EXPLORE SOUTH AFRICA
South Africa’s has it all: abundant wildlife, beautiful beaches, year-round sunshine....Why don’t you extend your travel with a couple of days and explore one of the destination attractions in the area....?
WILD AND SCENIC KRUGER PARK SAFARI
Dates: Saturday, 15 January – Wednesday, 19 January 2011
Vehicle: Microbus
Visa/Passport: No
Languages: English / German
Min/max pax: 2 - 7
Routing: Johannesburg - Johannesburg
PROGRAMME:
Saturday, 15 January 2011
Upon arrival at Johannesburg’s OR Tambo Airport, you will met by a representative of African Olive Travel Concepts and shown to the awaiting vehicle for the transfer to the Airport Grand Hotel where you will spend the night on a bed and full breakfast basis.
Accommodation: Airport Grand Hotel – Bed and Breakfast
Sunday, 16 January 2011
You will be collected at your hotel and head east to Mpumalanga (‘Place Where the Sun Rises’), via the historic towns of Witbank, Dullstroom and Lydenburg. Travel over Robber’s Pass on to the quaint mining town of Pilgrim’s Rest where you will have a short stop. Visit the Lone Creek Waterfalls before arriving at your elegant hideaway. Lone Creek River Lodge (Timber Cottages) or similar - bed and breakfast basis
Accommodation: Lone Creek River Lodge or similar - Dinner Bed and Breakfast
Monday, 17 January 2011
After an early morning breakfast, enter the world famous Kruger National Park, unrivalled for its diversity of flora, fauna and bird life, seeking the Big Five. Leave the park and continue to your private game lodge. Arrive in time for afternoon tea, followed by your evening game drive in an open safari vehicle. Return to the lodge for dinner under the stars (weather permitting). Makalali Private Game Lodge or similar - dinner, bed and breakfast basis + 2 game viewing activities
Accommodation: Makalali Game Lodge or similar - Dinner Bed and Breakfast
Tuesday, 18 January 2011
After an early morning bush walk or game drive and breakfast, leave the lodge and enter the Panorama Route, featuring the Blyde River Canyon, the Three Rondawels, Bourke’s Luck Potholes, God’s Window and Mac Mac Waterfalls. Arrive at your overnight destination late afternoon. Protea Hotel Kruger Gate - dinner, bed and breakfast basis.
Accommodation: Protea Hotel Kruger Gate or similar - Dinner Bed and Breakfast
Wednesday, 19 January 2011
After an early breakfast, your journey to Johannesburg begins with a short game drive in the Kruger National Park in your closed vehicle. Exit the park and drive through Nelspruit to Machadodorp to arrive in Johannesburg with drop off at the Da Vinci Hotel in Sandton.
Accomodation: Da Vinci Hotel or similar – Bed and Breakfast
MADIKWE BUSH BREAK
Dates: Tuedays, 18 January – Thursday, 20 January 2011
Can also be offered as a post tour option from
Monday, 24 – Wednesday, 26 January 2011
Vehicle Microbus
Visa/Passport No
Languages English
Min/max pax 2 - 7
PROGRAMME:
Tuesday, 18 January 2011
On arrival at the airport you will be met by a representative of African Olive Travel Concepts and you will be shown to the awaiting vehicle for the transfer to Tau Game Lodge in the Madikwe Game Reserve. You will receive a warm African welcome with lunch, time to freshen before heading out on an afternoon game viewing safari This afternoon, enjoy game viewing in 4x4 open vehicles. Tonight you will dine under an African Sky.
Accommodation: Tau Game Lodge or similar – all meals and afternoon game viewing safari
Wednesday, 19 January 2011
Enjoy an early morning game drive. Return to the lodge to freshen up and enjoy a hearty breakfast. The midday hours are free for relaxing or lounging poolside. Optional guided nature walk with your local tracker. A high tea will be served before your late afternoon game drive. Return to the lodge for dinner under the stars.
Accommodation: Tau Game Lodge or similar – all meals and twice daily game viewing safaris
Thursday, 20 January 2011
A final early morning game drive and breakfast ends your exhilarating bush experience. Transfer to the Sun City Resort Complex for the start of the MDPR race.
CAPE TOWN & THE NATIONAL LOFTS
Dates: Monday, 24 January – Friday, 28 January 2011
Vehicle Microbus
Visa/Passport No
Languages English
Min/max pax 2 - 7
PROGRAMME:
PROGRAMME:
Monday, 24 January 2011
After breakfast and check-out formalities at your Sun City Hotel of choice, you will be transferred to Johannesburg’s Lanseria Airport for the scheduled flight to Cape Town. Upon arrival in Cape Town you are met by a representative of African Olive Travel Concepts and transferred to the Ambassador Hotel in Bantry Bay where accommodation is reserved for the next 4 nights.
