But South Carolina has much more than great beaches: It has America's oldest formal landscaped garden, America's first golf course(not to mention hundreds of wonderful new ones), 200 battlefields from the War of Independence and the site where America's Civil War both began and ended.
Away from the luxury resorts and tourist centres of the coastal region South Carolina is rural and simple, dotted with sparkling lakes and lazy streams, and driving through it gives in insight of how America was decades ago.