Adventures in Southern Africa

 

Southern Africa offers tourists many things to see. Game reserves offer a sight of Africa's rarest creatures. Deserts and breathtaking waterfalls are among the great landscapes that Southern Africa has to offer. If you are in search of city life, then visit Johannesburg or cosmopolitan Cape Town. The best time to visit southern Africa is during the cooler drier months , from May to October.  

 

 

 

 

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Words

  • abundance = a lot of ; very many
  • attraction = special things to see
  • border = line between two countries
  • brim = to have a lot of
  • budget = here: the money  that you can afford to spend
  • capture = here: take
  • catch sight of = see
  • compete = to try to be better than the others
  • cosmopolitan = with people from all parts of the world
  • creature = living objects
  • dawn = sunrise
  • delta = a low area where a river spreads into many smaller ones
  • dune = a hill formed by sand
  • dusk = sunset
  • elusive = mysterious, hard to see
  • encounter = see, meet
  • game reserve = a large area of land in which wild animals can live safely
  • height = how high something is
  • inland = in the continent, not on the coast
  • length = how long something is
  • odds = how possible something is
  • pamper = here: to give yourself something special and luxurious
  • plains = flat areas of land
  • pleasant = nice
  • rare = not very often
  • rumble = roar, thunder
  • savannah = grassland
  • slew = a large number of things
  • slope = side of the dunes
  • spotter = someone who spends time watching animals
  • stretch = to go from one place to another
  • surge = flow
  • terrain = landform
  • thicket = group of bushes and small trees
  • tough = hard
  • undulate = to move or to be shaped like waves that rise and fall
  • vanish = disappear
  • variety =  selection
  • wetland = area of land that is partly covered with water or is wet most of the time
  • wind down = here: to finish you trip