My favorite vacation was when my family and I travelled to South Africa. It was really nice to be in a different environment,in a different place in the world. I loved the safari we went on. It was great. I saw all different types of animals. It was also great because we got up close to the animals... especially the African Elephant and the Giraffe. At one point during the Safari, the dominant male elephant mock charghed us! We just had to keep reversing back in our van to make sure we weren't in his way.It was so great that we visited so many different places in South Africa. We went to Johannesburg, Pilanesburg National Park, Cape Town and Pretoria. One of my favorite things we did in Cape Town was to go sandboarding. Only my dad and my brother and I went, my mum and sister went shopping. The sand was so hot and the sand dunes were big and steep. Some were even as big as three and four story houses! The sandboards were twice the size of a skateboard. When we got to the top of the dunes, and we had waxed our boards, and we sped down, it was all worth it. South Africa is definitely my favorite vacation so far!