Exploring Top 3 Natural Attractions in South Africa
South Africa is incredibly famous for its landscape, cultures, and wildlife preserves. It is a kind of home for many great wild animals like elephants, giraffes, rhinos, crocodiles, lions, and many more. These animals were formerly left free in the forest or savanna.
Because of a great number of persecutions happened to the animals, some wildlife preserve were established in South Africa to protect the animals from extinction. Travelers visiting South Africa are able to see the elephants, leopards, crocodiles, ostrich, and even whales in their habitats or natural preserves resembling their habitats.
Kruger National Park
Kruger National Park as one of the largest national parks in South Africa lies in about 19 thousand kilometers square wide. It offers the visitors with 9 different packages of tour in the park including the honeymoon package and family holiday package. More than 27,000 African buffaloes, 3,000 hippopotamus, 3,000 crocodiles and only 350 African wild dog make the Kruger National Park as their house as well as 50 species of fishes including sharks.
In Kruger National Park, visitors are able to experience a safari wildlife where they can directly see the animals doing their natural habits from the pickup truck.
Cango Wildlife Ranch
This is the best place to experience the thrilling sensation of interacting with the wild animals – the fierce one such as crocodiles and lions included. One of the most thrilling one is Croc Cage Diving Encounter, an attraction that put someone inside a cage and insert the cage into a lake where crocodiles live. This kind of attraction is not allowed for children under 12 years old while those under 16 years old shouldn’t experience this attraction alone.
This attraction is very much scaring since the crocodiles underwater is not a cute small crocodile but the species of Nile crocodiles – the biggest species of crocodile on earth. Only in this place, visitors are able to feel the sensation of becoming the prey of crocodiles.
Hermanus
People interested in sighting whales – mammals usually aren’t available at the zoo – can go to Hermanus during Southern Winter, usually in June until September, and see a school of Southern Right Whales moving in the sea. The whales can be seen from the cliffs and hills in Hermanus, a town in the West of South Africa. Every year, the people in Hermanus also hold a whale festival to greet the whales for coming back to the waters near the town.
Besides those 3 sites to see wild animals in South Africa, tens of the other animal-attraction sites are available. South Africa is such a paradise for the nature lovers loving to see the lives of animals in their natural environment.
