budget to travel south africa

Have a valid passport, vaccinated if it is passed by Brazil and have bought return tickets are only some of the requirements asked South Africa if you want to travel to see the grand event. And given that this target is not considered a tourist area, it becomes necessary assistance to purchase insurance for peace of mind in case of any inconvenience.

To begin with, can not travel to South Africa without a scheduled date of return, since within the entry requirements is that you must have returned since the passage assures them that "the intention" of returning home .

Within the calling to enter the count is at least a passport with at least two blank pages for stamps and visas. Additionally, you must have a minimum period of six months at the time of embarking. If you need to get a new passport the Civil Register is reporting the value of the same 32 pages, has a value of $ 48,900 and 64 leaves, $ 60,720. Was delayed six days in delivery.

Chile

Chile Nominate:

Goalkeepers: Claudio Bravo, (Miguel Pinto), (Luis Marín).

Defenses: Waldo Ponce, Mauricio Isla, Arturo Vidal, Gary Medel, Gonzalo Jara, (Ismael Fuentes), (Pablo Contreras).

Midfielders: Carlos Carmona, Jorge Valdivia, Matías Fernández, Rodrigo Millar, Jean Beausejour, (Rodrigo Tello), (Marco Estrada).

Forwards: Alexis Sánchez, Humberto Suazo, Mark González, Esteban Paredes, (Gonzalo Fierro).

Coach: Marcelo Bielsa.
Technical body: Eduardo Berizzo, Luis Bonini.

Stadium Peter Mokaba

Is located in Polokwane, and also it has been constructed entirely on the occasion of the World Cup of Football of 2010.

It is a question of one of five new stadiums constructed for the Championship of the World of 2010, and Peter Mokaba is in the Sports Complex. It is placed approximately to 5 km from the downtown, and his capacity for the championship belongs 41.733 spectators. It will shelter 4 meetings of the phase of groups.

The sports complex takes the name of the deceased Peter Mokaba, a famous political activist of the juvenile section of the National African Congress during the apartheid. It had born and lived in Polokwane, and it was very recognized by his fighting spirit and leadership against the racism.

Nelson Mandela BAY

The Nelson Send Bay, of 42.486 seats, it is placed in Nelson's Bay Send Her, in Port Elizabeth's city, and it was constructed for the World Cup of Football.

The stadium, of five levels, and an approximate cost of 1,1 millions of rands (about 150 million $), placed in Nelson's Bay Send Her, named in honor of the president of the country and Nobel Prize on the Peace Nelson Send Her, North End was constructed with a view to the lake, in the downtown. It is one of five new stadiums constructed for the dispute of the World Cup of Football of 2010.

It is a question of the first soccer stadium of world class built in the Oriental province of the End. The stadium possesses 150 suites VIP, 60 business suites, a shop of sports clothes, gymnasium and 500 parking lots, besides assembly halls. According to the official programming, he should have been concluded in December, 2008. His act of inauguration took place, finally, on June 7, 2009. There will be disputed in this stadium 5 meetings of the first phase, 1 of eighth of end, 1 of quarters and the party for 3 º position.

Loftus Versfeld

The Stadium Loftus Versfeld is a sports enclosure placed in Pretoria, South Africa. It has a capacity for 51.762 spectators and all the localities are of seat. The stadium takes the name of Robert Owen Loftus Versfeld, the founder of the sports organized in Pretoria.

As the years went by the stadium has been submitted to diverse renaming due to his different sponsors, though the places always have referred to the field as Loftus Versfeld. Between June 11, 1998 and February 4, 2003, the stadium was named officially Minolta Loftus, to open way from February 5, 2003 for the Securicor Loftus
On September 1, 2005, the process of the renaming concluded when Vodacom turned into the sponsor and restored Loftus Versfeld's original name.

Soccer City

The Soccer City called by advertising motives FNB Stadium (First National Bank), is a soccer stadium located in Johannesburgo, South Africa, which will be a headquarters of parties of the World Cup of Football of 2010, between which the inaugural party and the final will be.

It was constructed in 1987, and he was having 78.000 spectators. There was partially demolished for the world one of 2010, and his capacity extended to 94.700 seated spectators, which turns it into the biggest stadium of Africa. The majority of the big soccer events of South Africa develop in the FNB, since one adapts better to these events that the nearby Ellis Park, where there was disputed the final of the World Cup of Rugby of 1995. Soweto and the National Center of Exhibitions in Nasrec are in his proximities.

Once remodelled, it returned to be a headquarters of international parties of the selection of football of South Africa, disputing the first one of them against Colombia, on May 27, 2010.

