Eastern Cape Provincial Article - South African Vacations

Overview
Eastern Cape Tourism Board
Street address: c/o Longfellow & Aquarium Rd, Quigney, East London, 5211
Postal address: PO Box 18373, Quigney, East London, 5211
Tel: +27 (0) 43 701 9600
Fax: +27 (0) 43 701 9649
E-mail: info@ectourism.co.za
Website: www.ectourism.co.za
Snow-covered mountain peaks, sun-drenched beaches, lush forests,
stretched-out deserts – all this and much, much more, you will find in the
Eastern Cape – the province where sea and land, mountains and valleys,
deserts and forest all come together.
The Eastern Cape is a wonder world where all seven of South Africa’s
ecological vegetation types (biomes) are found. It is also the only place in the
world that has a wildlife reserve where the “Big Seven” – elephant, lion,
buffalo, rhino, leopard, southern right whale and great white shark, can be
seen.
It is South Africa’s second largest province (having approximately the same
size as that of Austria, Switzerland and Denmark combined) and its coast lies
ensconced between subtropical KwaZulu-Natal and the Western Cape with its
Mediterranean climate. The Great Escarpment divides the interior into the
southern region, with its many rivers and wetlands and the northern, more arid
regions. Its almost 1 000-km coastline stretches from the Tsitsikamma
National Park in the west, past St Francis Bay and Algoa Bay and up to Port
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