5 Amazing Scenic Places You Must Visit In Africa
Thinking about spoiling yourself after all you’ve been through emotionally, financially, or medically this year? Searching for amazing spots to visit for a family vacation? Need places to visit to enjoy some downtime during the holiday season, after all the hustle and bustle of the year? Or are you a foreigner simply interested in acquainting yourself with the much-professed beauty that is Africa? Then allow me to take you on a journey to five amazing scenes in Africa that you simply must visit.
But before I begin, you need to know certain things to look out for when picking a tourist site.
How To Pick A Tourist Site
When choosing tourist sites to visit, there are certain things you must look out for as an individual, a couple, or even a whole family. Factors such as individual interests, budget, time, climate, the season, travel deals, travel destination, safety, and even instincts, go a long way in helping one choose a travel destination.
Interests
The first factor to consider when choosing a travel destination is whether it provides you with services that comprise your interests, desires, or goals. Sit down and ask yourself, “What floats my boat?” Then write them down and use that outline to select travel destinations.
If you’re traveling with your family or significant other, you might also want to get their opinion on it so as to prevent disagreements in the long run.
Budget
Another very vital factor that needs to be put into consideration when choosing a travel destination is your budget. You must first come to an agreement on how much you intend to spend on this trip, so you don’t wind up with unnecessary debts that will give even more headaches than you tried to cure with the vacation. 😅
In order to draft a rational budget one has to:
- Determine the budget (especially in terms of feeding and accommodation). Do you plan to eat in restaurants or would you rather buy food from convenience stores? Would you like to sleep in fancy hotels or would you be able to tough it up in hostels or campgrounds?
- Research costs of living. Write a list of everything you think you might need in the course of the trip and make sure it doesn’t exceed the overall amount you budgeted from the start. You might need to consider the exchange rate between your currency and that of where you want to visit if you’re visiting another country.
- Trip duration. Will it be a brief trip or a long one? This matters a lot.
- Consider travel deals. Look out for minimal cost travel deals that will still provide decent accommodation, food, travel fare, and facilities.
Time
Time, climate, and season are also very important when deciding on a travel destination. For example, you might not want to visit Lekki beach in Lagos, Nigeria during the rainy season. Somewhere more indoors will be a better pick during that period.
Wherever the destination you decide to tour will be, you must first check out the weather at the time you are visiting and decide if it will be tolerable for you and your travel companions (if any), which should obviously be based on age and health conditions (medical history or current health).
Instincts
The place of instincts in planning is usually undermined but they have gone a long way in helping man make decisions right from the dawn of time. Even down to choosing tourist sites, you need to learn to trust your guts and go with the site you vibe the most with.
Now that we know how to pick a travel destination, picking tourist sites becomes easy because your options have been narrowed down to the geographical area your destination spans.
Having an itinerary will help singularize and organize your focus and movement, so it is very important that you create one when going on a travel tour. Having these two in place, we are now set to check out the five amazing scenes in Africa 😋
5 Amazing Scenes You Must Visit In Africa
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The beautiful caves that are displayed here are all in different locations in Africa. Locations, ratings, time, price, and even accommodation details are all listed below to get you completely in the know of where you want to make your next tourist visit.
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Sudwala Caves
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With a 4.5 star rating, Sudwala caves in Mpumalanga, South Africa boasts amazing feats such as being known as the oldest caves in the world. It was also said to have been inhabited by the early human ancestor Homo habilis, who was said to have also worked in parts of the caves some 1.8 million years ago. Some of their tools are even put on display at the caves’ entrance.
In addition to its amazing feats, the Sudwala caves host in one of its beautiful caverns, fossils of collenia, the first oxygen-producing plants on Earth. Unlike what the scenery suggests, being inside this cave is not claustrophobic as the central chamber of the cavern complex is said to be at a temperature of 17°C so you might need to put on thick clothes.
