South Africa

Opened in November 2001 as part of the Gold Reef City complex in Johannesburg, the Apartheid Museum documents the history of apartheid and the 20th-century struggle for democracy through original artefacts, film footage, and interactive exhibits.

A sheltered cove on the Cape Peninsula enclosed by 540-million-year-old granite boulders, Boulders Beach hosts one of the world's few urban African penguin colonies, which grew from two breeding pairs in 1982 to approximately 3,000 birds today.

A dramatic promontory at the southeast corner of the Cape Peninsula, Cape Point marks one of the most scenically spectacular stretches of coastline in Africa, where the Atlantic and Indian Oceans are said to meet and where the famous Cape of Good Hope is located within a short distance.

At 19,623 km², Kruger is one of Africa's largest and most celebrated wildlife reserves, stretching 360 km from north to south along South Africa's border with Mozambique and Zimbabwe.

A flat, 5.08 km² island in Table Bay, Robben Island held a maximum-security prison from the late 17th century until 1996 and is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site and living museum where former political prisoners serve as guides.

A flat-topped mountain rising 1,086 m above Cape Town, Table Mountain is the northern anchor of the Cape Peninsula and part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site for its extraordinary fynbos biodiversity.