Worldwide Experience are the specialists in conservation placements in South Africa, working closely with several leading Game Reserves and National Parks. Explore South Africa and leave with a lifetime of memories, and many new friends. With Worldwide Experience you don't just visit this amazing country you actually become part of it, by helping in the development of its future.

South Africa is the heartbeat of the African continent and home to the world's most spectacular wildlife, including the Big Five - lion, leopard, elephant, rhino and buffalo - which makes South Africa a truly wild experience! From vast open plains and rocky escarpments teeming with wild animals that roam free, to sweeping beaches and colourful cities, South Africa is a must-see country with so much to offer even to the most experienced traveller.

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About South Africa
Discover why South Africa is the adventure capital of the world, why its natural beauty and wildlife will leave you awe-struck, why its friendly people, rich culture and freedom struggle will warm your heart!

South Africa is well endowed with a wide variety of experiences to explore. From watching the big five in one of the world's biggest national parks to enjoying a relaxing time at our blue flag beaches to surfing at some of the world's best super tubes. You can watch whales doing acrobatics at the world's whale watching capital or come up close and personal with the great whites or simply take part in any of the endless adrenalin pumping adventure sports that we offer in the air, sea or on land.

The Land
One finds the world's strangest and most dramatic landscapes, a unique wealth of animal and plant life, a treasure of gold, diamonds and other minerals, and a kaleidoscope of fascinating culture in South Africa.
Nature's tools of creation, the wind, sun, ice and rain, have worked a special magic. There are extremes of deserts, savannas, snow-covered mountains, grasslands, high forests and tropical mangrove swamps. Within these climatic zones, Earth's most diverse plant populations flourish. South Africa is also the home of big game and hosts birds found in a vast range of habitats and containing a multitude of foods that nature has prepared for them.

It is the variety of South Africa's fascinating and diverse population that is its greatest asset. South Africa is often called the cradle of civilisation, for this is where archaeologists discovered 2,5 million-year-old fossils of our earliest ancestors, as well as 100 000-year-old remains of modern man.

Although South Africans come from many cultural traditions, they belong to one nation; a dynamic blend of age-old customs and modern ways, building a new South African society to create a better life for all.
Its surface area is 1 219 090 km2. It has common boundaries with the Republics of Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe, while the Republic of Mozambique and the Kingdom of Swaziland lie to the north-east. Completely enclosed by South African territory in the south-east is the mountain kingdom of Lesotho.