Port Elizabeth: Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium.

Known nationally as the friendly city, tourists can expect exceptional service from PE.

- Exploit rugged, unspoilt beaches along the sunshine coast and Kragga Kamma Game Park.

- Take in 47 places of historical interest on the Donkin Heritage Walking Trail to truly get to know the city.

- Ride the Apple Express, a narrow-gauge (two feet) tourist train which departs regularly for Thornhill Village via the Van Staden's River bridge, the highest narrow-gauge rail bridge in the world.

- Travel up the Marine Drive which leads to blue flag beaches and the chance to view dolphins, whales and cormorants diving for fish.

- Be entertained at the oldest theatre in Africa, The Port Elizabeth Opera House.

- Hit the boardwalk for scrumptious seafood and other restaurants.

- Slide down Alexandria Dune Fields, the largest coastal dune field in the southern hemisphere.

- View the big seven at Addo National Park. That’s the big five plus the southern right whale and great white shark.

- If you fancy a drive. then make your way to Jeffrey’s Bay for world-class surf or the village of Qunu where Nelson Mandela was born and visit the Nelson Mandela Museum.

- Tour the Garden Route on your way to Cape Town and stop at Bloukrans Bridge for the highest bungy jump in the world.