Why South Africa Is The Place You’ll Be Visiting In 2016

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To celebrate our mates over at Qantas turning 95 – congrats guys! – we decided to count down our top 95 destinations of the future. We pooled the expert brains trust here at AWOL to come up with a jam-packed list of destinations to help you update your bucket-list – from Greenland to Mudgee, NSW, we’re excited about the future of travel and we reckon you should be too.

So who topped our list of destinations you’ll be travelling to in the future? South Africa! This small but mighty country is the gateway to the rest of Africa, but it’s also stands alone as a great destination – think beautiful countryside with a Medditerranean-like climate and a budding cultural scene to boot. Cape Town, for instance, has a great arts scene, some of the world’s best wineries and some the most picturesque coasts on the continent. This underrated gem should be skyrocketing its way up your bucket-list in no time.

Seeing as it’s coming to the end of the year, and all that holiday cheer is guaranteed to make you start thinking about where to go in the new year, why not take a gander at our lists below for some inspiration? As a little sneak peak, here’s what we crowned our top 20 destinations of the future – a batch of must-see places that everyone will be talking about in no time. Get your pens ready, you’re going to want to remember these.

#1 South Africa
#2 Oakland, California
#3 Fremantle, WA
#4 Myanmar, Asia
#5 Cuba, North America
#6 Canberra, ACT
#7 Antarctica
#8 Samoa, Polynesia
#9 Hobart, TAS
#10 Bosnia & Herzegovina, Europe
#11 Quito, Ecuador
#12 Bay Of Islands, New Zealand
#13 Jordan, The Middle East
#14 Henn Na Hotel, Japan
#15 Kauai, Hawaii
#16 Hubei Province, China
#17 Gabon, Africa
#18 Palawan, Philippines
#19 Downtown Los Angeles, USA
#20 Karijini National Park, WA