Stadiums

Mbombela:

The Stadium Mbombela (Mbombela Stadium) is a soccer stadium in Nelspruit (South Africa), constructed on the occasion of the dispute of the World Cup of Football of 2010. One finds 6 km to the west of Nelspruit, being the angular stone of a project of sports enclosure with facilities of cricket and athletics, as well as other sports disciplines. The construction began in February, 2007 with date of completion for October, 2009. His name means, literally, " many united persons in a small place.

2010 FIFA World Cup

Is the 19th cup, the premier international association football tournament, being held in South Africa from 11 June to 11 July. It is the first time the finals of the tournament have been staged in an African host nation. South Africa were selected as hosts in May 2004 over Morocco and Egypt, following a bidding process open only to African nations.

The World Cup finals tournament in South Africa sees 736 players representing 32 qualifying teams compete in games held in ten stadiums across the country for the World Cup Trophy. The 32 qualifying teams were selected from a pool of entrants comprising 204 of the 208 FIFA national teams, selected for the finals in a qualification process that began in August 2007. With 204 initial entrants, it equals the 2008 Summer Olympics as the sports event with the most competing nations.

Controversial aspects of the tournament have included the use of the Vuvuzela horn and the Adidas Jabulani ball. The Vuvuzela, favoured by South African football fans who see it as a unique part of their football culture, has been criticised by many other travelling fans who were otherwise not accustomed to it's loudness or unhappy at its effect on traditional singing or match commentary. The specially designed Jabulani ball has been criticised by a number of players for being unpredicatable, but defended by FIFA and Addidas as the most technically advanced World Cup ball yet, who attributed criticism to lack of practice or altitude of some venues.

List of qualified teams

The following 32 teams qualified for the final tournament.

AFC (4)

* Australia
* Japan
* Korea DPR
* Korea Republic

CAF (6)

* Algeria
* Cameroon
* Côte d'Ivoire
* Ghana
* Nigeria
* South Africa (hosts)



CONCACAF (3)

* Honduras
* Mexico
* United States

CONMEBOL (5)

* Argentina
* Brazil
* Chile
* Paraguay
* Uruguay

OFC (1)

* New Zealand



UEFA (13)

* Denmark
* England
* France
* Germany
* Greece
* Italy
* Netherlands
* Portugal
* Serbia
* Slovakia
* Slovenia
* Spain
* Switzerland

Group A
uruguay
mexico
south africa
france

Group B
Argentina
Korea Republic
Greece
Nigeria

Group C
USA
England
Slovenia
Algeria

Group D
Germany
Ghana
Australia
Serbia

Group E
Netherlands
Japan
Denmark
Cameroon

Group F
Paraguay
Slovakia
New Zealand
Italy

Group G
Brazil
Portugal
Côte d'Ivoire
Korea DPR

Group H
CHILE
Spain
Switzerland
Honduras

First World Cup

Due to the success of the Olympic football tournaments, FIFA, with President Jules Rimet the driving force, again started looking at staging its own international tournament outside of the Olympics. On 28 May 1928, the FIFA Congress in Amsterdam decided to stage a world championship organised by FIFA. With Uruguay now two-time official football world champions (as 1924 was the start of FIFA's professional era) and to celebrate their centenary of independence in 1930, FIFA named Uruguay as the host country of the inaugural World Cup tournament.
In total thirteen nations took part: seven from South America, four from Europe and two from North America.

The first goal in World Cup history was scored by Lucien Laurent of France. In the final, Uruguay defeated Argentina 4–2 in front of a crowd of 93,000 people in Montevideo, and in doing so became the first nation to win the World Cup.

FIFA World Cup Winners

During the 18 tournaments that have been held, seven national teams have won the title. Brazil have won the World Cup a record five times, and they are the only team to have played in every tournament. Italy, the current champions, have won four titles, and Germany are next with three titles. The other former champions are Uruguay, winners of the inaugural tournament, and Argentina, with two titles each, and England and France, with one title each.Brazil: 5 World Cup's

FIFA World Cup

Is an international association football competition contested by the men's national teams of the members of Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The championship has been awarded every four years since the first tournament in 1930, except in 1942 and 1946 when it was not contested because of the Second World War.

The current format of the tournament involves 32 teams competing for the title at venues within the host nation(s) over a period of about a month – this phase is often called the World Cup Finals. A qualification phase, which currently takes place over the preceding three years, is used to determine which teams qualify for the tournament together with the host nation(s).

