Friday, June 11, 2010

South Africa - FIFA world cup 2010


SOUTH AFRICA
South Africa the world famous country from the African Continent. South Africa is well known for its Tourism as well organising Sports events on International level. It is well known for its organisation of sports as it has organised IPL2 (Indian Premier League 2) in 2009. Now it is organising FIFA world cup 2010. Both the events are on a very large scale and continues to be almost a month or more.

SA tourism depends on the type like"
  1. Adventure and Sports
  2. Wildlife Safari
  3. Culture and Heritage
  4. Entertainment and Leisure

Major cities of South Africa are
  • Johannesburg
  • Cape Town
  • Durban
  • Pretoria
  • Port Elizabeth
South African Safari is the Safari which the tourists never miss out.
There are several package tours from India and other countries to South Africa. The packages differ according to the place and days for the tour.

Currency in South Africa is "RAND" and the code is ZAR

1 USD = 7.71 ZAR
1 Euro = 9.35 ZAR
1 Pound(GBP) = 11.3 ZAR

(The rate shown above is for information purpose only, please check the rates as it fluctuates every day)

With the Football World Cup 2010, South Africa is goin to have maximum number of tourist in any country this year. In Football Worldcup there are 32 teams participating. It is a whole month eventstarting from 11 June 2010 and ending on 11 July 2010.