She can also go to St Lucia-Cape Vidal. Can do a lot of bird watching and also snorkel and scuba dive.

And there is the beautiful Drakensberg area in KZN as well with plenty of accommodation - various price ranges as well.

Thank you so much everyone who has replied so far, I am sure she will greatly appreciate all the info! :D :D Travel guides can only tell you so much.

Christy wineries are a must see :mrgreen:

Plus I will keep the info for the day I go to SA :mrgreen:

There is a 'must see, must visit' place on the west coast of South Africa, no more than 3.5 hours drive from Capetown.

It is the 'Beach Camp' at Paternoster - they offer very cheap tented accomodation (with comfortable beds, showers etc) , great walks, birding, swimming, kayaking, fishing etc... and the bar/food prices are unbelievebly affordable - or you can bring your own food and use their BBQ facilities.

I was there for a weekend in August 2006, with the Cape Leopard Trust, and I was so happy with the camp, the staff, the birding walks and the facilities that I can't wait to go back one day!

There is a lot to see in SA. 4 weeks are not enough.

My suggestion is a trip along the coast from Cape Town to Kwazulu Natal, then through Swaziland to Kruger National Park and the Lowveld.
There are many places that are worth visiting on or near the coast. I would choose Tsitsikamma National Park (beautiful scenery!), Addo Elephant National Park and maybe Knysna.
When she gets further north east, she should consider getting away from the Coast to visit the Drakensberg Mountains near Lesotho. Then back to the coast and on to Durban and some of the parks north of Durban like Hluhluwe Imfolozi and the St. Lucia Wetlands. (see this map of KZN)
From there the shortest way to Kruger is through Swaziland. Enter Kruger at one of the Southern Gates (Crocodile Bridge or Malelane) and travel North through Kruger.
Other great places to visit in this area are the private reserves in Greater Kruger, for example Nkorho and Elephant Plains. After leaving the Kruger area and going west she could visit the "Panorama Route" with its beautiful waterfalls, viewpoints and the Blyde River Canyon.
From there it's only a few hundred km to Johannesburg.

This schedule should keep her busy for at least 4 weeks. She would miss out on the beautiful North West of the country with parks like Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park and Augrabies. But that's a bit more remote and more difficult to travel in, so it could be the destination for another trip. :wink:

I hope that helps.

After writing all this, I want to go too... :D

Here are some links to websites about the places I mentioned above:

• Robben Island
• Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens
• Table Mountain National Park (includes Table Mountain, Boulders Beach and The Cape of Good Hope)
• Hermanus
• West Coast National Park

.... and after visiting all those places Katja mentioned......

there are the wineries

:wink:
http://www.wineroute.co.za/welcome.asp

Thanks Katja :D

Day trips from Stellenbosch

• Cape Town: I can recommend a visit to Robben Island (where Nelson Mandela was in prison for many years), Table Mountain and the Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens
• The Cape Peninsular: beautiful scenery; best parts in my opinion are Boulders Beach near Simon's Town where you can get close to a Penguin colony and the Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve. A walk to the nice viewpoints at Cape Point and Cape of Good Hope. It's possible to see some wildlife there. The baboons at the Cape Point car park are very naughty!
• Hermanus (on the coast south east of Stellenbosch): a great place to watch Southern Right Wales from the land. The whales are in the Bay for calfing from July to November.
• West Coast National Park: on the coast north of Cape Town. I have never been there but heard that it's very beautiful.