The cave tour is an hour long and is open every day from 8.30 am to 4 pm. If you are stuck in the area and need to find a place to spend the night, Pierre’s Mountain Inn is right next door to the caves.
The tour costs R100 for adults (over 16); R80 for pensioners (over 60); R55 for children ( 5 to 15); and free for children that are 4 years and under.
Source: southafrica
2. Cango Caves
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The Cango caves located near the town of Oudtshoorn, in the Western Cape Province of South Africa, is said to be one of the country’s finest, most popular, and best-known caves for tourist attractions. This is partly so because it is the first cave site in South Africa to get formal protection and this was issued in 1820 by the governor of the Cape, Lord Charles Somerset, who passed legislation to prevent visitors from removing or damaging the natural elements; stalagmites, and stalactites, that can be found here.
With a 4.5 star rating, its excavation dates back to 1930 and it is said to be rich in limestone.
Opening time is usually between 9 am to 4 pm and the ‘Standard Tour’ usually spans around an hour while the ‘Adventure Tour’ spans about an hour and a half.
Source: Wikipedia and S.A Specialist
3. Wonder Caves
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From its name you can tell that this scenic place is indeed a sight to behold. With a 4.4 star rating, aging far back as around 2.2 million years old, the cave boasts about 14 stalactites and stalagmite formations with most of them still growing. The Wonder caves are located at 520 Kromdraai Road Rhino & Lion Nature Reserve, Kromdraai, Krugersdorp 1739 South Africa.
The caves are open to tourists from 8 am to 5 pm from Mondays to Fridays but run from 8 am to 7 pm on Saturdays and Sundays, with a time duration of 2h 30mins.
The price range for a trip to the Wonder Caves by an adult in Naira is around N32,129.30 and there are, in addition to this tourist site, a number of other attractive scenic places and restaurants that will blow your mind with their amazing customer service.
Source: inspirock; tripadvisor
4. Devil’s Pool
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With a 4.7-star rating and a catchy name to entice anyone with a sense of adventure or thrill, Devil’s Pool is located in Mosi-Oa-Tunya Road.
Victoria Falls, Livingstone 20100 Zambia, is a geological formation that is a must-see, must-experience for every human.
This exhilarating activity happens when you swim to the edge of the cascade of the Victoria Falls and plunge into the devil’s pool. It is advisable to only take on this ride from Mid-August to Mid-January when the water levels have dropped to a safe swimming level and should only be conducted under the supervision of a tour guide.
The recommended duration to tour this geological formation is 1h 30 mins and the price ranges around $150-$159.
Source: inspirock
5. Danakil Depression
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Danakil depression is a journey that any tourist would love to visit as it presents such amazing experiences that it makes the duration and cost totally worth it. With a 4.9 star rating and situated on 0125 of the Afar region in Ethiopia, this scenic site represents the meeting place of three tectonic plates and is home to some of the world’s strangest landscapes.
Boasting hot springs, feasting spots for extremophile microbes, creating otherworldly shapes and colors with sulfurous mounds of yellow-rimmed mini-craters and mirages of camel caravans crawling across a chain of dried salt lakes, the Danakil depression is an area that is known as one of the world’s most inhospitable land, and, as such, has become a target of research by Scientists on how life may arise on other planets.
During the course of this expedition, you get to see the place where fossils of 3.5-million-year-old Lucy Australopithecus were found in 1974. Amazing right?!😱 From as low as $540 for 3 days to as high as $3,877 for 13 days. Visiting hours span from 6 am to 12 am on Mondays to Saturdays, with a recommended duration of four hours daily for those that want to take their time to ingest, digest, and appreciate the experience of touring this geological formation.
There are more amazing scenes to visit in Africa, and if you are into the current trend, you will know that Africa is the hotspot for tourism right now. Don’t miss out. Get your own experiences and be sure to give us your feedback after checking them out.
- All the star ratings done in this article are based on inspirock star rating reviews.
- For more info concerning tourism or trip planning, you can check out the sites aforementioned.
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