Countries you can visit without a visa

Travelling is an experience of a lifetime but can be a pain when it comes to visas.

Arton Capital, a residency and citizenship solutions provider, released its 2017 Passport Index which includes 199 passports worldwide.

The index is a system that ranks passports by the number of countries it can gain access to without needing to apply for a visa.

For South Africans in 2017 there 57 countries that can be visited without needing a visa and 31 countries where a visa is only needed on entry.

These countries include:

• Antigua and Barbuda

• Fiji

• Lesotho

• Singapore

• Argentina

• Gabon

• Macao

• South Korea

• Bahamas

• Georgia

• Malawi

• St. Vincent and the Grenadines

• Barbados

• Grenada Malaysia

• Swaziland

• Belize

• Guatemala

• Mozambique

• Tanzania

• Benin

• Guyana

• Namibia

• Thailand

• Botswana

• Haiti

• Nicaragua

• Trinidad and Tobago

• Brazil

• Honduras

• Palestinian

• Territories

• Tunisia

• Chile

• Hong Kong

• Panama

• Uruguay

• Colombia

• Indonesia

• Paraguay

• Vanuatu

• Costa Rica

• Ireland

• Peru

• Venezuela

• Dominica

• Israel

• Philippines

• Zambia

• Dominican Republic

• Jamaica

• Saint Kitts and Nevis

• Zimbabwe

• Ecuador

• Kenya

• Saint Lucia

• El Salvador

• Kosovo

Visa on entry:

• Armenia

• Guinea-Bissau

• Mauritania

• Seychelles

• Bolivia

• Iran

• Mauritius

• Tajikistan

• Burundi

• Jordan

• Micronesia

• Timor-Leste

• Cambodia

• Kyrgyzstan

• Nepal

• Togo

• Cape Verde

• Laos

• Oman

• Turkey

• Comoros

• Madagascar

• Palau

• Tuvalu

• Djibouti

• Maldives

• Rwanda

• Uganda

• Ethiopia

• Marshall Islands

• Samoa

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