20 most beautiful natural places in South Africa 1  …. 1. The wildness of Coffee Bay. 2  2. Red sandstone of the Cederberg. 3  3. Misty mountains of the Magoebaskloof.  4. Bourke’s Luck potholes of the Blyde River 1  Canyon. 5. The wetlands of the Elephant Coast.  6. The Sabie waterfalls route of 1  Mpumalanga. 7. Valley of Desolation, Camdeboo National  Park.