Kruger, Cape Town & Falls

13 Days , CAPE TOWN to LIVINGSTONE

What's Included

Orientation tour of Cape Town and Cape Point including the penguins at Boulders Beach. Traditional Braai (BBQ) welcome dinner. Panoramic Route scenic drive including visits to Blyde River Canyon, Bourke Luck

Potholes and God's Window. Kruger National Park entrance fee with game drive in open vehicle. Visit a local village and Planeterra-supported school. Private Nature Reserve entrance fee with game drives in open safari vehicles. Dinner with a local Afrikaans family. Tour of Victoria Falls. Overseas Medical Insurance for the duration of the tour (Sum of US$ 2,50,000 covered) Meals Included: 12 breakfasts, 1 lunch and 5 dinners. 9 nights accommodation at the hotels mentioned or similar 1 night accommodation in Lodge. 2 nights accommodation in a Chalet. Arrival Airport Transfer on Day 1 by a Shared Vehicle Chief Experience Officer (CEO) in Cape Town, CEO/driver for Kruger portion, local G

representative in Livingstone.

VERY IMPORTANT: Please ensure that you print a final copy of your Trip Details toreview a couple of days prior to travel, in case there have been changes that affectyour plans.

Itinerary

DAY 1 Cape Town

Arrive at any time. Arrival transfer included. Meet our Cape Town CEO at thehotel (on Day 1 at approx. 6:00PM - please have a look at the informationboard in the hotel), he/she will go through your trip details and will help youwith booking optional activities and will be your contact person for the nextdays.

DAY 2 Cape town

Meet your CEO after breakfast (approx 8:00am) in reception and enjoy afull-day of activities. First explore Cape Town on an orientation of the city,drive past Company Gardens, parliament buildings, city hall, Malay Quarter

/Bo Kaap and Green Market Square. Include entrance fee to Castle of GoodHope. In the afternoon tour Cape point. Explore Cape of Good Hope NatureReserve and see the penguins at Boulder Beach.View the Company's Garden, City Hall, Malay quarter and Green marketsquare en route.

DAY 3 Cape town

You will have the whole day to enjoy optional activities on your own. Your CEOwill meet you in the morning to help you book any activities and to make sureyou are well taken care of for the rest of the day.

For the not so faint hearted there is numerous adrenaline activities in thesurrounding areas, from skydiving to abseiling to cage diving and having aclose encounter with the great white sharks. Or wonder through the citycentre with some of the oldest buildings and gardens in South Africa (BotanicalGardens and Parliament Gardens). Do not miss the wonderful CulturalHistorical Museum, Planetarium and numerous other small museums andtheatres.

For shopping, dining and entertainment the V&A Waterfront is a hotspot forforeigners and locals alike. Still a working harbour, the Waterfront is anexample of creative architecture and restoration and has become SouthAfrica's most visited tourist attraction. The Waterfront offers over 250 shopsfrom designer boutiques to craft stalls, a host of restaurants and coffee shopsand plenty of other activities.

Opt to visit Robben Island, Table Mountain, or embark on a wine tour aroundStellenbosch.

DAY 4 Johannesburg

You will say goodbye to your Cape Town CEO and fly to Johannesburg andtransfer to hotel. Meet your local CEO for a briefing and enjoy a traditionalSouth African Braai (barbecue) welcome dinner tonight.

DAY 5 Panorama Route/Graskop

Enjoy a scenic drive along the famed Panorama Route with stops at BlydeRiver Canyon, Bourke's Luck Potholes and God's Window.

