South Africa, larger than Holland, Belgium, Italy, France and western Germany combined, and a country of immense resources, is a regional superpower, the engine room of the subcontinent's economy. It is also rich in beauty, stunning in its myriad contrasts, though in the broadest terms it has just two physical divisions: the vast interior plateau, and the narrow coastal belt that fringes it. Between them is the conspicuous and continuous necklace of mountains known as the Great Escarpment, which reaches its grandest heights in the uKhahlamba-Drakensberg range to the east. South Africa, part of the Beautiful Series, takes you on a memorable visual journey through one of the southern hemisphere's most diverse and scenically enchanting regions.