So, you came to Southern Africa with an adventure holiday in mind, but it seems as though all you've done is lie on the beach soaking up the sun or trawled shopping malls. You want to experience some adventure tours and activities, but you aren't sure how to go about organising it. Luckily there are innovative on-line adventure travel companies that are here to help you solve this problem.

Being in a new country is exciting, what with places to explore, things to discover and an endless array of things to do. But this can also be quite daunting. You may not speak the language, may struggle to follow a map and fear getting lost or you may just prefer having a guide who knows the area. If this is the case booking an adventure tour is your best bet. You may want to tour the Cape Peninsula in a side car or on a Harley Davidson, or you may wish to experience luxury travel on a steam train along the Garden Route. You may even just want a simple cruise around Table Bay, enjoying cocktails while watching the sun go down. By utilising the services of an on-line travel company your booking will be arranged for you.

You may also be curious about the adventure activities that this country offers. With two oceans, numerous mountain ranges, forests, valleys and gorges, desert and semi-deserts, Southern Africa offers a plethora of activities that will keep you occupied and ensure that you have fun. The activities that are offered range from easy and relaxing, to energetic and strenuous, heart-pumping and adrenalin inducing! You decide which of these interests you.

Some of the easy or relaxing activities that you may wish to partake in include gentle hikes through picturesque mountain forests, hot air balloon rides over the Cape Winelands or Oudshoorn, whale watching trips (July-September) or a boat ride to Seal Island, and boat cruises either during the day, at sunset or evening cruises which is usually for special events and includes a fantastic dinner, among others.

The more active options that are available include sandboarding, mountain biking, quad biking, horse riding; while water activities include scuba diving, kayaking, kiteboarding, surfing; and jet flights or helicopter rides. If it's heart-stopping adrenaline filled adventure activities that you are after then why not try shark cage diving or marine safaris; bungee jumping, skydiving or paragliding; Ferrari racing and rally car driving; or book a safari and come face to face with Africa's Big 5 - lion, leopard, rhino, buffalo and elephant.

Southern Africa offers a diverse range of adventure holidays in which you may wish to partake. South Africa comprises numerous ecosystems and geographical options that make excellent destinations for a number of adventure activities. Other exciting countries to visit for excellent adventure holidays include Botswana, Namibia, Mozambique, Madagascar, Rwanda/Uganda, Tanzania and Zanzibar. From deserts to savannah plains, mountains to seaside towns, and even tropical islands - these countries are perfect holiday destinations. Africa is infamous for its wild animals and a safari is the ultimate African adventure tour that cannot be missed. Central and Southern Africa is home to a variety of plant-, animal-, fish- and bird-life, much of which is indigenous to these specific areas and have to be specially cultivated in other parts of the world or are found only in aquariums and zoos. In fact, nearly 85% of Madagascar's flora and fauna is found nowhere else in the world!

When you come to Africa you may be nervous, you may be excited, you may even be exhausted, but one thing that you will not be should you book an adventure tour or activity through an on-line booking agency, is bored. So go on and start planning and booking your adventure holiday complete with adventure activities and tours today!