Explore world famous sites like Blyde River Canyon, Bourke's Luck Potholesand God's Window along the Panorama Route. Look out the window to view awonderful landscape complete with mountains, panoramic passes, valleys andwaterfalls. Enroute, we visit Dullstroom, one of the foremost fly fishing areasin South Africa, the Mac Mac Falls and Pilgrims Rest. Pilgrim's Rest is situatedon the magnificent Panorama Route on the eastern Escarpment region of theMpumalanga province of South Africa. The area is richly imbued with a

diversity of natural, cultural and historic gems. The uniqueness of this historicvillage is vividly evident in its museums and historic sites. It offers the visitor afascinating window into the past and captures the spirit of a bygone era and itspeople in their quest for gold. The entire town of Pilgrim's Rest was declared aNational Monument in 1986 as a living memory of the early gold rush days inSouth Africa during the late 1800s / early 1900s.

En route we stop by to view the 65 m high Mac Mac Falls in the Mac MacRiver which is a declared as a National Monument. This waterfall wasoriginally a single stream, but gold miners blasted it with dynamite to divertthe river in an attempt to work the rich gold-bearing reef over which it plunges.

Approximate Distance: 420 kmEstimated Travel Time: 6 hrs (including stops for site-seeing)

DAY 6 Kruger National Park area

Continue to our lodge conveniently located outside the park gates. Thisafternoon embark on a game drive inside Kruger National Park in an opensafari vehicle for wildlife viewing. This evening, take in the stunning views ofthe Sabie River Valley from the lodge and enjoy a South African braai dinneron the deck, listing to the night-sounds of Africa.

The world-renowned Kruger National Park offers a wildlife experience thatranks with the best in Africa. Established in 1898 to protect the wildlife of theSouth African Lowveld, this national park of nearly 2 million hectares isunrivaled in the diversity of its life forms and a world leader in advancedenvironmental management techniques and policies.

Truly the flagship of the South African national parks, Kruger is home to animpressive number of species: 336 types of trees, 49 fish, 34 amphibians, 114reptiles, 507 birds and 147 mammals. Man's interaction with the Lowveldenvironment over many centuries - from bushman rock paintings to majesticarchaeological sites like Masorini and Thulamela - is very evident in the KrugerNational Park. These treasures represent the cultures, persons and events thatplayed a role in the history of the Kruger National Park and are conservedalong with the park's natural assets.

Approximate Distance: 250 km

Estimated Travel Time: 8 hrs (including lunch stop and game viewing)

DAY 7 Karongwe Private Nature Reserve

This morning, visit to a Planeterra-supported Children's Day School andShalati Village, located just outside Krugar National Park. Continue to aprivate nature reserve, in the Greater Kruger area and stay in a luxury safari

lodge. Enjoy morning and evening open vehicle safari game drives searchingout Africa's famed Big Five. In your down time, take high-tea at the lodge andrelax at the sundeck and pool. Enjoy a sundowner while the sun sets over themagnificent Drakensberg Mountains.

In the morning, visit Planeterra-supported, Hope Africa Children's Day School,close to the lodge in Shalati Village. G Adventures, Planeterra and the ShalatiLodge work closely with the school to provide not only funds for improvementsand supplies, but also hands-on support with lesson plans and resourceassistance. Many of the parents of the children that attend this school are staffat the lodge and rangers at the park -- the education centre allows for theirchildren to have full-time access to early childhood education, while also beingcared for so their parents can preform their livelihoods.

You will have a quick stop at this school first thing in the morning to see themorning announcements/ songs of the students. The school has a principal andtwo full-time teachers who will discuss the work that is done at the school.While the students commence with their classes, you will have a chance towalk around the grounds with you CEO who will show you the school facilities.Planeterra and G Adventures recently built a new kitchen, toilets, and watertank for the school. Future plans include expanding a community garden andcraft stall that will be run by the mother's of the children to each extra incomefor their families.

