Place of Heaven Tour

No of pax: Min 2

Dates: On demand

Duration: 9 Nights / 10 Days

 Recommended add-on Tour: 3 Day - Cape Town

Meals: ( B - Breakfast, L - Lunch, D - Dinner)

• Accommodation is subject to availability, if the under mentioned accommodation is not available we shall endeavor to supply comparable facilities

Day 1:

Morning arrival in South Africa, your guide will meet you upon arrival at Johannesburg International Airport (TIA). Depart to Pretoria for a city tour that includes the Voortrekker Monument, Paul Kroger House, Church Square and Union Buildings. Lunch in Pretoria. Overnight near Muldersdrift just outside Pretoria, dinner at the Carnivore restaurant.

Accommodation: Misty Hills Hotel (D) ****

Day 2:

Depart to Mkuze via Ermelo and Piet Retief, lunch along the way. Overnight on a private game reserve in Maputoland.

Accommodation: Ezulwini Lodge (B & D) ***

Day 3:

Take a cruise on the St Lucia estuary, a lake riddled with crocodiles and hippos in the Greater St Lucia Wetlands. Travel to the Hluhluwe I Umfolozi Game Reserve, in by-gone years this reserve was the hunting grounds of Zulu Kings. Spend the rest of day in search of the "Big Five" and a host of other animals. Dinner at the camp's restaurant. Overnight in this park.

Accommodation: Hilltop Camp (B & D) ****

Optional activities: Evening game drive.

Day 4:

Spend the morning in the Hluhluwe I Umfolozi Game Reserve, which is renowned for its white & bI.ack rhino conservation efforts. Overnight in Zululand. Enjoy Zulu hospitality at its best with a traditional Zulu festival at Shakaland, dinner at the hotel.

Accommodation: Shakaland Protea Hotel (B & D) ****

Optioul activities: Early morning bush walk -with game ranger.

Day 5:

Early departure for a day of history and battlefields, visit places that still exude an ambience of a once mighty Zulu nation. such as the "Battle of Blood River", the Anglo-Zulu war battlefields of Isandlwan and Rorke's Drift. Overnight in Umhlanga. Evening at leisure.

Accomodation: Umhlanga Protea Hotel (B) ****

Day 6:

Day at leisure in Umhlanga with its golden beaches washed by the warm Indian Ocean in a subtropical settmg.. Dinner at The Famous Fish Company restaurant on the "Poine' at Durban harbour. Overnight Umhlanga.

Accommodation: Umhlanga Protea Hotel (B) ****

Day 7:

Travel to the Royal Natal National Park via the historical city of Pietermaritzburg, stop for lunch at Howick Waterfalls. overnight in the northern Natal Drakensberg Mountains.

Accommodation: Sources Hotel (B & D) ***

Day 8:

A day at leisure in the beautiful Natal Drakensburg Mountains where the Tugela Falls (second highest Waterfall in the world I plummets in a series of sheer falls and cascades, and where Bushman left their life stories in the form of paintings and drawings on the rocks and in the caves

Accommodation: mont Aux sources Hotel (B & D) ***

Day 9:

Travel the Oliviershoek Pass to the village of Clarens and the Golden Gate Highlands National Park. Spend the afternoon relaxing at the hotel or take a walk along one of the munerous nature trails in the park. Horse riding and game drives also available.

Accommodation: Golden Gate Highlands National Park & Brandwag Hotel (B & D) ***

Day 10:

Back to Johannesburg the conunercial hub of South Africa. Township tour of Soweto. Time for last minute shopping before your departure.

Accommodation: - (B)

OR

Recommended - Cape" Town Add-on Tour:

Travel to JIA. catch your flight to Cape Town (Reconunend flight booking: 14hOO). Your guide will meet you on arrival in CT. Do a city tour of South Africa's beautiful mother city, this tour includes the Castle of Good Hope, Parade Ground, City Hall, Houses of Parliament. Tuinhuis and the Dutch East India Company Gardens, these gardens became known to early travelers as" the noblest and most beautiful curiosity in Africa". Dinner at a restaurant on the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront. Accommodation: LionskloofLodge (D) ***

Day 11:

Take a scenic drive around the Cape of Good Hope. Visit Hout Bay and the Cape Fur Seal colony on

Duiker Island, Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve, Cape Point, Boulders - Penguins and Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens. Lunch along the way. Optional and weather permitting - we take the cableway up Table Mountain. Evening at leisure. Overnight in Cape Town.

Accommodation: LionskloofLodge (B) ***

Day 12:

Wine tasting and cellar tour at one of the wine estates along the Cape's world-renowned Stellenbosch Wine Route, also spend some time in the picturesque towns of Stellenbosch and Franschhoek. Enjoy sundowners on Signal Hill before your farewell dinner at Vijff Vlieghen (Five Flies) Restaurant. Overnight in Cape Town. 

Accommodation: LionskloofLodge (B & D) ***

Day 13:

Morning at leisure or you could visit Robben Island, the place where Mr. Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for 18 years. Lunch at the V &.A Waterfront. time for last minute shopping. Transfer to Cape Town International Airport for your flight home.

Accommodation: - (B)

 Included: Acconunodation (3-4*), transport, guide, meals as indicated and all entrance fees as per itinerary.

Excluded: Air ticket (all flights), passport and visa fees, airport tax, insurance, phone calls, facsimiles, beverages, all gratuities, items of a personal nature and excess baggage.

IMPORTANT

Various other guesthouses or lodges can be used to reduce the costs of above tour. A camping option is also available. "