DAY 1: Sun - Feb 16, 2025 - Departure from USA
- Depart the USA to Cape Town.
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DAY 2: Mon - Feb 17, 2025 - Connection
- Arrive in Doha to connect with the flight to Cape Town
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DAY 3: Tue - Feb 18, 2025 - Arrival to Cape Town, Welcome Dinner
- Upon arriving in Cape Town, South Africa Mother City you will be warmly welcomed and transferred to your luxurious hotel.
- The rest of your day is at your leisure to begin exploring one of the most beautiful cities in the world.
- Tonight, Enjoy a Welcome Dinner at Gold Restaurant
- Overnight in Cape Town
- Meal: Dinner
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DAY 4: Wed - Feb 19, 2025 - Full Day Cape Peninsula Tour
- After breakfast at the hotel, depart on a Full day Cape Peninsula Tour, including Table Mountain, Chapmans Peak Drive, Cape Point, a Funicular ride to the lighthouse, and Boulders Penguin Colony in Simonstown.
- You will stop for lunch during your tour.
- Return to Cape Town and your hotel for a free evening.
- Overnight in Cape Town
- Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
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DAY 5: Thu - Feb 20, 2025 - Robben Island Tour (weather permitted)
- After enjoying a delicious breakfast, you will meet with your guide and depart to Victoria and Alfred Waterfront to board a ferry for Robben Island World Heritage Site (weather permitted tour). During the years of Apartheid rule in South Africa, the island gained notoriety. It served as a place of exile for dissidents and political prisoners, with the most prominent figure being the former president, Nelson Mandela. This tour aims to shed light on the immense struggles, aspirations, and yearnings for freedom that became synonymous with Nelson Mandela`s imprisonment on this island.
- We will start our tour of Robben Island Museum. Ferries depart from the Nelson Mandela Gateway at the V & A Waterfront. You will disembark at Murray`s Bay Harbor situated on the east coast of the Island and take a short walk to buses that will transport you to all the historical sites around the Island. On the way to the buses, you will pass buildings and a high wall built by prisoners during the 1960s. The buildings were used for family and lawyer visits to prisoners. The tour route includes the graveyard of people who died from leprosy, the Lime Quarry, Robert Sobukwe`s house, the Bluestone quarry, the army and navy bunkers and the Maximum-Security Prison where thousands of South Africa`s freedom fighters were incarcerated for years. The tour culminates with a viewing of Nelson Mandela`s cell.
- Note: The operation of the Robben Island ferry is dependent on weather and sea conditions. If the ferry is cancelled, the visit to Robben Island will be cancelled with no refund.
- Overnight in Cape Town
- Meal: Breakfast
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DAY 6: Fri - Feb 21, 2025 - Stellenbosch Wine Tour
- After breakfast at the hotel, travel to the Wine Country.
- Stellenbosch could be regarded as the wine capital of South Africa. Hosting more private cellars than any other area, Stellenbosch is also the center of viticulture and oenological research and training. The extraordinary natural settings combined with world-class wine tasting experiences and cuisine will create life-long memories. We will visit only the best wine estates and have lunch at one of the most prestigious wineries in the world.
- Overnight in Cape Town
- Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
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DAY 7: Sat - Feb 22, 2025 - Cape Town, Kruger National Park, Evening Game Drive
- After breakfast at our hotel, meet in the lobby after check-out for departure to the airport for your flight to Kruger Mpumalanga International Airport.
- Upon arrival meet with the hotel representative, transfer to the Kapama River Lodge.
- Free time to relax and enjoy the Kapama Lodge`s amenities with all meals, teas and snacks, all local drinks, a choice of wines and premium drinks.
- This evening you will enjoy a game drive.
- Overnight in Kruger National Park
- Meals: All inclusive
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DAY 8: Sun - Feb 23, 2025 - Kruger National Park, Morning, and Evening Game Drives
- Morning and evening game drives.
