Stretch Your Rand: Budget-friendly Travel Destinations For 2025

Great news for South African travellers: your rand worked overtime in 2024! Flight Centres Year in Travel 2024 report reveals the destinations where exchange rates played nice, turning bucket-list trips into budget-friendly realities.

From sipping caipirinhas on a Brazilian beach to floating above Cappadocia in a hot-air balloon without breaking the bank, these destinations promise those pinch-me-I-must-be-dreaming experiences at unbeatable prices.

Where the rand ruled in 2025

1. Zimbabwe 79.5 YOY currency gain

Current exchange rate : R1 = 1.4191 Zimbabwe Gold ZiG