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Johannesburg Art Tour *
Walk Jo'burg's "Art Mile", visiting up to 10 galleries
Talk to curators and participate in walkabouts
On busy days visit the vibrant Maboneng Art Precinct
Shop for genuine artifacts & momentoes
Watch a street craftsman skillfully weave a wire sculpture
Visit the Origins Museum to see Bushman paintings
* Day Tour – all inclusive
From R1784 pp
African Wildlife Photo Safaris *
Visit the iconic Kruger National Park
Heal your soul by communing with wild animals in the bushveld
Learn about the wonders of nature with a knowledgeable guide
Let an award-winning cinematographer/photographer help you get special pictures
Enjoy a delicious braai (barbecue) under open skies, and gaze at the southern stars
Price is all inclusive, departs/ends Johannesburg
* "Midrange" means normal accommodation in Kruger National Park (KNP)
"Luxury" means 4 or 5 star accommodation at a private lodge
All tours include 3 nights in KNP
4-Day (Midrange – all in KNP) from R15235–R31724 per person per day
6-Day (Midrange – 2 nights at private lodge) from R33517 pppd
7-Day (Luxury 4 nights at private lodges) R44503 pppd
10-day Special Private Photo Safari available. P.O.A.
(Discounted prices may apply if you book via SafariBookings.com)
Cradle of Humankind Tour *
Visit the Origins Museum to see the history of
Humankind and Bushman paintings
Travel to the Cradle and the Sterkfontein Caves
See the sites where famous discoveries were made
Visit the modern Maropeng Museum to step
back millions of years, then into the future!
* Day Tour – all inclusive
From R2530–R2706 pp
Birding Day Tours *
Gauteng offers amazing birding opportunities, especially in the world's largest human-made forest. About 350 species can be spotted on a good day. David is an enthusiastic birder, not an ornithologist, so have reasonable expectations!
Tour 1(North): Rietfontein Nature Reserve, Pretoria surrounds (bushveld, and highveld grasslands, water birds, garden birds)
Tour 2 (Reef): Walter Sisulu Botanic Gardens, Delta Park, Klipriviersberg NR (Verreaux's eagles, raptors, water birds, garden birds, bush and grassland birds)
Tour 3 (South): Marievale, Suikerbosrand (wetlands, grasslands, bushveld, woodlands)
Other tours further afield can be arranged by appointment.
* Day Tour only From R2530–R2710 pp
Soweto Experience *
Hear how apartheid divided the races, and kept communities apart
Visit the Hector Pietersen Memorial, the first police victim on 16 June 1976. He was 12
Nearby, walk down Vilikazi Street, home of two Nobel Peace Prize winners
Walk through the first home of Winnie and Nelson Mandela
Have lunch at the most famous eatery and tavern in Soweto
Tour the Apartheid Museum, a chilling reminder of racial discrimination
* Day Tour only From R1128–R3685 pp
Apartheid History Tour *
Two-day tours are offered, a single day or both. One tour focuses on
the capital, Pretoria (Tshwane) and deals with a longer period of history, including
how apartheid's architects hid evidence of earlier civilisations to reduce black
people to "hewers of wood and drawers of water".
The second tour focuses specifically on apartheid history since the 1950s, the rise of
the ANC as an underground resistance liberation movement, and the markers of
that period, Sharpeville, the Treason Trial, the Rivonia Trial, 16 June 1976, the two
States of Emergency, the rise of the United Democratic Front, and finally,
the end of apartheid in 1994.
* Two different day tours are offered:
Pretoria: Choose three of the following: Union Buildings, Solomon Mahlangu
monument in Mamelodi Township,
the Voortrekker Monument and Freedom Park,
Johannesburg/Soweto options: Liliesleaf Museum or the famed Vilikazi Street, Hector
Pietersen Memorial, Lunch at a famous tavern, Regina Mundi church,and the Apartheid
Museum or the Constitutional Court.
From R2453–R2627 pp per day, or R3950 pp for two days
Ndebele Cultural Tour *
The Ndebele people are world famous for their mural art and beadwork
Your guide, David, has collaborated with Ndebele artistic families for 30+ years
He has made two films and written about Ndebele culture and rituals
Meet artists whose houses are painted in their famous mural style
Shop for original Ndebele roll-up canvases by famous artists or beaded artifacts
Visit a church painted three times inside & out by legendary Francina Ndimande
See the new styles of mural painting that are emerging, compared with the old
* Full Day Tour or overnight in secluded small game reserve
This artwork is by famed Ndebele artist Dr Esther Mahlangu
From R3960–R4237 pp or R7050 pp (overnight)
Makhonjwa Geo-Trail (World Heritage Site) *
Touch some of the oldest rocks in the world in the Makhonjwa Mountains,
Gaze at some of the most breathtaking scenery on the border with eSwatini (formerly
Swaziland, the Mountain Kingdom).
This area is the site of the Barberton Greenstone Belt, one of the world's oldest and most
accessible geological sites. It boasts volcanic and other rock formations dating back
3.8-billion years. Not many people visit it, yet.
At each stop, a different geological formation is described. Illustrated panels show how
inland seas, sediments and volcanos created the landscape we see today.
The Geotrail is part of a new tourism route being developed called the Genesis Route.
* Morning, afternoon or full-day picnic excursion FROM Barberton, stopping at each site.
Allow at least six hours for the trail, more if you are serious about geology.
From R2500 pp (can only be added on to other Mpumalanga Province Tours)
Mpumalanga Panorama Tour *
The Panorama Tour follows the edge of the Draneksberg escarpment and has incredible views over the Lowveld and down the Blyde River Canyon, the biggest green canyon in the world.
The K2C Biosphere project runs 11 projects across the region linking sustainable development with biodiversity conservation, such as protecting areas, conservation, capacity building in local rural communities, water security, invasive plant clearing etc.
Covering 2.6m hectares, on the western border of the iconic Kruger National Park, this biosphere represents only 1.4% of SA's total land surface, but contains nearly 75% of all terrestrial bird species, 80% of all raptor species, 72% of all mammals, 50% of all butterflies and 50% of all frog species found in SA.
Famous tourism hotspots include God's Window, Bourke's Luck Potholes, Pilgrim's Rest,the Three Rondavels, the famous Long Tom Pass,and the Horse Shoe, Lone Creek, Bridal Veil, Berlin, Lisbon and Mac Mac waterfalls.
You can also enjoy spectacular views with the Gorge Lift as you descend to the forest below, or take a walk through a rain forest at the top of the escarpment.
From R2500pp (only available as an add-on to another Mpumalanga Tour)
