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Duration: | 12 Day(s) - 11 Night(s) |
Tour Category: | Culture Tours |
Mozambique 3 Nights / 3 Days
Day 1: Arrival - Breakfast- Included!
Depending on the flight -Arrival!
Maputo International Airport and be transferred to a hotel.
Overnight at Maputo
Day 2. Maputo City Tour -Breakfast- Included!
Depart after breakfast and do the Maputo – City Tour.
Overnight at Hotel.
Day 3: Ferry Tour - Breakfast- Included! Weather Depending!
Please note that Ferry only runs on Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sundays, if DHOWS aren’t available!
Depart after breakfast and get down to the harbour very early 06H45, for Inhaca Island!!
Optional Activities, not including a cruise to Inhaca Island and spending the afternoon at Tropical Beach Resort!
Swaziland- 3 Nights / 3 Days
Day 4: National Park Tour - Breakfast- Included!
Depart after breakfast and transfer to the Swaziland border to meet the Swaziland Guide have lunch and do a Sunset Safari drive.
Overnight: At Hotel.
Day 5: Game Drive - Breakfast- Included! Activities are at your Own Cost!
Depart after breakfast for a Game drive- EARLY Morning -half day, return to the lodge for lunch, then decide to do a horseback Safari or a walking Safari.
Either or 2nd Option-
Cultural Village and the Waterfalls Cultural Village, located in a lush setting in the Falls Nature Reserve, give visitors the incredible opportunity to enjoy traditional harmonies and energetic dances. When the show is over, you’ll get to tour a reconstruction of a Swazi hut village from the 1850s.
The Waterfall is about a ten-minute walk from the village. The reserve has a great restaurant/pub on site serving local and international food visit King Sobhuza Memorial Park
Or Option 3
Optional Activities, Not Included = White Water Rafting or Caving, Canopy Tours- Maybe too Extreme! Mountain biking hires 2-3 hours of riding!
Swaziland’s history is surprisingly long and fascinating for such a small nation. Artifacts up to 200 000years old rock paintings from approximately 25,000 BC have been found in the country. Swaziland’s first documented inhabitants, Khoisan hunter-gatherers, were eventually displaced by Bantu tribes who migrated from eastern Africa’s Great Lakes area during the 15th and 16th Centuries.
In more contemporary times, when the then-ruling monarch, King Mswati 11 died in 1982, the Great Council of State selected a young 14-year-old prince to be the next king. He continued his education in England attending Sherbourne School before he was called back to the throne and crowned on 25 April 1986 aged 18 and 6 days! The king and his mother, whose title is Ndlovukati (“Great She-Elephant”), rule jointly.
Overnight: 3-STAR Lodge
Day 6: Village Tour - Breakfast- Included!
After breakfast, we visit the Cultural Village – this is the local chief’s village where we explore authentic Swazi Culture with great photo opportunities. We then proceed to the Valley and the capital city, Mbabane. Depart for the cultural village followed by a trip into the Valley to view Swazi Art & Craft.
Overnight: 3-STAR Lodge
South Africa- 3 Nights / 3 Days
Day 7: South African Border -Breakfast- Included.
Depart after breakfast for the South African border post, book into the lodge, have lunch, and do the Game Drive.
Overnight: At Lodge.
Day 8: Cruising -Breakfast- Included.
Depart after breakfast and do a boat cruise, viewing crocodiles, Hippos, and numerous birdlife species! First World Heritage site named in RSA in 2000!
The place is home to various ecosystems which include swamps, lake systems, coral reefs, beaches, wetlands, woodlands, and coastal forests. The town lies in the heart of unspoiled beauty with plenty of wildlife. Portions of this area have been a game reserve since as early as 1895. There is a place within the World Heritage Site and approaching the area from other places is truly spectacular. Lake is rich in rare marine fossils, and research done here has indicated that the area started forming approximately 140,000,000 years ago.
Overnight in Underberg Lodge.
Day 9: Swartburg -Breakfast - Included!
