South Africa

Hey bloggers! I'll start my post showing you a fantastic country located in the southern hemisphere. I think you will know it from the football World Cup won by Spain in 2010! The country is really amazing. You can see big advanced cities such as Johannesburg or Cape Town, and then have a rest and enjoy the nature and wild animals that are impossible to see in our country. You can go on very exciting safaris for around twelve hours in the sabanah and see the Big Five (lion, elephant, rhino, leopard and hippo) in their natural habitat, as a result, you can see their way of life.

 Firstly, I'll speak about the origin of the country, its development. The Portuguese were to discover it when they were travelling to America, they found the Cape of Good Hope, located at the southern most part of Africa. The Dutch went there to plant lettuce and tomato, they were white people invading a place inhabited by negroes. They had more authority than them and for that reason, more money as well.

In South Africa there is a great difference between rich people and poor people. Rich people are very rich and poor people are very poor. On the one hand, you can see the big houses of the rich and on the other hand, the suburbs were poor live, of which mainly all of them are negroes. At the beginning there was a lot of discrimination from white to black people, nevertheless, Nelson Mandela has contributed to the disappearence of it and nowadays the fight against racial discrimination is being supported.

The big cities, Cape town and Johannesburg for instance are amazing, they have very beautiful sights, high buildings and have great financial influence and importance. People there in their free time go at night to pubs where most of them have concerts or a small group of people singing while others have dinner or just go there to have a good time.

Safaris are perfect to forget about big cities, noise and to escape from our normal life. They normally take place over a few days from dawn until dusk. You can enjoy them and you will like seeing animals that you have loved since you were young in their own habitat, with their family or individuals of their species.

To sum up, South Africa is a marvellous place where you can find everything that you want, big cities with great influence and importance, and relaxation in a different area surronded by nature, by amazing animals that you have always dreamed to see. It is fantastic, isn't it?