Summary
Includes a directory of American and South African tour companies.
Tips on how to preplan a South African visit to decrease costs are given. Visitors can now take tours of villages and places of historical importance to the anti-apartheid struggle. Reactions of whites and Africans to African Americans are discussed. Tips on safety and security are also given.See the full content of this document
Extract
Travel advisory for the new South Africa.
SOUTH AFRICA'S MOTTO, "A WORLD IN ONE COUNTRY," IS Particularly apt. Its landscape, often breathtaking, abounds in variety--from rugged mountains to severe plains, from sprawling metropolises filled with diamond-shaped skyscrapers to dilapidated shantytowns, from rolling flowered hills to vast protected game reserves, with lions, tigers, cheetahs and elephants.
Its culture is even more of a mix. It is black and white, Zulu and Afrikaaner, Islamic and Dutch Reformist, rich and poor. It's a first world country with "all the amenities and infrastructure that we are accustomed to in the United States," notes Selma Edwards, CEO and president of the New York-based E-Z Tours. But that's hardly the whole story. "Within that environment, you have b...See the full content of this document
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