Eco Travel is a growing trend in South Africa and it enables the traveller to experience this incredible country authentically in its wildlife, wild fauna and flora. And wildlife, wild fauna and flora is what makes this country – and indeed continent – such a magical place.

For environment-conscious eco-visitors, South Africa has many establishments and services that have the lowest impact on the ecology and help with the promotion of wildlife, uplift rural communities and discourage environmental destruction.

Eco-travellers will find in South Africa plenty to see and do...

- Magnificent Game and Nature Reserves
- Wildlife Tours and Walking Trips
- Botany Tours and Walking Trips
- Trails for hiking, cycling and horse riding
- Mountain Trekking
- Birding Tours and Walking Trips

And stunning National Botanical Gardens such as:
- Free State National Botanical Garden in Bloemfontein, Free State
- Harold Porter National Botanical Garden in Bettys Bay, Overberg
- Karoo Desert National Botanical Garden in Worcester, Western Cape
- Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden in Cape Town
- KwaZulu-Natal National Botanical Garden in Pietermaritzburg
- Lowveld National Botanical Garden in Nelspruit, Lowveld
- Pretoria National Botanical Garden in Tshwane, Gauteng
- Walter Sisulu National Botanical Garden in Roodepoort, Gauteng

As a top global birding destination, South Africa offers great bird viewing with a staggering 850 bird-species on sighted-records. Cape Town is famous for its endemics, such as orange-breasted sunbirds, the Cape sugarbirds, the Hottentot buttonquails, the protea seedeaters, the Cape siskins and known for its great viewings of waders - as is the case with the Langebaan Lagoon in the West Coast National Park.

Near Boulders Beach National Park in the Cape of Good Hope National Park you will find a thriving African penguin colony. Wakkerstroom is an area known for Botha's larks, African rock pipits and blue and white-bellied korhaans, cranes and Rudd's and more. But best of all must be the Zululand Birding Route, especially the north-eastern area with its forests and woodlands, freshwater lagoons, marshes and tidal estuaries, tropical climate and incredible wealth of bird species.

South African Blue Flag Beaches - with excellent environmental standards:


KwaZulu-Natal:
North Beach in Durban
Addington Beach n Durban
Hibberdene Beach on the South Coast
Margate Main Beach on the South Coast
Ramsgate Main Beach on the South Coast
Marina/San Lameer Beach on the South Coast

Eastern Cape:

Kelly's Beach in Port Alfred
Kings Beach in Port Elizabeth
Dolphin Beach in Jeffrey's Bay
Humewood Beach in Port Elizabeth
Wells Estate, north of Port Elizabeth

Western Cape
Grotto Beach in Hermanus
Lappiesbaai Beach in Stilbaai
Bikini Beach in Gordon's Bay
Hawston Beach near Hermanus
Mnandi Beach in Strandfontein
Clifton 4th Beach in Cape Town
Kleinmond Beach near Hermanus

South Africa is a country for which the term “Environment Friendly” fits very well and amazes one with un-suppressible beauty and nature everywhere.