15 NIGHTS • 5000km
Starting in Pretoria, descend the spectacular escarpment to the world-famous Kruger Park for a game drive. Explore the Kingdom of eSwatini followed by a game drive in Hluhluwe wildlife reserve and a tour of Durban and its botanical gardens. Traverse the Valley of a Thousand Hills and the imposing Drakensberg Mountains to visit the 1870s mining village of Kimberley, centre of one of the world’s notorious diamond rushes. Continue through the semi-desert region of the Karoo to Upington and the Fish River Canyon, second in size to the Grand Canyon. Cross the untamed beauty of the Kalahari Desert to see the Quiver trees at Garas Park, home to roughly 300 specimens of the Aloe dichotomy. Take a short flight to Sossusvlei for a lodge stay surrounded by the dramatic dunes of the Namib-Naukluft Park. Enjoy desert drives, a bush dinner and breakfast near Deadvlei where camel-thorn trees contrast against the white-clay pan floor. Visit Namibia’s lively capital, Windhoek, and a cheetah conservation project before overnighting in the game-rich Etosha National Park. Leave the vast stillness of the Namib Desert for the wild Atlantic coast and journey’s end, Walvis Bay.
PRETORIA-WALVIS BAY ITINERARY >
- Cheetah conservation project visit
- Deadvlei visit
- Drakensberg Mountains
- Durban
- Durban Botanic Gardens tour
- Etosha game drives and overnight stay
- Fish River Canyon visit
- See the quiver trees at Garas Park
- Traverse the edge of the Kalahari Basin
- Traverse the Karoo
- Kimberley Diamond Mine Museum tour
- Kruger Park game drive
- Mantenga Cultural Village visit
- Traverse the Namib Desert
- Pretoria
- Sossusvlei game drives and overnight stay
- View Star Dune 45
- Traverse eSwatini
- Swazi Candles visit
- Visit the Trans-Namib Museum
- Upington walking tour (optional)
- Walvis Bay
- Windhoek tour
