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GOLFING ALGARVE
Africa’s closest countries to Europe, Morocco and Tunisia are popular for short breaks and longer holidays thanks to guaranteed sun coupled with experiences that make for memorable stays.
Morocco’s heady mix of exotic sights, sounds, smells and tastes intoxicate the senses. Wander the colourful, cacophonous souks of ancient medinas in its imperial cities – Marrakech, Fez, Meknes and Rabat. Immerse yourself in age-old traditions such as its evocative Gnawa music, timeless Berber mountain villages and the snake charmers, acrobats and street food stalls of the Jemaa el Fna square in Marrakech. Relax in five-star spa hotels alongside wide beaches, live like locals in historic city-centre riads and even stay in forest-swathed mountains where winter brings snow.
Tunisia’s good value, year-round sun and cultural and cuisine flavours have made it a firm favourite, particularly for holidays in all-inclusive hotels. Beautiful beaches, water sports, spas, desert adventures and history dating back to Roman times all add to its appeal.
GOLFING FUERTEVENTURA
Africa’s closest countries to Europe, Morocco and Tunisia are popular for short breaks and longer holidays thanks to guaranteed sun coupled with experiences that make for memorable stays.
Morocco’s heady mix of exotic sights, sounds, smells and tastes intoxicate the senses. Wander the colourful, cacophonous souks of ancient medinas in its imperial cities – Marrakech, Fez, Meknes and Rabat. Immerse yourself in age-old traditions such as its evocative Gnawa music, timeless Berber mountain villages and the snake charmers, acrobats and street food stalls of the Jemaa el Fna square in Marrakech. Relax in five-star spa hotels alongside wide beaches, live like locals in historic city-centre riads and even stay in forest-swathed mountains where winter brings snow.
Tunisia’s good value, year-round sun and cultural and cuisine flavours have made it a firm favourite, particularly for holidays in all-inclusive hotels. Beautiful beaches, water sports, spas, desert adventures and history dating back to Roman times all add to its appeal.
SOUTH AFRICA & NAMIBIA
Rainbow nation South Africa spans the whole spectrum of holiday offerings. Head to cosmopolitan Cape Town and take the cable car to the top of Table Mountain. Use the city as a base to visit the continent’s most southerly location, Cape Point, as well as visiting Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela spent 18
years in prison, the penguin colony at Boulders Beach and the Winelands’ many wine estates where you can enjoy tastings and picnic lunches.
Go whale watching in Hermanus before driving the stunning 200km (125-mile) coastal Garden Route. Explore pulsating Durban and its expansive beaches, discovering Zulu culture and Boer War battlefields in the heartland of KwaZulu-Natal. The country offers many game reserves include Kruger national Park. For gaming of a different sort, have a flutter on the tables of casino resort Sun City.
Among Namibia’s key attractions are its thriving cheetah population and other wildlife, German colonial-era heritage buildings and the desolate Skeleton Coast, graveyard of many ships.
ZAMBIA, ZIMBABWE & BOTSWANA
These wildlife wonderlands offer a host of safari lodges, camps and a variety of viewing opportunities from game drives, walking safaris, and floating safaris to hot-air balloon trips. Take a boat trip on the Zambezi River in Zambia, Zimbabwe’s Lake Kariba and the Okovango Delta in Botswana for close-up views of animals from the water.
The mighty Victoria Falls was named by explorer David Livingstone but is known by locals as Mosi-oa-Tunya, “the smoke that thunders”, for the billowing clouds of spray when it is in full flood. It can be viewed from Zambia and Zimbabwe, which both border it.
One of Africa’s most significant archaeological sites is Great Zimbabwe, a ruined walled city that flourished for four centuries until the 1500s in what is now Zimbabwe.
