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The Great African Trail : 11 weeks
Nairobi to Johannesburg via Cape Town
Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Malawi, Zambia, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa
Special tOUR cost for October 2010 to February 2011 departures - £1,020
Tour Cost: GBP 1150
Plus Local Payment: GBP 750 (What's this?)
Included
Camping, cooking equipment tents and sleeping mats. Transport on safari truck or van, Two meals per day while travelling, Camping fees, Rift Valley, Lake Victoria, Kampala, Equator crossing, Lake Bunyonyi, Owen Falls & Bujagali Falls on the River Nile, Lake Baringo, Lake Nakuru National Park, Lake Naivasha, Masai Mara National Reserve, Dar es Salaam on the Indian Ocean coast, Mikumi National Park, Lake Malawi, Kande Beach resort, Victoria Falls, Game drive in Chobe National Park, Kalahari Desert, Maun, Caprivi Strip, Etosha Pan National Park, Cheetah Farm, Cape Cross Seal Colony Swakopmund, Sossusvlei sand dunes, Namib Naukluft Park in the Namib Desert, Fish River Canyon, Orange River, Citrusdal, Cedarburg, Stellenbosch, Cape Town, Table Mountain, Great KarooNot Included
Visas, Personal Insurance, Flights Airport Taxes & Transfers, Ferry to Zanzibar & other optional excursions, meals out, lunches and meals taken while in towns for a few days; Dar, Zanzibar, Victoria Falls, Swakopmund, Cape Town, JohannesburgOptional Excursions
Rafting on the Nile’s grade 5 rapids, Mountain Gorillas, Volunteer for the local community education project, Hell's Gate National Park, Mount Longonot volcano, Green Crater Lake, Elsamere, Nairobi - National Museum, Karen Blixen's, Langata Giraffe Centre, Serengeti Park & Ngorongoro Crater, Zanzibar Island, South Luangwa National Park, Victoria Falls white water rafting, Okavango Delta, Kimberley the Big Hole, Johannesburg SOWETO tour and gold mineNote - On this trip we see the gorillas in either Uganda, Rwanda or D.R. Congo.
Tour summary
Week 1
Kenya, Rift Valley scenic lookout at 8,000 feet high. Uganda Lake Victoria – Kampala the equator. Virunga Mountains - trek to Mountain Gorillas Lake
Week 2
Owen Falls Dam & Jinja on Lake Victoria Bujagali Falls on the Nile River - white water rafting. Kenya, Lake Nakuru - millions of pink flamingoes
Week 3
Lake Naivasha - hippos graze and black and white Colobus monkeys. Hell's Gate Park. Masai Mara – wildlife, the big five. Nairobi with good restaurants night out.
Week 4
Tanzaniawe arrive in Arusha. Serengeti & Ngorongoro side trip- two nights in the parks. Dar es Salaam on the Indian Ocean
Week 5
Dar es Salaam - ferry to Zanzibar Island. South throughTanzania we pass through Mikumi Park and on to Malawi with it beautiful lake
Week 6
Lake Malawi – Kande beach resort, sandy beaches, swimming and snorkeling, water-skiing, horse riding Malawi chairs. Zambia - South Luangwa National Park
Week 7
Zambia’s capital Lusaka & Victoria Falls - Zambezi River plunges 100 metres down a mile wide chasm lots of adventure activities
Week 8
Botswana and the Kalahari Desert. Maun on the Okavango Delta, Mokoro trip in a dugout canoe through the waterways. Namibia, Kavango River on the Caprivi Strip
Week 9
Etosha Pan National Park - game viewing in the evenings by floodlit water holes. Kamanjab Cheetah Farm. Cape Cross Seal Reserve. Swakopmund seaside resort
Week 10
Namib Desert -300 metre high sand dunes. Fish River Canyon. South African border with Orange River. Stellenbosch - wine tour. Cape Town at the foot of Table Mountain.
Week 11
Leaving Cape Town we cross the Great Karoo heartland and the Orange River. The Big Hole in Kimberley to J’burg - Soweto and gold mines.