Beautiful South Africa

16 days

CULTURE, HISTORY, WILDLIFE, SCENERY, FLOWERS PLUS GREAT FOOD AND WINE

Day 1-2

Depart from Denver for an overnight flight into Johannesburg, where you arrive in the afternoon. You will be transferred to your hotel.

Check in and relax after your long flight. Your hotel is situated adjacent to Nelson Mandela Square, so after freshening up, walk to the Square, where you can pick one of the many wonderful restaurants for dinner. The next morning you will be picked up by a personal guide who will take you to the Cradle of Humankind, where you will explore the anthropological origins of mankind. Afterwards, you will be taken to the Apartheid Museum and on to Soweto, the township where so much of the struggle against Apartheid boiled over, ending with the Hector Peterson Museum.

This morning you will be transferred to the airport, where you will catch a flight from Johannesburg to Hoedspruit, where you will be met and transferred to your lodge. For the next 4 days you will be pampered with great food, wonderful wildlife viewings super lodgings and all that great South African hospitality has to offer. Situated in the 62,000 hectare (+-130000 acres) Sabi Sands Reserve and part of the Greater Kruger Transfrontier Park (+- 4.5 million acres), you will be able to view the Big 5 (lion, leopard, elephant, buffalo, rhino) as well as all of South Africa’s famous game species.

You will be transferred back to the airport, where you will fly to Johannesburg and connect to Port Elizabeth. There you will be met and transferred to your hotel. The following day you will be picked up by your personal guide, who will show you the sights of Port Elizabeth. This town, known as the Friendly City, and its surroundings, is the site of most of the Frontier Wars. These were fought between settlers and the Xosa tribes, whose expansion due to ever growing cattle herds brought them into competition with the settlers for land. It is from here that the Boers decided to trek when the British abolished slavery. You will have a guide to show you the sights and give you a comprehensive run-down on its interesting history.

This afternoon you will be transferred to the airport to fly to Cape Town, where you will be met and transferred to your luxury hotel at the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront. Check in and go down into the Waterfront, where you have a choice of many restaurants and music clubs (mostly jazz). The next three days will be fully guided and will include Table Mountain, the Cape Peninsula, the City with its Slave Lodge and Castle, the Wine Country, Robben Island, the Cape of Good Hope and many more splendid sights. Your fourth day in Cape Town will be a "down" day. This is to give you the opportunity to do some last minute shopping, see those things that are of interest to some and not to others — i.e. a day of personal choices.

For more information and costs, Colin Thompson: 610-932-5740
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