Car Rental South Africa

The Republic of South Africa is located, as the name says it at the southern tip of the African continent and is there surrounded by the Indian Ocean and to the West from the Atlantic Ocean in the East. Currently live here almost 47 million people on something more than 1.2 million square kilometres. About 60 percent of South Africans live in in cities, including 750,000 in the capital Pretoria, recently also Tshwane is called and' we are all the same' means.

In hardly any country of the world, there are so many plant and animal species such as in South Africa. With 20,000 different plants, including 9000 in the fynbos region in the Western Cape Province, which accounts for about 10 percent of all known species worldwide. Numerous copies of the'Big five', where lions, leopards, Buffalo, elephant and rhino include, can be observed in the wild in one of the many national parks, such as, for example, the Kruger National Park,. Even 170,000 African penguins, which are live on the coasts and the front storage Islands.

South Africa is also considered the cradle of humankind, as the oldest human fossil found here, old one dated to 3.5 million years. Sites were particularly Taung and the caves of Sterkfontein and kromdraai, Gauteng. An excursion to the fascinating places you can do best with a rental car. But also the cities of Johannesburg and Cape Town or the beaches in the region around Durban are absolutely worthwhile.

in 1994 the majority black population could rid finally of centuries of long oppression and apartheid and Nelson Mandela was the first Black President of South Africa.

In 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa held football. At the latest, soccer fans from around the world will reside primarily in the following venues:

Bloemfontein (free State Stadium) Durban (King's Park Stadium) Johannesburg (soccer City Stadium and Ellis Park Stadium) Cape Town (green point Stadium) Nelspruit (Mbombela Stadium) Polokwane (Peter Mokaba Stadium) Port Elizabeth (Nelson-Mandela Bay Stadium) Pretoria (Loftus Versfeld Stadium) Rustenburg (Royal-Bafokeng-Stadion)