Eastern Cape

Eastern Cape Province is a diverse and mainly undeveloped area. Its landscape ranges from unspoiled forest to semi-desert, from sandstone cliffs to the green swath of coastline that begins in the Tsisikamma Coastal National Park and follows through to the sub-tropical Wild Coast. Heavy rainfall over the mountains can result in snow.

Inland, the rolling hills around Grahamstown and Port Elizabeth are known as Settler Country after the British migrants who settled the area in the early 19th C. Most of the Eastern Cape's population is Xhosa-speaking.

The national parks and reserves are home to a wealth of wildlife including the rare mountain zebra. The Eastern Cape also has some of the finest displays of prehistoric art in the form of rock paintings.