JOHANNESBURG TOUR – 4 Days (South Africa World Cup June - July 2010)

Watch a Game in Johannesburg!!!

Day 1: JOHANNESBURG
Overnight at 3 star hotel in Johannesburg–B&B

Soweto and Apartheid
Duration: 8 hours
Entrance included: Mandela House Museum & Hector Peterson Memorial, Apartheid Museum

Upon arrival at Johannesburg International Airport, you will be met by a local tour guide and transfer to your hotel for check in.Soweto (SOuth WEstern TOwnship), largest black residential area in South Africa, we see a fascinating “city within a city” essentially acts as a labour reservoir for the greater metropolitan area of the Witwatersrand. In many ways, the story of Soweto is the story of South Africa.

Our tour includes all the major points of interest, such as Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, Baragwanath taxi rank, Freedom Square, Hector Peterson Memorial and Nelson Mandela’s former home. We enjoy a lunch at a local restauarant in SOWETO and then finish off our tour with a visit the Apartheid museum.

Day 2: JOHANNESBURG
Overnight at 3 star hotel in Johannesburg–B&B

Cradle of Mankind (Sterkfontein)
Duration: 4 hours
Entrance included: Sterkfontein Caves & The Wonder Cave

The Sterkfontein Caves were discovered in 1896 by an Italian gold prospector and are now regarded as one of the world’s most important archeological sites. The caves lie in the Sterkfontein valley which, together with the nearby sites of Swartkrans, Drimolen and Kromdraai, make up the recently proclaimed World Heriatge Site known as the “Cradle of Mankind”.

Dr Robert Broom of the Transvaal Museum (now the Museum of Natural History) began excavations at the cave in 1936 and in 1947 discovered a well-preserved skull of a species of early man known as Plesianthropus Transvaalensis. This later became known as the famous “Mrs Ples”.

Day 3: JOHANNESBURG
Overnight at 3 star hotel in Johannesburg–B&B

Lesedi Cultural Experience
Duration: 5 hours
Entrance included: guided experience at Lesedi Cultural Village

Lesedi is a multi-cultural African village, set amongst the pristine Bushveld and rocky hills less than an hour’s drive from the city of Johannesburg. The village consists of a number of different homesteads or traditional villages: the Xhosa, with their beautiful thatched homes and red blankets; the Zulu with their fighting sticks and cosy beehive huts; the Pedi, with their courtyards and rythmic drums; and the conical straw hats and sturdy mountain ponies of the Basotho.

Guests experience a traditional welcome upon arrival, guided cultural walkabout through two of the four homesteads, traditional song and dance and traditional lunch.

Day 4:

Leisure morning.Transfer to the airport to connect your flight back home.

Johannesburg Tour - 04 Days

MONTH DATE
June 09 – 12
June 10 –13
June 16 –19
June 21 –24
June 26 –29
July 09 – 12
July 10 – 13

The safari is starting and finishing in Johannesburg, South Africa.