How many South African provinces have you been to?

How many South African provinces have you been to?

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    Votes: 2 0.9%

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    Votes: 9 3.9%

  • 4

    Votes: 16 6.9%

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    Votes: 15 6.4%

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    Votes: 13 5.6%

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    Votes: 24 10.3%

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    Votes: 125 53.6%
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Funny enough not many. I usually go out of the country for holidays. However as a child i think we went to a few. Don't remember tho. The only province outside if GP for me these days is Western Cape when i'm in Cape Town. Speaking of which i need to get down there again, Brash Burgers are calling my name...
 
3WA said:
Here’s my favourite things in each province:

Northern Cape: Kgalagadi will give you some of the best big cat sightings you can get anywhere on the planet. Just chill at your camp looking at the waterhole and everything comes to drink (you should also drink). No bushes in the way, clear line of sight. Camping in the coastal part of Namaqua National Park. Rafting the Orange River.

Mpumalanga: southern Kruger. Barberton, which has great natural history tourism

Limpopo: northern Kruger. Hitting up Venda guys for mangoes. All those game farms in the Bushveld, some great campsites that feel very remote.

KZN: battleground tourism between Volkrust and Vryheid. Sodwana Bay is the only decent place to look at corals in South Africa. St Lucia has great beaches, but not the best. The drive from the Midlands to Sani Pass is plain awesome.

Gauteng: cultural leader of South Africa. Only province where people don't routinely fsck livestock.

Eastern Cape: best beaches, hands down. If you know a little history and geography, then tourism along the old frontier is really cool.

Northwest: spelunking. Not an easy or quick thing to get into, but it opens up a pretty cool new world.

Western Cape: rock-climbing and hiking Cederberg. Driving Seweweekspoort - it's the best drive in South Africa for scenery.
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3WA said:
Here’s my favourite things in each province:

Northern Cape: Kgalagadi will give you some of the best big cat sightings you can get anywhere on the planet. Just chill at your camp looking at the waterhole and everything comes to drink (you should also drink). No bushes in the way, clear line of sight. Camping in the coastal part of Namaqua National Park. Rafting the Orange River.

Mpumalanga: southern Kruger. Barberton, which has great natural history tourism

Limpopo: northern Kruger. Hitting up Venda guys for mangoes. All those game farms in the Bushveld, some great campsites that feel very remote.

KZN: battleground tourism between Volkrust and Vryheid. Sodwana Bay is the only decent place to look at corals in South Africa. St Lucia has great beaches, but not the best. The drive from the Midlands to Sani Pass is plain awesome.

Gauteng: cultural leader of South Africa. Only province where people don't routinely fsck livestock.

Eastern Cape: best beaches, hands down. If you know a little history and geography, then tourism along the old frontier is really cool.

Northwest: spelunking. Not an easy or quick thing to get into, but it opens up a pretty cool new world.

Western Cape: rock-climbing and hiking Cederberg. Driving Seweweekspoort - it's the best drive in South Africa for scenery.
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The water around Vryheid is also one of the best tasting water I had... It's very good
 
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8 of them.

**** that Limpopo province.
 
neoprema said:
Funny enough not many. I usually go out of the country for holidays. However as a child i think we went to a few. Don't remember tho. The only province outside if GP for me these days is Western Cape when i'm in Cape Town. Speaking of which i need to get down there again, Brash Burgers are calling my name...
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You'll need your 13th booster shot
 
Calkem said:
The water around Vryheid is also one of the best tasting water I had... It's very good
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I don’t remember it. But now that you mention it, Northern Cape water is disgusting. You can feel the kidney stone growing with every sip.
 
3WA said:
I don’t remember it. But now that you mention it, Northern Cape water is disgusting. You can feel the kidney stone growing with every sip.
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Although not technically in Northern Cape, but in the Karoo the worst water I've ever tasted was in Beaufort West. I wouldn't even call it water I spat it out.
 
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Eastern Cape - PE and Port Alfred
Northern Cape - Springbok during flower season
Western Cape
Free State - Bloemfontein
Gauteng - Pretoria and Johannesburg
 
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Worst roads I've come across in the country. Went to visit a friend in Kuruman and there was a 50km stretch where I had to drive on the gravel on the side of the road because the road itself was mostly potholes. And there were a few of those stretches. After using the first spare tyre, had to call AA and get towed to the nearest town because I got another flat...
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Thankfully the N7 is still pretty good.
 
KZN: I lived my first 30 years there. Traveled extensively all the way to Newcastle and Kokstad in the south. Slept in caves in the Drakensberg

Gauteng: it's where I live. Special trips to Dinokeng. Magaliesburg.

Eastern Cape: 10 days in Grahamstown 6 SAI. Memorable for all the wrong reasons.

Limpopo: Louis Trichardt and Musina. National service in signals. 3 months in the bush outside Musina. Northern Kruger twice.

FS: Clarens, Bloemfontein, and a road trip straight down the middle.

Western Cape: Cape Town (business and pleasure). Robertson. Langebaan.

Northern Cape: only Colesburg, sadly. I want to see more.

North West: Rustenburg, Klerksdorp, Pilanesburg, Potchefstoom. Leeupoort on a couple of occasions.

Mpumalanga: Nelspruit, Malelane, Komatipoort. Southern Kruger many times.

This is a great country to live in and travel.
 
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I've been to more countries than provinces. Why would i willingly spend money to travel from one part of a shït hole to another.
 
Affieplaas said:
Western Cape - Born and bred here and have lived in the WC for all my 50 years on this planet. I have called both the Southern Cape and Cape Town home and know the province like the back of my hand. Best place on earth if you ask me. SA don't need the other provinces - If they make me president, I would give them all to Zimbabwe.

Eastern Cape - Spent many holidays in PE, travelled for work to East London, Grahamstown, King Williams Town etc. My honeymoon was in the Tsitsikamma forest. I'll add the area from Stormsrivier to East London into the Western Cape before handing over to Zim.
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I think that Stormsriver should say Bloukrans, otherwise you'll have disconnected territory.

Either way, I'm glad that my old stomping ground gets to be in your independent republic.

Interestingly, Zimbabwe had the option to join South Africa.
 
All nine. I made a conscious decision to see more of SA a few years ago.

The province I've seen least of is Limpopo. Have only been to Warmbaths in recently. As I child we did go to Phalaborwa a few times. The weather is just to hot for me.
 
My family's like the African Diaspora, they're all over the place. So I've been every province.
 
All of them
Freestate: Was born there and stayed there for 20 years many family still there.
Gauteng: Live here now
Northwest: Many holidays and weekend camping, technically just 30 min from my house. Oh and many visits to Sun City
Limpopo: Many holidays and camping Warmbaths and surrounds have great resorts. Less than 2 hours from my house.
Mpumalanga: Well drive there to the Kruger once a year. Don;t know if Kruger park in in Mpumalanga or Limpopo. Also many great camping resorts in the Middelburg area that I have visited. Also about 2 hours drive.
KZN: Many sea holidays from when I was a kid. From Port Edward to Ballito
Nothern cape: Not too much time, a few nights sleepovers when going to western cape. Few days camping at Orania
Western cape: many holidays. As a WP supporter even flew down for a few games just for the weekend. I love snoek and will look for a reason to go there.
Eastern cape: Well I want to say the least time spend here as I only had day drives when holidaying in Knysna area. But Then I see they say Wild Coast sun is in Eastern cape. In that case, I have spend countless holidays there.
 
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