South Africa Tours City Tours and Day Tours

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Cape Town South Africa Tours

Gauteng South Africa Tours

Port Elizabeth South Africa Tours

Natal South Africa Tours

CAPE TOWN SOUTH AFRICA TOURS - OPTIONS

Whether you're a discerning businessman, thrill seeking adventurer or sports fanatic, the Cape offers you a rich variety of activities to excite the senses.  “Cape Towns Waterfront” is a tourist favourite!

Day tours in and around Cape Town:

• South Africa Tours Full day Classic Cape Peninsula Tour. From R510 pp sharing. Tour Hout Bay, optional cruise to Seal Island. Visit Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve for the highlight of your tour. The scenery en route to Cape Point, at the South Western tip of the reserve, is particularly lovely in spring when wildflowers carpet the landscape. Option to visit the Penguin Colony at Boulder’s Beach, home to some 700-jackass penguins. Tour Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens, a world famous garden of indigenous plants and regarded as one of the top seven botanical gardens in the world.
   

• South Africa Tours Full day Table Mountain & Classic Cape Peninsula Tour. From R560 pp sharing.  Travel to Table Mountain - the sandstone plateau that is approximately 3km wide. (Weather permitting) you’ll be transported to the top by cable car for unforgettable sweeping views of “the fairest Cape in the whole circumference of the world”. Enjoy visibility over a radius of approximately 70km and a view of Cape Town city below. Continue on the Classic Cape Peninsula Day Tour (as detailed above). Please note: Ticket for cableway is NOT included in the tour price as the mountain visit is weather permitting.
   

• South Africa Tours Full day Cape Winelands Tour. From R510 pp sharing.  A classic tour through spectacular vineyards and valleys and scenic country roads. Tour Franschhoek, first settled by the French Huguenots in 1688. Stop in Stellenbosch which has some of the best preserved historical buildings. Enjoy two wine tastings and the opportunity to purchase wines.
   

• South Africa Tours Half day Table Mountain, City & Waterfront Tour. From R340 pp sharing.  Sense the spirit of Cape Town and traces the history of the port from 1652. Includes scenic coastal tour through Clifton and Sea Point and a visit to the Houses of Parliament. Visit Table Mountain. Please note: Ticket for cableway is NOT included in the tour price as the mountain visit is weather permitting. The tour also includes a boat trip of the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront.

• South Africa Tours Full Day Great White Shark Cage Diving. From R1 300 pp sharing. Travel to Gansbaai; there enjoy light breakfast then proceed to Dyer Island. Surface view, snorkel, or scuba* cage dive to see this magnificent predator in its natural feeding ground. Lunch is included. NOTE: MINIMUM 2 PASSENGERS, *SCUBA DIVE CERTIFICATION REQUIRED, *WEATHER AND SEA CONDITIONS PERMITTING.

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GAUTENG SOUTH AFRICA TOURS - OPTIONS

Johannesburg is the major international gateway to South Africa and is a vibrant and dynamic city. An escorted tour to Soweto will offer a fascinating view into township life in South Africa. Other popular Johannesburg day tours include a combined tour to the glitz and glamour resort of Sun City with a game drive in the Pilanesberg Game Reserve, home to the big five, or a tour of Pretoria, known as the Jacaranda City.

Day tours in and around Johannesburg/Pretoria:

• South Africa Tours Half day Soweto Township Tour - Visit Mandela House and Hector Peterson Museum. From R450 pp sharing.  This tour introduces you to the sprawling metropolis of Soweto (South Western Township) situated on the outskirts of Johannesburg. This place offers you a glimpse into the turbulent past of South Africa - hostels, Freedom Square, the struggle for liberty. On tour you will drive past African merchants of traditional medicines, a typical four-roomed dwelling, an informal settlement, a crèche and an old-age home. Your tour will also include a full view of Soweto from the vicinity of Baragwanath Hospital.
   

• South Africa Tours Half day Apartheid Museum Tour. From R480 pp sharing.  Embark on a discovery of the racial segregation experienced by millions of South Africans a mere decade ago. Excellent displays on the Soweto up-rising, ANC in exile, petty apartheid, solitary confinement, anti-apartheid movements abroad, sport boycotts, etc.
   

• South Africa Tours Half day Johannesburg City Tour. R430  pp sharing.  Share in the vibrancy of this city by starting with a magnificent panoramic view from the 50th floor of the Carlton Centre - “the top of Africa”. Tour the northern suburbs and see where Nelson Mandela lives today. Pass through Hillbrow before reaching Museum Africa where the history and cultures of the South African “Rainbow Nation” are well represented (time permitting).
   