Pilanesberg's National Park

To 140 km to the north of Johannesburgo, in Bophuthatswana, Pilanesberg's National Park offers a grand environment, between the sheet of the Kalahari and that of the Transvaal, and an impressive fauna: antelopes saber, kudús, bubales, tsesebes and certainly the Five Big ones. Pilanesberg's National Park is the fifth biggest and undoubtedly one of the most beautiful of South Africa.

Mountains Waterberg

Located in the zone west of the province of Limpopo, the Mountains Waterberg, they are located at only two hours and a half of Johannesburgo.

The area is considered to be A Reservation of the Biosphere by the UNESCO, pro his great variety of animals, exotic flora and great quantity of natural reservations and of hunt deprived.

The Reservation of Waterberg's Biosphere extende in 15 thousand square kilometres and it shelters animal, vegetable species and archaeological deposits.

They have found in this zone archaeological remains that date back to the Age of Stone of it does million years that are in relation with the origin and the evolution of the modern man.

In Waterberg there can be practised activities like excursions, walks astride and night safaris.

Route Of Garden

Surrounded by Mossel Bay's cities in the western part and Tsitsikamma and Storms River in the eastern part, is one of the most beautiful zones of the country.

In the traditional Route Garden places can be visited as:

Mossel Bay, George, Botelierskop Game Farm, Wilderness, Victoria Bay, Way of the Old Steps (Old Passes Road), the Natural Reservation Goukamma, the forest and Knysna's lake, the National Park Tsitsikamma and several lagoons more.
In all his tour can be observed the highest mountains, cliffs, waterfalls, creeks, lakes, beaches and lagoons I half-close Wildersness and Knysna.

These marvels of the nature it is possible to find them in the mountainous cords of Tsitsikamma and Outniqua.

The National Park Kruger

Is the biggest estate of hunt for South Africa. It has more or less the same size and forms of Wales and a surface similar to the province of Caceres. It covers 18.989 km ² and spreads over 350 km from north on south and 60 km from this one on west.

In the eastern part and to the south of the National Park Kruger there are two South African provinces: Mpumalanga and Limpopo. In the northern part Zimbabwe is and in the eastern part one finds Mozambique.

Now it is part of the Cross-border Park of the Great Limpompo, a park of the peace that links to the National Park Kruger with the National Park Gonarezhou in Zimbabwe and to the National Park Limpompo in Mozambique.

The cannons of the park Kruger have been named Reservation of the Biosphere by the UNESCO.

5 Places That You Have To Visit

The Park of the Wetland of iSimangaliso or of Saint Lucia:

One places on the east coast of the province of KwaZulu-natal, in South Africa, approximately 275 km to the north of Durban
It is the third area protected from South Africa in extension; it occupies 280 km from coast, from the border with Mozambique in the north up to Mapelane to the south of the estuary of the Santa Lucía, with a width in the terrestrial zone of between 1 and 24 kilometres; the marine zone occupies a width of 5 kilometres along 155 kilometres of coast.

The park covers a surface of approximately 3.280 km2 of natural ecosystems administered by Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife.

Traditional Food

The most popular traditional food of South Africa is 'mieliepap', a maize and meal porridge. It is enjoyed by all the races of Africa, either black or white. It can be served in the breakfast or in the main course of the meal. In the breakfast, mieliepap is served with butter and cheese toppings.

A favorite traditional dish of South Africa is the 'braai' (meaning barbecue or roast). The traditional way of preparing meat is by grilling over open fire or stewing on hot coals with the help of a three-legged cooking pot called potjie (made up of cast iron). Meat cooked by this method, often accompanied by cooked vegetables, can be obtained in the restaurants of South Africa. Chakalaka is a favorite dish of the foreign tourists, which is a vegetable stir-fry served with the roasted meat.

Religion

According to the 2001 national census, Christians accounted for 79.7% of the population. This includes Zion Christian (11.1%), Pentecostal (Charismatic) (8.2%), Roman Catholic (7.1%), Methodist (6.8%), Dutch Reformed (6.7%), Anglican (3.8%); members of other Christian churches accounted for another 36% of the population. Muslims accounted for 1.5% of the population, Hindus about 1.3%, and Judaism 0.2%. 15.1% had no religious affiliation, 2.3% were other and 1.4% were unspecified.

African Indigenous Churches were the largest of the Christian groups. It was believed that many of these persons who claimed no affiliation with any organised religion adhered to traditional indigenous religions. Many peoples have syncretic religious practices combining Christian and indigenous influences.

Languages

South Africa recognizes eleven languages as official languages, though the principal two are of European origin: the Englishman used as vehicle of communication between all the South Africans and the afrikáans derived from the Dutch, is used by the bóer and also by the coloured. Other official languages are ndebele, sesotho (sotho southern), sotho north, tswana (these three languages of the group shoto), swazi, tsonga, it bandages, xhosa and zulú.

