South Africa Heritage Sites Gallery

Landscape photo of the farming area just outside the town of Magaliesburg, Gauteng Province, South Africa

Magaliesburg is a popular weekend getaway for the city dwellers of Johannesburg, Pretoria and Rustenburg. This area, known as Golden Valley, is very remote and chosen by many city folk seeking a country lifestyle. The scenic town of Magaliesburg lies some 25 kilometers from this location and the Magaliesberg mountain range can be seen in the distance. The town is part of what is termed the Magalies Meander and is a popular tourist destination in South Africa. The well known UNESCO World Heritage Site called The Cradle of Humankind is situated just outside the town of Magaliesburg. One of the oldest gold mines in South Africa, the Blaauwbank Historic Gold Mine is still operating to this day

© Mitchell Krog

San Pass, uKhahlamba Drakensberg Park, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa

The uKhahlamba Drakensberg Park is in the KwaZulu Natal province of South Africa, covering 242, 813 ha of area. The park includes Royal Natal National Park, a provincial park, and covers part of the Drakensberg, the highest mountain range in Southern Africa. The park and the adjoining Sehlabathebe National Park in the Kingdom of Lesotho are part of the Maloti Drakensberg Park, which was first declared a World Heritage Site on 30 November 2000. It is described by UNESCO as having exceptional natural beauty in its soaring basaltic buttresses, incisive dramatic cutbacks, and golden sandstone ramparts.. the sites diversity of habitats protects a high level of endemic and globally threatened species, especially birds and plants also contains many caves and rock shelters with the largest and most concentrated group of paintings in Africa south of the Sahara

© Roger de la Harpe / DanitaDelimont.com

View of South African Trees and Scrubs in the Misty Foggy Morning at Kruger National Park, South Africa

Kruger National Park is one of the largest game reserves in Africa. It covers an area of 19, 485 square kilometres in the provinces of Limpopo and Mpumalanga in northeastern South Africa, and extends 360 kilometres from north to south and 65 kilometres from east to west. Areas of the park were first protected by the government of the South African Republic in 1898, and it became South Africa's first national park in 1926

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