• South Africa Tours Half day Pretoria City Tour - Visit the Voortrekker Monument, Union Buildings and Church Square. From R430 pp sharing.  Experiencing the ‘Jacaranda City’ when it is wrapped in a purple haze is a must see. View the impressive Voortrekker Monument and stop at the Paul Kruger House Museum. You will also have the opportunity to experience the spectacular view of the city that the Union Buildings gives. Government Drive houses official government buildings and a host of embassies.
   

• South Africa Tours Half day Gold Reef City Tour - See gold being poured, visit a shaft under ground.  From R560 pp sharing.  Experience Johannesburg’s primary theme park and casino on this tour. Take a ride on a sightseeing train or enjoy one of the many other exhilarating rides Gold Reef City has to offer. You will also descend down a 220m Gold Mine shaft for a guided underground tour, watch a 12,5kg gold pour, visit the mine manager’s house and be entertained by the Siyagida Dancers.
   

• South Africa Tours Half day Lesedi Cultural Village Tour - Learn and experience some of Africa's cultures. From R750 pp sharing.  Experience African Culture at its best - a Zulu warrior dance combined with other ethnic traditional dances. See the colourful huts of the Ndebele tribe adjacent to those of the Zulu, Xhosa, Pedi and Sotho. Enjoy a pan-African feast with delicacies from north, east and southern Africa.
   

• Half day De Wildt Cheetah Centre Tour. From R620.00 per person sharing. The De Wildt Cheetah Centre was established in 1971 with the aim of breeding endangered species. This tour includes Cheetah, Wild Dog, Caracal, Cerval, African Wild Cat, Nyala, Crocodile and Vulture.
   

• South Africa Tours Half day Cullinan Diamond Mine Tour. From R400.00 per person sharing. To the east of Pretoria is the village of Cullinan where the world's largest Diamond was discovered in 1905. This great diamond weighed in at an amazing 3106 carats in the rough and was transformed by the Asscher Brothers in Amsterdam to the magnificent stones which grace the British Crown Jewels. A tour of the mine sheds some light on the process by which these most noble of the earth's stones were formed under great pressure and heat millions of years ago, and on the way in which man extracts them from the earth and shapes them into the desirable objects they become in the jewelry stores of the world.
   

• South Africa Tours Half day Sterkfontein Caves Tour - Where fossilised remains of ancient Human Apes were found. R515  pp sharing.  Many skulls and bones of ape-men including the famous cranium, Mrs. Ples, have been uncovered here. Evolution of humanity over the past 3,5 million years. Without doubt one of the world’s most important sites for human evolutionary studies and researches.
   

• South Africa Tours Full day Sun City & Pilanesberg Reserve Tour - Golfing and Water Paradise. From R850 pp sharing. Absorb the beauty of nature with the morning spent game viewing in the Pilanesberg Nature Reserve - a Big Five reserve. After the relaxing morning you will proceed to Sun City for an afternoon at leisure to sample the activities at “The Kingdom of Pleasure”. Enjoy the casino, wave and swimming pools and Lost City (for own account). Lunch excluded.

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PORT ELIZABETH SOUTH AFRICA TOURS - OPTIONS

The city is fondly referred to as “The Friendly City” and tourists who linger long enough to discover Port Elizabeth’s treasures soon encounter the refreshing and sincere hospitality for which the city earned her name. The Bay of Port Elizabeth, gateway to the Eastern Cape, is the perfect extension to the Garden Route, Settler Hinterland and the Sunshine Coast. Located on the south-eastern coast of Africa, this bustling seaport and enticing tourist destination is situated along the shores of Algoa Bay.

Day tours in and around Port Elizabeth:

• South Africa Tours Full day Addo Elephant Park Tour. R730 pp sharing.  Only an hour’s drive from Port Elizabeth you will find the beautiful Addo Elephant National Park, home to the densest elephant population in the world. Once in the reserve you will be taken on an approximate three hour game drive deep into the heart of the reserve. This allows for great opportunities for spotting elephant, buffalo, black rhino, zebra, jackal, bushbuck, kudu & other species of antelope. A casual lunch will also be enjoyed.
   