Flora And Fauna

South Africa possesses more than 20.000 different plants, which they represent near 10 % of all the species known about the world, by what it is considered to be a particularly rich area in vegetable biodiversity.

The bioma prevalente in the country is the meadow, specially in the Highveld, where the predominant flora they are the pastures, the low shrubs and the acacias, principally those of white thorn and camel. The vegetation is scantier towards the northwest, due to the low rainfalls of rain.

WWF distinguishes four ecorregiones from meadow of mountain inside the country:
-Meadow of the High place Veld, in the Highveld
-Mountainous meadow of the Drakensberg, in the Drakensberg, below 2.500 meters
-Meadow altimontana of the Drakensberg, in the Drakensberg, over 2.500 meters
-Maputaland-Pondoland's bushes, in the valleys of the southern spurs of the Drakensberg

The Floral Kingdom of the End has been identified as one of the most sensitive points of the South African biodiversity, since it will be seriously affected by the climate change and possesses an enormous diversity of life. The droughts, the increase of the intensity and the frequency of the fires and the increase of the temperature will lead to the extinction of many of these exotic species. The book Scorched: South Africa's changing climate uses great part of the model realized by the SANBI and presents a summary of tests of style story of trips.

South Africa shelters many animal endemic species, as the riverside rabbit (Bunolagus monticularis) that one finds in critical danger of extinction in the Karoo.

Geography

With a surface of 1.219.080 km ², the Republic of South Africa spreads in the south end of the African continent. El País newspaper borders on Namibia to the Northwest; in the northern part with Botswana and in the eastern part with Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Suazilandia. El País newspaper is surrounded by the oceans The Atlantic Ocean and Indian. Lesotho, independent country but with important bows with South Africa, is completely surrounded with South African territory.

Due to the extension of the country, the climate is very variable depending on the climatic zones. In the south and the high zones, the climate is moderated, whereas in the northwest the climate is subtropical and in the western part of the country it is semiarid. The annual average of rainfalls is 464 mm.
The principal rivers are the river Orange, which ends in the Atlantic Ocean; the river Vaal, his principal tributary, and the Limpopo, which ends in the Indian ocean, is born near Johannesburgo and then it marks in the north the border with Botswana and Zimbabwe.

The most southern point of the country, and therefore of the African continent, is the end Agulhas.

Cape Town

Is the second city most filled with South Africa after Johannesburgo. It forms a part of the metropolitan municipality of Cape Town. It is the capital of the Western Province of the End, as well as the legislative capital of South Africa, where there are located both the National Parliament and many other governmental headquarters. Cape Town is famous for his port, as well as for his natural conjunction of flora, the Mountain of the Table and Top of the End. Often considered as one of the most beautiful cities of the world for his geography, Cape Town is the most popular tourist destination of the country.

Originally it developed as station of supply for the Dutch ships that were travelling to Eastern Africa, India and Asia, more than two hundred years before the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869. The arrival of the Dutch navigator Jan van Riebeeck on April 6, 1652 meant the establishment of the first European accession in the sub-Saharan Africa. Rapidly it overcame his original intention as the first position of advanced in the Castle of Good Hope. It was the biggest city of South Africa up to the growth of Johannesburgo and Durban.

Bloemfontein

Bloemfontein: (in afrikáans and Dutchman Bloem's source (flower) or source of flowers) is one of three capitals of South Africa, together with Pretoria and Cape Town. Bloemfontein is the judicial capital of South Africa, as well as also the capital of the Province of the Free State. The name sesotho of the city is Mangaung, which the place means ' where the guepardos dwell '.

Bloemfontein is popular and poetically known as " the city of the roses ", due to the abundance of these flowers and to that the annual festival of the roses is carried out there.

Pretoria

Pretoria : is a city placed in the north part of Gauteng's province, in South Africa, inside the Metropolitan Municipality of Tshwane's City. It is the administrative capital of South Africa, close to the cardinal cities legislative of Cape Town and the Bloemfontein's judicial one. Here there are located the headquarters of the Executive Power.

Location

The Republic of South Africa is a country located in the southern end of Africa. It borders on the countries of Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Suazilandia. The Kingdom of Lesotho is nailed inside the Republic of South Africa. His capitals are (administrative) Pretoria, (judicial) Bloemfontein and (legislative) Cape Town.

South Africa

The Republic of South Africa is a country located at the southern tip of Africa, with a 2,798 kilometres (1,739 mi) coastline on the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. To the north lie Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe; to the east are Mozambique and Swaziland; while Lesotho is an independent country wholly surrounded by South African territory.