Anybody of thinking on holiday in South-Africa ?

Question

I have just returned from SA. We went down to the Transkei and had such a good time. The locals there are so friendly and very helpful. We went to Silaka reserve, if you are interested in birds, beautiful beaches, fishing and just generally have a good time go there. We ate at the Ghecko Moon, quite expensive but delicious food. There pizza's are the best and it is the only decent restaurant in that area. It was brilliant, just thought i would tell you that it was as safe as anything there and am still alive. Go and enjoy , just make sure you have enough pounds things are quite expensive in SA at the moment and when they find out you are from UK they double charge. But Silaka was cheap. :)))

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im going home on a holiday soon and i cant wait.my mom tells me the beach front where she lives has undergone a face lift as a new hotel and lots of restaurants have been built.hope things have not become too expensive.

Answer 2

Fly. And e book your flight fee ticket now. uk to Johannesburg flights are over £one thousand today, and could in person-friendly words get more advantageous extreme priced. After the draw is made on Friday you'll war to get a flight in any respect. Flying to a neighbouring united states is honestly no longer any benefit, as fairly a lot all flights to southern Africa flow via Johannesburg besides, and travelling overland from Nairobi, even as accessible, isn't ordinary or speedy. people will nonetheless flow to South Africa to video demonstrate suits in bars, they continuously do, yet no longer in everywhere close to the numbers they could in Europe.

Answer 3

CHARLDEAN HUMAN. Tell this little 7 year old how safe it is.
By ignoring the crime you insult the memory of this and other children.
I was watching the news on Friday and they were saying that she was the 2000th child killed in South Africa in the last year.
The figure was 70 in UK with a larger population and you will only hear our disgust in that. ( and this is just children. 32000 gun deaths a year)
You tell us how safe it is then you send us petitions to send back to Thabo. What is with you and why are you all here in UK and why does every house in South Africa have bars on the windows and doors like our prisons.
You behave like accompices encouraging people into a trap.
A friend of mine went last month and traveled from Cape Town airport to Rondebosch, a half hour drive and was hijacked in broard daylight having a gun put in her belly and told to leave the car with her kids.She was lucky. (not more than 1.5 hrs after landing)
I know from the questioners name that she in South African but what is she doing here,sounds just like a whenwe to me.

Vango: Stop punishing yourself GO HOME.
The truth is hundreds do go and not killed but don't say it is as safe as elswhere because the figures show that you are a liar. The beaches are nice especially in the Cape but they are in France as well especially in the Vendee,Atlantic coast.
It is getting more expensive every day and has all but caught up with UK except maybe restaurants and that is only because they put down the value of their currency all the time, to make it seem cheap..
When I left I paid R1.70 for a £1 and R0.82c for a US$1.
Calculate your prices using those rates an their prices are 7 times more than here.

Answer 4

I used to live there...now live in Australia with my hubby. SA is a wonderful place to visit. I took my husband around SA in 2003 ..from the Kruger Park to JHB, down the Garden Route to Cape Town, back to Durban and then onto the Darkensburg. It was wonderful. My Husband loved it. He was so impressed with the service and the accomodation and thefriendly people. Living in Australia's great, but I miss the diversity of SA.

Answer 5

I thought SA is very dangerous.
Too expensive to go.
Which is the better option, SA or Australia?

Answer 6

No thanks, I left because of crime and bad politics, and hundreds of other families of all races leave on a daily basis as well.

To have any idea of how how dangerous and frustrating it is lo live in South Africa you need to speak to people outside of the tourism industry or people not in denial about the social environment in South Africa.

It´s one thing going there on hoilday but another living there.

Please note that not all tourists are fortunate to have an incident free holiday in South. There have been scores of tourists and tourist groups mugged and stabbed on table mountain this season.
South Africa along with Colombia and Iraq is one of the most violent crime ravaged countries in the world.
http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_2068354,00.html

You can google "tourists" "attacks" "crime" etc.

Many foreign embassies have already issued travel warnings for South Africa.

I suggest that peoples willingness to portray South Africa as a safe environment succeeds only in perpetuating the crime issue in South Africa and undoes a lot of hard work by those who are trying to get the government to respond in some way to the current stuation.

Answer 7

I'd go to SA anyday (since I come from there). Hmmm, I found the stuff to be normal price. ANyways, tourist spots are quite expensive! Hope you had fun!

Answer 8

personally i think every answer was ridiculous.im in south america at the mo and if i was asked the quest as i am all the time id say do it.frog the crime u wont be hit.if u r its because ur a moronic traveller.

Answer 9

Its nice to hear that somebody actually visited South Africa without becoming a victime of crime. Did you pick up your T-shirt when you were leaving? The one with " I survived South Africa 2007." on the front?

Answer 10

We trully appreciate that you visited and enjoyed our beautiful country. Wish you the best for future!