Eastern Cape

The Eastern Cape is one of South Africa's most varied regions, where rolling grasslands meet rugged Wild Coast cliffs and deep valleys hide thick forest. Inland reserves protect elephants, lions, and cheetahs, but it's the ocean that steals the show each winter during the Sardine Run. Billions of sardines move north along the coast, pursued by dolphins, whales, sharks, and seabirds in one of the most dramatic wildlife spectacles on Earth.