very exciting, you will love it Mike. I loved South Africa when I went a few years back
I'm seriously considering Sri Lanka in January - still got 14 days of annual leave to use up before the end of February - it would be rude to not use it all!
I'd second Cape Town, I went in 2012 with Virgin. great city. Also add to that Abu Simbel in Egypt and the Masai mara in Kenya (Can you guess I'm an Africa fan?)