Roy Harris - Explore South Africa’s best in nine days with Melinda, while making a meaningful impact through USA4RSA Foundation!

Welcome to South Africa.   On arriving in Cape Town international Airport from your international flight,  you will be met by your English speaking guide that will transfer you to the hotel.   On route to the hotel you will be doing an orientation tour of Cape Town.   This is dependent on your international flight arrival time.   

Depending on the flight arrival, freshen up.   

Welcome dinner will be at a local restaurant in the V&A Waterfront to experience your first night on African shores.  

After breakfast,  your first day in Cape Town starts with a morning city tour where you will walk the streets of our mother city “Cape Town" and visit places such as the Company Gardens, District 6 and the Bo-Kaap.  These places combine a sense  of diverse identities and shows the distinctiveness and unique character of  this area.  It delves into history and allows you to walk away with a better picture of the past and the future.  

Visiting Table Mountain with its picturesque views, combined with its fauna and flora is a spectacle to behold. Table Mountain is one of the seven natural wonders of the world. 

Enjoy dinner at The Gold Restaurant with an interactive djembe drumming session.  

After this mornings breakfast,  you will start an life changing journey with Uthando Local Township Touring.

The first activity of the day is taking part in a township tour.  The township tour will include visiting some local houses and hearing the stories from the community.   We will also be visiting a local "watering hole" Bar for a drink.  This bar is called a "shebeen".  

Lunch will be enjoyed at CAB Conference Centre that is one of Roy’s projects in South Africa.   With this project Roy and the foundation have created a sustainable of local jobs in the area.     

Afternoon: 

We will be visiting the children's home that Roy started and where he is still very actively involved.  You will be interacting  with the children.   In many  ways this will be the part of the journey you will be mostly impacted by.

Note:   Please speek with Roy about what you can bring to impact the kids with your visit.   This is not just a visit but a life changing opportunity. 

Dinner is for your own account tonight.   Explore the area and the fantastic eating options availble.   Highly recomend visiting the V&A Food market.    

After breakfast,  enjoy a full day Cape Point and Peninsula Tour visiting the Cape Point Nature reserve  and experiencing the funicular.  

Other sites that you will visit on this day includes: 

• Simons Town
• Boulders Beach
• Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens

After enjoying a full day of beautiful sites and sounds,  the evening is at leisure. 

After breakfast,  check-out and transfer to Cape Town International airport for your flight to Johannesburg. 

When you arrive in Johannesburg,  you will be met by an English speaking guide who will accompany you on an afternoon Soweto Township Tour - PM

A Soweto afternoon Tours takes in the highlights of this iconic township including Nelson Mandela’s former home and the Hector Pieterson museum (he was one of the school children who was shot in the 1976 Soweto Uprising)

You will get close to Soweto Culture, meeting the people, trying local foods and maybe even some Omqombothi (our traditional beer) at a shebeen.

This tour is one of a kind, the smell of pavement cooked meals and the buzz in the streets of people going about their daily chores. Come and experience township life, the humanity, hospitality and warmth of the people, the "Ubuntu" as it is known in South Africa.

Enjoy your evening at leisure at the Southern Sun St.  Katherine Street hotel 

This morning,  after breakfast,  check-out and transfer to Little Africa Safari lodge.   +- 4 hour drive.  

A TYPICAL DAY AT LITTLE AFRICA

WAKE UP:

A typical day in the bush starts off at around 5:30 am (depending on the time of year) with a wakeup call by your ranger after which follows early morning tea/coffee before you set off on your game adventure for the day.

MORNING GAME DRIVE:

An informative and professional game drive with the excitement of tracking down the untamed game is interrupted by a stop-over in the bush for tea or coffee with a light snack.  The adventure continues and you return back to camp at around 9:00 am to freshen up. This is followed by a sumptuous brunch with a choice of continental and hot breakfast.

BRUNCH:

Following brunch the possibility of a bush walk lures the more adventurous or young at heart offering unexpected insight and knowledge of the eco-system.  Learn about the fauna & flora unique to the area.

​LEISURE TIME:

You then have time to rest or relax at the pool, browse our curio shop, visit one of our other local attractions or relax around the lodge, enjoying the sounds and smells unique to the African bushveld.  You are most likely to encounter wild animals across the riverbed and around the lodge.

LUNCH & AFTERNOON GAME DRIVE:

Afternoon lunch is an elegant affair served at around 3:00pm with a selection of salty and sweet treats.  Following directly thereafter you are off to an afternoon & evening game drive adventure with again a stop-over in the bush for sundowners watching the splendour of the African sun setting over the mountains. Drinks are accompanied by snacks and some South African specialties.

​DINNER:

You return after dark to be welcomed with a sherry at the lodge at around 7:30 pm to freshen up for the evening’s events. We will then meet before dinner for a drink at the bar or to select your wine from our wide selection to accompany your dinner.

Dinner is a three course affair prepared by our in-house chef with fresh ingredients.  Dinner is served at various settings.  Guests are welcome to request special arrangements/settings for dinner to celebrate different occasions, for example, engagements, anniversaries or birthdays.

You will retire to your bedroom prepared for the evening. Our staff are renowned for their pampering of guests who almost always depart as friends with a tear in their eyes.

Overnight at Little Africa Safari Lodge for 2 nights. 

After your morning game drive and breakfast,  check-out and transfer to Stille Woning where you will overnight for 1 night. En-route enjoy the beautiful Panorama route. 

One of the country's most scenic drives, the Panorama Route, explores the Mpumalanga highlands, or the north-eastern section of the Great Escarpment of the Drakensberg. In these rugged mountains the plateau comes to an abrupt and dramatic halt, falling steeply away into the Lowveld accompanied by incredible views out over the grasslands of Africa.

To describe the natural attractions with the written word is difficult, but people recount being able to 'touch the clouds' whilst others have called the route the 'most beautiful place in the world'.

The Panorama Route's popularity has much to do with its proximity to the Kruger National Park. It is often part and parcel of any organised trip to the game reserve. But it is also favoured for the access it provides to one of the province's major scenic draw cards, the Blyde River Canyon. The Blyde River Canyon is one of the largest canyons on earth, and increasingly popular with overseas visitors. 

Lunch at the very popular Harrie's Pancakes in Graskop 

Enjoy dinner at Stille Woning in the boma where you have the chance to regroup and remember of all the highlights of your trip to South Africa

This morning,  after breakfast,  check out and transfer to Johannesburg International airport for your flight. 

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“South Africa gives me a perspective of what’s real and what’s not real. So I go back to South Africa to both lose myself and gain awareness of myself. Every time I go back, it doesn’t take long for me to get caught into a very different thing. A very different sense of myself” Dave Matthews