SOUTH AFRICA VOTED FOURTH-BEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD FOR TRAVELLERS
The most beautiful country on the Planet, home to the most incredible people on Earth, our lovely Mzansi, is doing us proud again.
This time, for being voted by Conde Nast in their Readers' Travel Awards for being the Fourth Best Country in the World for 2016.
Greece, which continues to capture the imagination with crowd-pleasing scores across the voting board, takes the crown jewels this year.
Italy comes in second place while the United States beats South Africa with just one spot to claim third prize.
However, South Africa has many more awards up her sleeve, with 15 top spots across various categories.
The awards, for example, also revealed that Mzansi's Mother City was the second-best city in the world, beaten only by the ancient city of Rome in Italy. Cape Town dusted out the likes of New York, Venice and Barcelona to claim the second spot.
Earlier this year, Lonely Planet named Cape Town as the second-best city in the world too. Lonely Planet praised the Mother City saying, “Cape Town’s deceptively laid-back folk have been working hard to add cultural and culinary cred to the Mother City’s famous natural charms, cementing its reputation an as African city with a global outlook”.
Apart from South Africa's incredible cities, the country’s resorts, hotels and entire hospitality industry aren't lagging behind either.
South Africa claimed a spot in the overall Top Resorts list with Richard Branson's Ulusaba resort named the Top Safari Camp.
Three of South Africa's lesser-known restaurants, spots in Cape Town, the Garden Route's Knysna and KwaZulu-Natal's Umlazi, also made Conde Nast Traveler's global foodie guide earlier this year.
– Source: traveller24.news24.com