Places to visit in South Africa
96 places to visit in South Africa, each with LOQAH's carefully crafted stamp of its own: Cape Floral Region Protected Areas, Cape of Good Hope, Cederberg Wilderness and more. Stand at any of them with the app open and the stamp is yours, confirmed on site, in a volume for its state or province, filed under South Africa on your shelf.
96 travel stamps in 9 states and provinces
The best known in South Africa
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Cape Floral Region Protected Areas
A World Heritage group of reserves and parks along the Western Cape and Eastern Cape coast and ranges, protecting the fynbos vegetation. Despite its small area, the Cape Floral Region holds an extraordinary share of South Africa's plant species, many found nowhere else.
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Cape of Good Hope
The rocky south western tip of the Cape Peninsula, inside Table Mountain National Park and reached by a short walk from the car park. Cliffs, fynbos and wild beaches surround the sign that marks the point, and baboons and ostriches are often seen along the track.
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Cederberg Wilderness
A rugged range of orange sandstone peaks north of Cape Town, known for odd rock formations such as the Wolfberg Arch and Maltese Cross. It has hiking trails, ancient San rock paintings and the rare Clanwilliam cedar, which gives the range its name.
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Constitution Hill
A former prison complex in Braamfontein that once held Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela and many ordinary people, now home to the Constitutional Court. Visitors can tour the Old Fort, Number Four and the Women's Jail, and see exhibitions on human rights.
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Constitutional Court of South Africa
The highest court on constitutional matters, built within the Constitution Hill site in Hillbrow and opened in 2004. Its entrance is a row of slanted columns, and the building uses bricks from the old Number Four prison and holds a notable art collection.
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Cradle of Humankind
A World Heritage fossil area about 50 kilometres north west of Johannesburg, with dozens of limestone caves that have yielded hominin remains. Sterkfontein produced the skull known as Mrs Ples, and the Maropeng visitor centre explains the story of human origins.
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Khomani Cultural Landscape
A stretch of red Kalahari dunes in the far north of the Northern Cape, home to the Khomani San people. It was listed by UNESCO in 2017 for the way their culture, language and knowledge of the desert have continued through generations.
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Liliesleaf Farm
A farm in Rivonia where the African National Congress and its allies planned their struggle in secret in the early 1960s. Police raided it in July 1963 and arrested leaders including Walter Sisulu, leading to the Rivonia Trial. It is now a museum.
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Makhonjwa Mountains
A range of low mountains near Barberton in Mpumalanga, holding some of the oldest well preserved volcanic and sedimentary rocks on Earth, around 3.2 to 3.6 billion years old. Geologists come to read early life and crust formation here, and it became a World Heritage Site in 2018.
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Mapungubwe
A World Heritage landscape at the meeting of the Limpopo and Shashe rivers, where an Iron Age kingdom flourished between about 900 and 1300 AD. Its rulers lived on a sandstone hill and traded gold and ivory, and the golden rhinoceros found in graves there is its best known object.
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Mapungubwe National Park
A national park in Limpopo on the border with Botswana and Zimbabwe, forming part of the UNESCO Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape. It protects the remains of an Iron Age kingdom that traded gold and ivory, set in sandstone hills beside the Limpopo River.
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Pinnacle Point
A headland on the coast near Mossel Bay with a series of caves that show human use of shellfish and ochre about 160,000 years ago. A clifftop golf resort stands above, and guided walks take visitors to the archaeological caves.
South Africa by state and province
- Western Cape34 stamps
- Gauteng20 stamps
- KwaZulu-Natal13 stamps
- Northern Cape8 stamps
- Mpumalanga7 stamps
- Eastern Cape5 stamps
- Free State3 stamps
- Limpopo3 stamps
- North West3 stamps
Collecting in South Africa
Does LOQAH have stamps in South Africa?
Yes. 96 places in South Africa have LOQAH's carefully crafted stamp, among them Cape Floral Region Protected Areas, Cape of Good Hope, Cederberg Wilderness. More are added over time.
How do I collect a stamp in South Africa?
The same way as anywhere: open LOQAH at the place and get its stamp. LOQAH checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp is confirmed on site, with a gold badge and the date.
How are my South Africa stamps kept?
Each state or province you collect in gets a volume of its own, and the volumes sit together under South Africa on your shelf.
I have been to South Africa before. Can I add those trips?
Yes. In Earlier trips, choose South Africa and swipe through its stamps, or import your Google Timeline: it is read on your phone and only the places it matches are added.
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