“Once the Kalahari sand gets in your shoes – you will be back!”

Proposed Itinerary: Limit group to 60 to enable staying together. Distance to be covered about 850 km.

Cost of accommodation and food approx. R6000 (SAGTA Members) and R6500 (non-SAGTA Members)

27 June 2018 Arrive in afternoon and Register at CBC (meal included)

Conference officially starts with Meal, school tour and Ghost Tour Kimberley Night 1

28 /6/2018 D2 [50 km] Kimberley Night 2

McGregor Museum (2hrs), Wildebeestkuil (I,5hrs), Glacial pavement (1 hr) [activity-rubbings of petroglyphs], Big Hole sights & museum (2,5hrs) – Mapwork

29 /6/2018 D3 [300km] Warrenton, Jan Kempdorp, Hartswater, Buxton *, Reivilo,{sand road} Lykso, Kuruman (Red Sands) Night 3

Flamingoes on the way out (10 mins), Irrigation system (1,5 hr)- avenue of trees – pecans, olive oil & wine (1,5hrs) – ‘fossil sight’ of Taung skull (1hr) –

Pools (1hr) & Kuruman eye (1 hr);

30/6/2018 D4 [150km] Kuruman*, Hotazel, Sishen (Dingleton) Kathu Night 4

Moffat mission station (1,5 hrs)– manganese mine (3 hrs) – solar Power station (1,5 hrs)

1/7/2018 D5 [80km] Kathu, Sishen, Postmasburg, {sand road} Witsand Night 5

Iron ore mine (3 hrs)& rail head (1hr), Sand dunes (play time) pm [Activity - sand art] – geology – astronomy (2 hrs)

2/7/2018 D6 [300km] {sand road} Griekwastad, Campbell, {sand road} Douglas* , Kimberley

Kimberley Night 6

Rural regeneration, Earth Treasures (cash only), hotel, mission station museum (2,5hrs) – river confluence (2 hrs) – Magersfontein (1 hr){sand road}– air museum (1hr).

Send an email of request for a spot and for an invoice to Amanda Louw ([email protected]) and copy Tess Uren ([email protected]). Then only will an Invoice be issued, which will enable schools to make payments into the account below. Deposit of R3000 into SOUTHERN AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY TEACHERS’ ASSOCIATION (SAGTA) STANDARD BANK: ACCOUNT NUMBER 072370904 HELDERBERG BRANCH CODE 03-30-12 SWIFT CODE SBZAZAJJ REFERENCE: SC2018 followed by your cell phone number. Please send your proof of payment to: [email protected] and copy Tess ([email protected]) - with an indication of your cellular phone number. By the 31 October 2017. Balance due by March 30 2018.