Victoria Falls & South Africa

Day 01

Reach Mumbai International airport in time for your check in for the Kenya Airways flight to Livingstone via Nairobi.

Day 02

On arrival in Nairobi take the connecting flight to Livingstone. On reaching Livingstone at 1510, pick up and transfer to Zambezi Sun where you stay on bed and breakfast basis. Dinner on your own.

Day 03

After breakfast you have the guided walking tour of the falls from Zambian side. Return to the hotel and proceed for helicopter ride. Evening you have the sunset cruise on Zambezi. Stay in Zambezi Sun on bed and breakfast basis.

Day 04

Take flight SA 49 from Livingstone at 1300and reach Johannesburg at 1440. After immigration proceed to domestic terminal for flight MN 131 departing at 1805& reaching Cape Town at 2015.

Pick up & transfer to hotel for overnight stay. Dinner on your own.

Overnight:  Strand Tower or similar on bed and breakfast basis

Day 05

After breakfast start for full day tour visiting the beautiful city of Cape Town.

Start with visit of the famous Botanical Garden at Kirstenbosch. Then to Hout bay – once a fishing community, now a popular residential area with spectacular ocean view. From here board onto a cruise to Seal Island and stroll along mariners wharf.

Then proceed to visit the enchanting African (Jackass) penguin colony at Boulders Beach.

Drive along the Cape Peninsula to the Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve, which extends along 40km of coastline and leads to Cape Point, where some say the oceans meet. According to Sir Francis Drake “the fairest cape that we saw in the whole circumference of the globe”. Ascend to the point by funicular.

Overnight:  Strand Tower  on bed and breakfast basis. Lunch and dinner on your own.

Day 06

After breakfast visit to Table Mountain and then proceed to Stellenbosch. It is one of the most beautiful towns of South Africa and is also very famous for its award winning wines. It is the second-oldest and undoubtedly the most scenically attractive and historically preserved town in southern Africa.

You will tour through the winelands and visit one of the wine estates to see the process of wine making and tasting a few of them.

Overnight: Basse Provence on Bed & Breakfast Basis. Lunch and dinner on your own

Day 07

Take early breakfast & start for Oudtshoorn via the scenic town of Worcester. The towns of Oudtshoorn and De Rust are in the Klein Karoo between the Swartberg and Outeniqua mountains. Oudtshoorn is the ostrich capital of the world.

You will visit the ostrich farm where you learn everything of the world’s biggest bird. You can also ride on an ostrich, shop from the curios and even taste its meat. Overnight:  De Denne Guest House on Bed, Breakfast & Dinner basis.

Day 08

After breakfast visit the famous Cango Caves, a series of magnificent, glittering limestone caverns fashioned over millennia beneath the foothills of the Swartberg Range.

Proceed to Swarberg Pass from Oudtshoorn; which is a scenic drive through the Cango Valley. Visit Prince Albert; “The nothingness, the wide open spaces and the deafening stillness… balm for the soul at sunset.” … this is the magic of Prince Albert at the gateway to the Great Cango.

Later travel to Meiringspoort. The poort bears a tough history of floods and landslides amongst incredible hardships, yet engineers and road builders mastered the art of building a magnificent road through this awe-inspiring poort. Overnight:  De Denne Guest House on Bed, Breakfast & Dinner basis

Day 09

Travel to Mossel Bay, where the Portuguese navigator, Bartholomew Diaz first set foot on the southern tip of South Africa. Visit the famous Post Office Tree Museum. This is the first post office in the world.

Continue on to Knysna, travelling over the Outeniqua pass via George – the capital of the Garden Route. Knysna is a charming holiday town surrounded by forest, lakes, mountains and sea. Take ferry for a sunset cruise on the Knysna lagoon and meet the famous Knysna heads. Overnight:  Knysna Log Inn on Bed & Breakfast Basis

Day 10

After breakfast transfer to George airport for your flight MN 904 leaving George at 0900 flight reaches Johannesburg at 1100.

On reaching Johannesburg, those going back to India will have a short Gold Reef tour before transfer to airport for flight back home. Take KQ 765 departing at 0150on 12 June and reaching Nairobi at 0655. Take connecting flight KQ 210 at 0750 from Nairobi to Mumbai reaching at

1650

Sun City extension –

Day 10 – Saturday – 11 June 2016

On arriving in Johannesburg from George, transfer to Sun City. Check in at Cabanas and stay on bed and breakfast basis. Dinner on your own.

Stay at Sun City in Cabanas

Day 11

Morning safari in Pilanesburg and rest of the day at leisure in Sun City.

Day 12

Morning at leisure & then transfer to Johannesburg airport for flight KQ 765 leaving on 14 June at 0150 and reaching Nairobi at 0655; take connecting flight KQ 210 leaving at 0750 and reaching at 1650 in Mumbai.