SOUTH AFRICA-EASTERN CAPE-EAST LONDON-GONUBIE
By: sasha, 11, South Africa (AKA guess)

Gonubie is a small town just off East London, its beach has natural white/yellow sand with beach plants, trees and awesome surf spots. Gonubie is one of the best surf spots besides J-Bay. We have a beach coffee shop and a surf shack and a lifeguard house. The bathrooms have just been revamped. Gonubie is a BLUE FLAG beach, a blue flag beach means that your beach is one of the best. Gonubie is the best beach for anything including surfing, boogie boarding, body boarding, windsurfing, picnics, swimming etc. Gonubie beach is a place where you can do just about anything, it is a relaxing environment. Of every beach in South Africa I would not change it for one of them.

I LIVE IN SOUTH AFRICA
By: Jessica, 10, South Africa (AKA Wisteria)

I am not from U.S.A. I’m from South Africa. I live in the city of Cape Town. My name is Jessica. The weather is really weird in Spring. First it is striking hot in the afternoon but toward the evening it starts getting cold. I do not know what it is like in U.S.A as I’ve never been there. We have a very big landmark, called "Table Mountain". We call South Africa a "Rainbow Nation" because we have people of many races born here. There are 11 national languages in South Africa, such as English, Afrikaans and Xhosa. There are lots of traditional food, such as mealies and Pap and Wors (Corn and cornmeal & sausages) and we also have lots of traditional stories. So if you are stuck on where to go for vacation, then come to South Africa. It may be a bit far but it’s totally worth it!!

SOUTH AFRICA
By: Jenny, 11, VA (AKA Sharpaymissy)

I One of the best places you should consider visiting in the world is South Africa. I only went there for two weeks, so I didn’t visit every single thing, so I suggest you go there for at least a month.

The first place you should visit is Johannesburg. The airport there is amazing and if you look out the plane window, you see all these little houses lined up together, all red and orange. Johannesburg is called "The City of Gold" because you can buy gold and you can visit Nelson Mandela Square which offers lots of shops: toy shops, clothes shops (DUH!) and food shops.

Then you should go to Pretoria which is the administrative capital of South Africa. It’s really cool there, because it has one of the second largest malls in South Africa and our hotel hostess said you could get lost there (sadly we didn’t) and they have millions of shops. If you’re a bookworm like me you should ask for Exclusive Book, it’s got the best books in the world.

We went to Cape Town for a week after that and I think that Cape Town is the best place in South Africa. You should go in your winter breaks, because South Africa’s weather is reversed from the US’s. Cape Town is really beautiful anyway, and it’s got this wonderful little mall near the V&A waterfront and you can see the bridge over the Atlantic Ocean go up if ships go by just like London!

Cape Town also has the biggest mall in the world which is called Century City, which is situated near a theme park called Rutunga Junctions. The mall looks really cool too, like a congress, and if you go inside it’s all colorful with a big golden M, for McDonalds. It’s got four hundred shops and you won’t get sick shopping there.

Sadly we never went to Robbin Island, which has got the prison in which former SA president Nelson Mandela and you can see it. You go there in a boat but it was raining when we went there so no such luck.

If you go to South Africa you HAVE to visit Kruger National Park! If you don’t your whole trip will be worthless, cause I enjoyed it sooooooooo much!