• South Africa Tours Half day Port Elizabeth City Tour. R380 pp sharing.  Your journey into the history of Port Elizabeth starts off with a drive along its beautiful beachfront. Thereafter we head to the city centre where we will visit the town hall, feather market hall, the old post office, the Prester John monument, Fort Frederick and the Donkin Reserve. We also stop over at Settlers Park for a brief walk around the gardens before we continue to the Horse Memorial (horses that died in the Anglo Boer War), our last stop of the tour before heading back.
   

• South Africa Tours Full day Private Game Reserve Tour. R1 300 pp sharing.  Travel to Shamwari or Pumba Private Game Reserve, malaria free reserves. Enjoy an open vehicle game drive in search of the "Big Five" and numerous species of antelope. A traditional lunch is served.

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NATAL SOUTH AFRICA TOURS - OPTIONS

Tour Durban’s newest world-class aquarium, visit a traditional Zulu ”kraal”, travel by 4x4 up South Africa’s highest mountain pass into the Kingdom of Lesotho or take a game drive in the Hluhluwe Game Reserve, home to the “Big Five”.

Day tours in and around Durban:

• South Africa Tours Full day Durban Highlights Tour.  R500  pp sharing.  Discover the highlights of the city of Durban, with the morning dedicated to showing you the cultural and historical contrasts of this city. The tour then heads off to Durban’s newest attraction, uShaka Marine World, for lunch (not included). Afterwards enjoy a guided tour of this world class facility which will comprise a saltwater aquarium with both indoor and outdoor displays and exhibits of South Africa’s unique Indian and Atlantic Ocean marine life. Also included is a wonderful Dolphin, Seal and Penguin show.
   

• South Africa Tours Full day Mountain Splendour Tour.  R1 050  pp sharing.  We make an early start, meandering through the rolling green hills of the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands and on to the little town of Himeville. Here we board a 4x4 vehicle, the only means by which to tackle the steep Sani Pass. At the top lies a remote border post - passports are essential - and beyond that, the Kingdom of Lesotho. We tour a traditional Sotho village and then enjoy lunch at the Sani Top Chalet, which has incredible views of the pass, before making our way back down the mountain.
   

• South Africa Tours Full day Shakaland Tour.  R820  pp sharing.  The A-Z of traditional Zulu life, packed into one exhilarating day tour. We make our way up the lush KwaZulu-Natal north coast into the tropical beauty of Zululand and the nKwalini Valley. Atop a hill, overlooking the uMhlatusi River, Shaka’s birthplace, stands the largest Zulu kraal in all of Zululand - today it is a very much alive museum. Here you’ll learn all about the culture and traditions of Zulus and witness the skill and artistry that goes into building their huts, making pottery, brewing beer and crafting bead-work and baskets. Sample the unusual beer, visit the isangoma (witchdoctor), enjoy the grace and energy of the Zulu dancers and then tuck into a delicious lunchtime feast.
   

• South Africa Tours Half day Durban City Tour. R250 pp sharing.  Get drawn into the rich cultural heritage of Durban. We explore the temples, churches, architecture and the sights and sounds of this unique city. Take a peek inside the magnificent Emanuel Cathedral or walk among the pavement hawkers selling everything from fruit to traditional African face masks. We leave the market and travel to the beautiful Botanic Gardens where we enjoy tea with its famous crumpets or scones (own account). Enjoy this oasis of lush greenery and tranquility in the heart of a bustling city. On our way back to our hotel we pass fine examples of old Durban homesteads.
   

• South Africa Tours Half day Ushaka Marine World Tour. R320 pp sharing.  Enjoy a full guided “edutainment” tour to Durban’s newest attraction: uShaka Marine World. The tour of this world class facility will comprise a saltwater aquarium with over 30 indoor and outdoor displays and exhibits of South Africa’s unique Indian and Atlantic Ocean marine life. Also included is a wonderful Dolphin, Seal and Penguin show in the largest dolphinarium in Africa.
   

• South Africa Tours Full day Hluhluwe Game Reserve Tour. R1 050  pp sharing.  Spend a day on safari in the magical Hluhluwe Imfolozi Game Reserve on the north coast of KwaZulu-Natal. This huge, well managed reserve is home to 84 species of game and an impressive variety of bird species. It is also home to the magnificent ‘Big Five’, along with cheetah, giraffe, zebra, blue wildebeest, spotted hyena and wild dog. The tour includes closed vehicle game drives throughout the day and lunch at Hilltop Camp, which has incredible views over the reserve.

Some of South Africa's interesting aquatic and avian species - terrapin, bronze-winged courser, hippo, yellow hornbill, water monitor

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