Beautiful Wild Places in the Southern Cape of South Africa.

 

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There are some beautiful wild places in the southern cape around where I live. Magnificent waterfalls just begging to be seen that most people don’t even know exist. Just in the Gamtoos valley there are small towns servicing the deciduous fruit farms and wonderful hiking trails taking one to waterfalls hidden away in narrow ravines.

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We have 7 biomes just around my city of Port Elizabeth alone! So there is a different type of vegetation for every ones tastes. Montane forests, succulents, karroo desert vegetation, seashore vegetation and grassland.

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Storm’s River is home to montane forests and magnificent mountains clothed with thick forest. Trails wind up and down the mountain sides through this lush vegetation that often never sees the light of the sun.

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the vegetation that the Addo elephants eat is a succulent of the karroo biome This bush retains it’s moisture in it’s leaves even in dry periods and has nutritional vales for them.

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