{"id":90415,"date":"2012-09-15T16:44:33","date_gmt":"2012-09-15T14:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/inspiratie-reis\/the-unknown-north-of-south-africa\/"},"modified":"2021-10-26T09:24:26","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T07:24:26","slug":"the-unknown-north-of-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"inspiratie_reizen","link":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/destinations\/africa\/tours\/the-unknown-north-of-south-africa","title":{"rendered":"The unknown north of South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Pilanesberg and Tzaneen<\/h2>\n<p>On this rental car tour, you&#8217;ll visit the far north of South Africa, which houses a number of beautiful, barely visited parks. It&#8217;s a journey full of special encounters with big and small game! You&#8217;ll see the volcanic remains at <strong>Pilanesberg,<\/strong>one of South Africa&#8217;s strangest geological sites. And <strong>Mapungubwe<\/strong>, an area with a beautiful varied nature. <strong>Tzaneen<\/strong> is a lively and fertile centre where tobacco, coffee, tea, fruit and vegetables are grown. There is a beautiful subtropical plant growth, waterfalls and rapids. A &#8216;must&#8217; is the Magoebas Gorge with one of the steepest mountain passes in South Africa. Finally, look for the Big 5 in the world famous <strong>Kruger Park.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4>Tips &amp; Tops Tour The unknown north of South Africa:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Visit the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg<\/li>\n<li>Take a township tour in Soweto<\/li>\n<li>Visit Elim and Tzaneen in the fertile Letaba valley<\/li>\n<li>In Pilanesberg National Park, ten thousand animals live in dense forests, valleys and rolling grasslands, including zebras, elk, rhinos, elephants, buffaloes, giraffes, hartebeest and leopards<\/li>\n<li>On the way to Elim, you&#8217;ll pass Ben Lavin Nature Reserve, well worth a visit if you like hiking or mountain biking. There are 45 kilometres of walking and cycling paths here<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Panorama route<\/strong> is characterised by a variety of landscapes, spectacular vistas and impressive natural wonders such as the Pinnacle Falls that you reach from Graskop<\/li>\n<li>Extend this trip with a visit to the Drakensbergen<\/li>\n<li>Fly to Maun and extend this trip with a visit to the Okavango Delta in Botswana<\/li>\n<li>Extend this trip with a visit to the iSimangaliso Wetland Park or fly to the Victoria Falls<\/li>\n<li>Fly to Maputo and end this trip to one of Mozambique&#8217;s paradisiacal beaches<\/li>\n<li>Take a look at our recommended accommodations: <a href=\"\/?continent_category=singita-lebombo-lodge\">Singita Lebombo<\/a> &#8211; Kruger of <a href=\"\/?continent_category=rhino-walking-safaris-at-plains-camp\">Rhino Plains Camp<\/a> &#8211; Kruger<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Round trip by hire car from Johannesburg and visit Pilanesberg, Mapungubwe and Tzaneen to end with safaris in kruger national park<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":111075,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"inspiration_categories":[],"country":[207],"continent_category":[186],"class_list":["post-90415","inspiratie_reizen","type-inspiratie_reizen","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","country-south-africa","continent_category-africa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/inspiratie_reizen\/90415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/inspiratie_reizen"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/inspiratie_reizen"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/inspiratie_reizen\/90415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238609,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/inspiratie_reizen\/90415\/revisions\/238609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"inspiration_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/inspiration_categories?post=90415"},{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=90415"},{"taxonomy":"continent_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/continent_category?post=90415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}