How To Get To Southern Africa From All The Major Continents
South Africa's main airline is SAA and it has regular flights to and from North America, Europe and Asia. It also covers other countries in Africa making it easy for foreigners to get access to these countries.Other major airlines from Europe, Australia and America frequently have flights to South Africa. British Airways, Lufthansa and KLM are of the most frequent European Airlines. Emirates Airline has regular flights from the East.The Emirates flight from Johannesburg via Dubai to London is sometimes a cheaper option than any of the direct airlines. Even though Australia is literally next to South Africa many times the Johannesburg, Dubai connections to Australia are the cheapest.If there are no direct flights from your own country to the African country you are visiting, then you will need to get a connecting flight from OR Tambo aiport in Johannesburg.There are many internal flights available in Africa via the national airlines of the various countries.South Africa has a number of airlines of which quite a few lost cost airlines that fly between Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg. Mango, 1Time and Kulula have great deals if you book at the right time.Their air crafts are most probably the ugliest on the tarmac but they get the job done and you won't ever get onto the wrong plane. Mango is very distinctly orange, the entire plane is orange. 1Time looks like a dirty red spot and Kulula a bright dark green overgrown bug.The very adventurous might attempt driving from Europe through Africa. A ferry crossing from Spain will take you into Morocco. This is however not advisable for everybody. These kinds of trips require extreme planning.Road networks in Africa are from average to bad to non-existent in certain places. Hospitals and medical services are few and far apart and not all African countries are safe to drive in if you are not an expert on schemes and bribery.The Italian cruise liner, the MSC Melody, do some trips between Durban on the East Coast of Africa and Genoa in Italy. After the recent attack on this liner by pirates from Somalia this service might now be in jeopardy.Quite a number of boat cruises are available between Durban and some of the Islands in the Indian Ocean. The MSC Sinfonia has regular cruises to Portuguese and Mozambique Island, of the coast of Mozambique, and occasionally to Mauritius.For most people, a trip to Africa will begin in South Africa and from there you will head to the places that interest you most on this massive continent.
