This coastal city 470 mi/760 km south of Johannesburg has the wonderful East London Museum, with excellent anthropological displays, the only known dodo egg and a stuffed coelacanth (a fish thought to have been extinct for more than 70 million years—until one was netted near East London in 1938). While in town, also see the Gately House museum. Lovely Victorian buildings in the city center, nice beaches (popular with surfers) and a zoo round out the city.
