South Africa is one of the most geographically various countries at the African continent, comprising territory that degrees from the rolling, fertile plains of the highveld and the huge-open savannah of Mpumalanga to the Kalahari desolate tract and the peaks of the Drakensberg Mountains. In addition to possessing two of the arena's maximum renowned flora and fauna reserves, the Kruger and the Kgalagadi Trans frontier Park, the country contains over a dozen smaller nearby parks and reserves.