Traveling through the small town of Swartburg. Enjoy traveling through the picturesque farmlands of East Griqualand with traditionally decorated huts along the route. A scenic drive through a bushy landscape, small forests, and farmland dotted with picturesque villages. Passing through Matatiele in the Eastern Cape, bordering on Kwa Zulu Natal before entering Lesotho via Qacha’s Nek border post.
Qacha's Nek is a district of Lesotho. Qacha's Nek is the capital of Camp Town and the only town in the district. In the south, Qacha's Nek borders the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, and it has a short border with KwaZulu-Natal Province in the Far East. Domestically, it borders Quthing District in the southwest, Mohale's Hoek District in the west, and Thaba-Tseka District in the northern direction.
Entering Lesotho and traveling through rural Lesotho villages, before turning right and crossing over the Orange River/ Senqu. The Orange River, South Africa's major river, rises in the Drakensberg in Lesotho, where it is known as the Senqu. From where the river leaves Lesotho, it flows westward for some 2200km to where it finally flows into the Atlantic Ocean at Alexander Bay.
Dams
The Gariep Dam, near Colesburg, is the main storage structure within the Orange River. From here the water is supplied in two directions, namely westward along the Orange River (via hydroelectric power generators) to the Vanderkloof Dam, and southward through the Orange-Fish Tunnel to the Eastern Cape.
The total Orange-Senqu River basin extends over four countries, Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, and South Africa, and covers an area of 1 000 000 km². 64.2% (642 000 km²) of the basin falls within South Africa, 24.5% (245 000 km²) in Namibia, 7.9% (79 000 km²) in Botswana and 3.4% (34 000 km²) in Lesotho. Maletsunyane Falls is a single cataract on a tributary of the Orange River in Lesotho, 75 miles (121 km). Maletsunyane Falls - 204 meters
Lunch at Semonkong. After lunch, view the spectacular Maletsunyane Waterfall. 2x Options either hiking or Pony Trekking to view the Maletsunyane waterfall both are 3 hours circular route!
Overnight: Lodge.
Lesotho- 3 Nights / 3 Days
Day 10: Departure - Breakfast- Included.
Depart after breakfast After a good breakfast at the lodge travel via Moitsupeli, turning left towards Koro-Koro. A scenic drive through a bushy landscape, small forests, and farmland dotted with picturesque villages. Along the road dense bushes and shrubs are used by locals for medical purposes, picturesque mountain landscapes, and rural settlements.
At the roadside basalt stone with hardened bubbles. Packed lunch provided for. Entering a very rural part of Lesotho a lot of interaction with the local population takes place. Our destination is situated in secluded woodland surrounded by beautiful countryside. Dinner at the lodge.
Overnight: Lodge.
Day 11: Breakfast-Included.
Departure from the lodge after breakfast and proceed to Ha Kome Caves situated near Teyateyaneng. At Ha Kome there is a remarkable village where cave dwellings have been carved out under towering rocks. The families still living there today are descendants of the original people who “built” the caves in the 19th century and the site is now a National Heritage Site.
The people living there now still live much as their forefathers did almost two centuries ago and those who have occupied the caves over the years have left a rich cultural history.
Gruesomely, this area was once home to cannibals and past generations of Basotho fled to the caves to hide from them. Parking at the top of the hill allows you to walk for about 20 minutes to reach the Ha Kome Visitors Centre where we will be given a guided tour of the caves and told something of the history and culture of the people.
Visit Thaba Bosiu, lunch on arrival, after lunch a guide will take us on tour and explain the history of Moshoeshoe the First and how he was able to conquer the Zulu King Shakas warriors. Well then be taken to a demonstration village and from a distance see the famous mountain Thaba Bosiu. Do an orientation tour of Maseru visit the curio shop and see how Tapestries are made! Also, those who collect stamps can go to the POST OFFICE and buy them!
Overnight: Guest Lodge.
Day 12: Breakfast -Included.
Depending on departure timing!
After breakfast do an orientation tour of Maseru, buying curious and stamps of Lesotho and viewing tapestries being made of Mohair and Angora wool. Viewing of the new Parliament building, lunch, and depart for Maseru airport at 14H00!
TOUR ENDS!