Accommodation: Ambassador Hotel or similar – Bed and breakfast
Tuesday, 25 January 2011
Breakfast is served at leisure where after you have the morning at leisure to explore the beaches in the area.
14h00 Depart on an afternoon visit of Cape Town City and visit Table Mountain. Take the rotair cable car to the top for panoramic views of the city where after you will drive past the e Houses of Parliament, City Hall, the Castle and the Slave Lodge. Continue via District Six to Jewel Africa for a conducted tour and meeting with the master diamond cutter who will guide guests through a diamond cutting and polishing tour unveiling the intricate skills of diamond polishing, sharing the intriguing history and mystique of diamonds. You be able to experience the production process of chain making in its entirety - a highlight being the pouring of a 9-carat gold bar where after you return to the hotel in the late afternoon.
Accommodation: Ambassador Hotel or similar – Bed and breakfast
Wednesday, 26 January 2011
Breakfast is served at your hotel where after you are collected and transferred to the Cape Winelands areas of Paarl, Franschoek and Stellenbosch. The morning starts with a visit to the South African National Lofts outside Paarl for a conducted visit with the loft manager. Thereafter we travel to Fairview Wine Estate for a cheese and wine tasting.
Continue to Franschoek with time to browse through the many shops and galleries where after a hearty lunch is served. From Franschoek we return to Cape Town via a short drive through tour of Stellenbosh for a late afternoon visit with a local pigeon fancier.
Return to the hotel in the late afternoon.
Overnight accommodation: Ambassador Hotel or similar – Breakfast and lunch
Thursday, 27 January 2011
Breakfast is served at the hotel where after you are collected for the full day excursion of the Cape Peninsula. Travel from Bantry Bay via Camps Bay to Hout Bay where you will embark on a 35 minute cruise to Seal Island. Afterwards, continue along the scenic Chapmans Peak to Simonstown where you will visit Boulder’s Beach with their colony of African Jackass Penguins in their natural habitat. Lunch is served en route with a local seafood flair. After lunch we make our way to the Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve where we visit Cape Point. Return to Cape Town in the late afternoon.
Overnight accommodation: Ambassador Hotel or similar – Breakfast and lunch
Friday, 28 January 2011
Breakfast is served at the hotel with the morning at leisure. You will be collected from the hotel for the transfer to Cape Town International Airport to connect with your departure flight.
ZAMBIA – IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF DAVID LIVINGSTONE
Dates: Monday, 24 January – Friday, 28 January 2011
Vehicle Microbus
Languages English
Min/max pax 2 - 7
PROGRAMME:
Monday, 24 January 2011
After breakfast and check-out formalities you will be collected and transferred to Johannesburg’s OR Tambo Airport for check-in formalities for the scheduled flight to Livingstone, Zambia.
Arrival in Zambia where you are met and transferred to the Zambezi Sun Hotel situated on the banks for the Zambezi River, a stone throw away from the magnificent falls. The remainder of the day is at leisure to relax and enjoy your surroundings.
Accommodation: Zambezi Sun Hotel – bed and breakfast
Tuesday, 25 January 2011
After breakfast, you are collected for the guided tour of the Victoria Falls. The Victoria Falls – Now In Its 150 Millionth Fantastic Year - Reaches Its Zenith In About May Each Year. It’s a truly awe-inspiring experience – the sight, the sound, the smell; the humbling feeling that here indeed is Nature’s Supreme Masterpiece. No photograph can begin to depict the reality…and nothing prepares you for your first sight.
Return to the hotel around mid day for a lunch and siesta break. In the afternoon you will be collected and transferred to the jetty for an afternoon sundowner cruise on the Zambezi. The cruise includes finger snacks, beer, wine, champagne and soft drinks. There are great photo opportunities against often-spectacular African sunsets!
Accomodation: Zambezi Sun Hotel – bed and breafkast
Wednesday, 26 January 2011
Breakfast is served at the hotel where after you are collected for the full day excursion to the Chobe National Park in Botswana.
The day commence with a transfer to the Kazungula border where you cross the iver to Botswana and then proceed to the Chobe National Park for a morning game drive in open safari vehicles in search of the Big Five.
The morning game drive ends at around 12.30hrs and you will be transferred to a river bank site at a nearby game lodge for lunch. A game viewing river cruise follows the lunch, where you will have the opportunity to enjoy an abundance of wildlife and a spectacular sunset.
In the late afternoon we return to the Kazungula border where they will be met by their Zambian guide for their return transfer to Livingstone arriving at approximately 18.30hrs.
Accommodation: Zambezi Sun Hotel – bed and breakfast (with lunch in Chobe)
Thursday, 27 January 2011
Breakfast is served at the hotel where after you are collected for the transfer to Livingstone Airport to connect with the return scheduled flight to Johannesburg.
