetation to semi-desertic ones, and from mountainous landscapes to super beaches.
 * ===**Landscape**===

There are numerous of wine growing areas in South Africa but most of the wine comes from the area we know as ¨The winelands¨ . The production of wine has shaped the lands of this areas in over 300 years and it has been proposed as a **World Heritage Cultural Landscape.** And with the bright green wineyards stretching out against the purple mountains with the red roses around is a beautiful sight.
 * ===**Winelands**===

Pretty as it is and with the wine many things is pretty good, restaurants, coffee shops, and atractive guest houses the wine lands has become beautiful atractions that still becomes more and more user friendly

-It's the biggest mountain range in the country, the range is located in the eastern part of south Africa, It stretches from south-west to north-east over 1000km. The highest peak is Thabana Ntlenyana, which literary means ¨beautiful little peak¨. Those mountains does also have the worlds second highest waterfall, the Tugela Falls.
 * ===**Drakensberg**===

The local name (Zulu) is Quathambla that means ¨The barrier of spears¨ an accurate description for the mountains that rises over 3000 meters in air

-The home of 299 various bird species. There is one bird that is endemic to the high peaks, the Mountain Pipit, while another six are found mainly here: Bush Blackcap, Buff-streaked Chat, Rudd's Lark, Orange-breasted Rock-jumper, Yellow-breasted Pipit, and Drakensberg Siskin. The endangered Cape Vulture and Lesser Kestrel are two of the birds of prey that hunt in the mountains.

-It has between 35000 and 40000 works of bushmen art

Bushmen where the earliest inhabitants living in this region. they lived in harmony with animals and nature, asking for nothing more than was needed for their survival. But the incoming of the white settlers changed everything and led to the tribes destruction -It's not a very big city, -Pretoria become a city 14. October 1931. -The city have many different names;( Pretoria, Tshwane, iPitoli, iTswani, Pitoria) -In Pretoria they speak allot different languages ( Pedi, Afrikaans, Tswana, Tsongo, Zulu and English )
 * ==**Pretoria**==

> -Got its own natural beauty and its one of the most attrictive cities in the world -Cape Town got beautiful beaches and the impressive Table Mountain who lies right in the middle of the city -The food and wine there are world class -The city viewed from the ocean
 * ===-**Cape Town:**===

** -Kruger National Park: **
-You can hunt for wild animals or take pictures of the landscape -One of the biggest safaris in South Africa -Lies in the east of the country The landscape of the park

Sources:

[] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kruger_National_Park