- Overnight in Kruger National Park
- Meals: All inclusive
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DAY 9: Mon - Feb 24, 2025 - Kruger National Park, Morning, and Evening Game Drives.
- Morning and evening game drives.
- Overnight in Kruger National Park
- Meals: All inclusive
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DAY 10: Tue - Feb 25, 2025 - Kruger National Park, Johannesburg, Lesedi Cultural Village
- After breakfast at our hotel, meet in the lobby after check-out for departure to the airport for your flight to Johannesburg.
- Upon arrival at Johannesburg airport, you will be met and transferred to our hotel.
- Tonight enjoy a cultural tour of the many groups of South Africa at Lesedi Cultural Village. This renowned village is located in the heart of the African bushveld amidst the rocky hills within the Cradle of Humankind, a World Heritage Site. You`ll discover the fascinating cultures and traditions of the people of Africa. Visit five traditional homesteads inhabited Zulu, Xhosa, Pedi, Basotho, and Ndebele tribes who live according to the tribal folklore and traditions of their ancestors. Our culture is the light of our nation whoever walks here amongst our cultures at Lesedi can also see the light.
- A South African Dinner Buffet is included.
- Overnight in Johannesburg
- Meals: Breakfast, Dinner
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DAY 11: Wed - Feb 26, 2025 - Johannesburg, Journey to Freedom Tour
- After breakfast at the hotel, you will be met by the guide for a full day Journey to Freedom Tour beginning at the Hector Pieterson Museum, where we start to unravel the cause of the devastating riots, before travelling past Mandela House, where you have the possibility to visit this small museum.
- Our next significant stop is the fascinating Regina Mundi Church, site of so many of the underground meetings of the then banned political parties. Standing there, you can feel the tension picture the intensity, the strain on the faces of those unthinkably brave souls, committed at any cost to changing the way of life of a nation.
- Lunch at a local restaurant.
- Overnight in Johannesburg
- Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
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DAY 12: Thu - Feb 27, 2025 - Johannesburg, Apartheid Museum
- After breakfast at our hotel, we will be met and transferred to visit legendary Apartheid Museum. This is an interactive voyage of discovery, one which takes you from the dark days of whites only privilege, through to Nelson Mandela`s historic release. The Apartheid Museum is a multimedia experience, with documentary film snippets, texts, sound clips and live accounts, recapturing life in the dark days of South Africa.
- Overnight in Johannesburg
- Meal: Breakfast
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DAY 13: Fri - Feb 28, 2025 - Johannesburg, Victoria Falls, Zambezi River Cruise
- After breakfast transfer to Johannesburg International airport for your flight to Victoria Falls.
- Upon arrival meet and transfer to our hotel.
- In the evening you will enjoy Zambezi River Song Sunset Cruise.
- A sunset cruise is the perfect way to end off the day. Relax on one of our sofas as the sun sets but keep an eye on the water for sightings of hippo, elephant, and crocodiles. Enjoy an abundance of delicious hors d`oeuvres throughout the cruise, as well as ion of cocktails, premium drinks, beers, juice, water, and soft drinks.
- Overnight in Victoria Falls
- Meal: Breakfast
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DAY 14: Sat - March 01, 2025 - Guided Walking Safari of the Falles
- After breakfast explore the historic Victoria Falls and its wild, unspoiled surrounds in Zimbabwe, and experience the most classic, awesome views of this world-renowned natural phenomenon, the thundering Victoria Falls. You will experience Guided Walking Safari through the tropical rainforest on the very edge of Victoria Falls, and all the best views of this World Heritage Site from the spectacular Zimbabwean vantage points.
- Overnight in Victoria Falls
- Meal: Breakfast
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DAY 15: Sun - March 02, 2025 - Departure
- Breakfast at our hotel, You will be met and transferred to Victoria Falls airport for our flight to Johannesburg to connect with our flight back to US.
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DAY 16: Mon - March 03, 2025 - Arrival in the USA
- Arrive in the USA. Welcome home.
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