South Africa's romantic register runs between safari luxury and coastal drama in ways that few other countries can match. The private game reserve format — a tented suite with a plunge pool overlooking a waterhole, a sundowner in the bush with a ranger who knows every animal by name, and a candlelit dinner under a baobab — is the romantic experience that the country does better than anywhere. A whale watching weekend at Hermanus in July, when southern right whale mothers and calves are in the Walker Bay nursery and visible from the clifftop path, is a natural spectacle of quiet grandeur. The Cape winelands offer the weekend Franschhoek dinner-and-cellar format. A proposal at the tip of Cape Point, where the two oceans meet in Atlantic surge and the lighthouse is visible above, is a setting of the right scale. Take it all in.