For the next two days enjoy morning and evening game drives in our opensafari vehicle in Karongwe Nature Reserve searching for elephant, lion, rhino,leopard and buffalo - Africa's famed Big 5. Traversing over the 9000 hectaresof supreme African bushveld, Shiduli Private Game Lodge is home to a wealthof creatures and open vehicle game drives are perfect for game viewing. Gamedrives are conducted with qualified game rangers and Shangaan trackers -who will share their vast experience of the African Bush. Day 7 - ApproximateDistance: 150 km

Estimated Travel Time: 3 hrs (including stops)

DAY 8 Karongwe Private Nature Reserve

Early morning wake up call (around 5am), coffee/tea & rusks on the deckbefore the morning open vehicle game drive (approx 3 hours) starts. Return tothe Lodge for brunch followed by some leisure time. Enjoy the pool, walkaround the grounds and gardens, or just relax. Around 14:30pm enjoy HighTea (light lunch and cakes) before you hop on your late afternoon/ eveningopen safari vehicle game drive. Return, freshen up and meet for pre-dinnerdrinks and enjoy dinner.

DAY 9 Johannesburg

After one last safari drive, head back to the city. Tonight, enjoy a farewelldinner with a local Afrikaans family.

Johannesburg, also known as eGoli, is the most populous city in South Africa.The city is affectionately known as "Jo'burg", "Jozi" and "JHB" by SouthAfricans. Johannesburg is the site of a large-scale gold and diamond trade dueto its location on the mineral-rich Witwatersrand range of hills. Johannesburgis also served by Johannesburg International Airport, the largest and busiestairport in Africa and a gateway for international air travel to and from the restof southern Africa.

Approximate Distance: 500 kmEstimated Travel Time: 7 hrs

DAY 10 Livingstone

Fly to Livingston, Zambia and meet the local G representative then enjoy aguided tour of Victoria Falls.

David Livingstone was born on March 19, 1813 in the village of Blantyre,South Lanarkshire, Scotland. He first studied Greek, medicine, and theology atthe University of Glasgow and while working in London, joined the LondonMissionary Society became a minister. He originally planned to gain access toChina through his medical knowledge. The Opium Wars, which were raging atthis stage with no signs of peace on the horizon, forced Livingstone to considerother options. From 1840 he worked in Bechuanaland (present-day Botswana),and in the period 1852-56, he explored the African interior, and was the firstEuropean to see the Mosi-oa-Tunya waterfall, which he renamed Victoria Fallsafter his monarch, Queen Victoria. The Victoria Falls waterfalls occur in acountry that is perfectly flat. From its source on the borders of the DemocraticRepublic of Congo, the Zambezi River meanders for 1300 km across thewooded plateau of Zambia, eroding for itself a shallow valley on its milddescent to the site of the falls. The river eventually found a weak spot on thelower lip of the surface over which it passed, and forced a passage which wassteadily deepened into an exit gorge. During the last half million years theriver has scoured out eight of these cracks across its bed. The Victoria fallsoccur where the river is 1688m wide, presents the spectacle of an averagemaximum of 550 million liters of water a minute tumbling over the lip of thetrench in five main falls, the Devil's Cataract, Main falls, Horseshoe Falls,Rainbow falls and the Eastern Cataract. The highest of these is Rainbow falls,on an average 108 m high. A peak flood sees 750 million liters of water in oneminute hurtling over the falls.

The name Zambezi comes from the Tonka tribe, also meaning Great River, butthe Sotho-speaking Kololo people of the upper reaches of the river gave it thewell-known name of Mosi o a Thunya (smoke that rises). The Lozi people call itby the same name but translated it into smoke that sounds. The Ndebele call it

aManza Thunqayo (the water that rises like smoke). The Namibian people callit Chinotimba (a noise-making place like the distant sound of digging).

Estimate Travel Time: Flight Johannesburg - Livingstone (2hrs)

DAY 11 Livingstone

Day at Leisure.Options to enjoy whitewater rafting, canoeing, safari activities or a flight overthe falls.

DAY 12 Livingstone

Day at Leisure.Options to enjoy whitewater rafting, canoeing, safari activities or a flight overthe falls.

DAY 13 Livingstone

Depart at any time.