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 For adventure enthusiasts, South Africa’s vast outdoors offers expanses of wilderness and rugged regions for hiking and walking. Mountains call the intrepid to climb, abseil, hang-glide, parachute, or snowboard down them.
Somewhere along the South African rivers is the perfect spot for white-water rafting, kayaking, canoeing or fly-fishing.
Watch turtles, dive with great whites, scuba dive to a wreck along South Africa’s notorious coastline, which is littered with them, or wrestle barracuda from a deep-sea ski boat.
Spot Southern Right whales as they mate and calve along South African coastline.
Glide across valleys at sunrise in a hot-air balloon; track down a buck; wind your way0 through indigenous forests to rare lily, or bike down a rugged slope.
For the more exuberant, there is parasailing over bikini-clad beaches, white water rafting down rivers or leaping from the Bloukrans Bridge (216m) one of the highest
bungi-jumps in the world. The Gouritiz River Bridge is also popular for bridge jumping.
Hiking
 From north to south, east to west, hiking trails
criss-cross South Africa. They range from almost effortless to very strenuous, lasting from an hour or so to a week or more. Some are self-guided; others conducted. Some have basic overnight huts, caves or tents en route; others none at all. A few provide comfortable to luxurious accommodation. Some have been designed for physically disabled people.
Whale-watching
South Africa’s Cost of Whales stretches from Gansbaai in the south to St. Helena
 Bay on the West Cost,
with Hermanus in the center. Courting, mating and calving  whales frequent the waters between June and November every year. The species most commonly seen is the Southern Right Whale, but Humpback and Bryde’s whales have also been sighted in the area.
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