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Tailor-Made SOUTHERN AFRICA Stay updated INNOVATIVE AND AUTHENTIC HOLIDAYS ON WWW.SPRINGBOKATLAS.COM Our Tailor-Made travel ideas show a sample of the selection of innovative, authentic and competitively priced holidays we can tailor-make to your requirements. Visit our website for more details on these sample travel ideas as well as a range of other Southern African travel options for tailor-made individual or group travel. Key information available online for Tailor-Made Other useful information online Travel ideas: • Why Tailor-Made Travel • Tour Summary: evocative description summary • Digi- Brochures • Highlights: key highlights or unique selling points • Destination Highlights • Overview: notes, dates, rates, includes and excludes • About Us • Detailed itinerary: day-by-day itinerary • Contact Us • Map & attractions: fully interactive map with tour route & overnight locations • Accommodation: descriptions & images www.springbokatlas.com For more details on tailor-made travel and more travel ideas, please visit our website regularly. Contents SOUTH AFRICA ZAMBIA 9 days Cape Cultivars & Wildlife Wonders 3 3 days Zambezi River Safari 30 7 days Classic Cape Town & Safari 3 4 days Exploring Livingstone 30 10 days Timeless South Africa 5 9 days KwaZulu-Natal Insights 5 ZIMBABWE 4 days Lake Kariba Fly-In 31 NAMIBIA 4 days Mana Pools Fly-In 31 9 days Namibia Southern Journey 7 11 days Best of Namibia 7 MOZAMBIQUE 9 days Namibia Desert Encounter 9 3 days Exploring Maputo 32 7 days Unforgettable Namibia 9 4 days Wild Niassa Fly-In 32 4 days Untamed Gorongosa 33 BOTSWANA 3 days Discover Ibo Island 33 8 days Essential Botswana 11 7 days Okavango Delta Discovery 11 FACT SHEETS 7 days Wild Botswana Adventure 13 9 days Cape Cultivars & Wildlife Wonders 34 5 days Central Kalahari & Salt Pans 13 7 days Classic Cape Town & Safari 34 10 days Timeless South Africa 34 ZAMBIA 9 days KwaZulu-Natal Insights 35 9 days Discover Zambia 15 9 days Namibia Southern Journey 35 7 days South Luangwa Walking Safari 15 11 days Best of Namibia 35 9 days Namibia Desert Encounter 36 ZIMBABWE 7 days Unforgettable Namibia 36 6 days Vic Falls & Hwange Splendour 17 8 days Essential Botswana 36 10 days Zimbabwe Waterways & Zambia Wilderness 17 7 days Okavango Delta Discovery 36 7 days Wild Botswana Adventure 37 MOZAMBIQUE 5 days Central Kalahari & Salt Pans 37 7 days Quirimbas Island Escape 19 9 days Discover Zambia 37 11 days Coast & Safari Hideaway 19 7 days South Luangwa Walking Safari 37 12 days Sensational Sea & Safari 21 6 days Vic Falls & Hwange Splendour 38 15 days Southern Africa Delight 21 10 days Zimbabwe Waterways & Zambia Wilderness 38 7 days Quirimbas Island Escape 38 SOUTHERN AFRICA 11 days Coast & Safari Hideaway 38 13 days Southern Africa Kaleidoscope 23 12 days Sensational Sea & Safari 39 13 days Explore Wild Southern Africa 23 15 days Southern Africa Delight 39 13 days Southern Africa Kaleidoscope 40 EXTEND THE EXPERIENCE 13 days Explore Wild Southern Africa 40 2 days Blue Train Classic 41 SOUTH AFRICA 3 days Rovos Rail Sojourn 41 2 days Blue Train Classic 24 4 days Sun City Getaway 41 3 days Rovos Rail Sojourn 24 2 days Johannesburg Lesedi Cultural Getaway 41 4 days Sun City Getaway 25 3 days Hermanus Getaway 42 2 days Johannesburg Lesedi Cultural Getaway 25 3 days Kruger Park Safari Getaway 42 3 days Hermanus Getaway 26 4 days Skeleton Coast Flying Safari 42 3 days Kruger Park Safari Getaway 26 3 days World's Fastest Cats Getaway 42 3 days Sossusvlei Fly-In 42 NAMIBIA 3 days Etosha Fly-In Safari 43 4 days Skeleton Coast Flying Safari 27 4 days Magical Makgadikgadi Fly-In 43 3 days World's Fastest Cats Getaway 27 4 days Chobe Wildlife Safari 43 3 days Sossusvlei Fly-In 28 3 days Zambezi River Safari 43 3 days Etosha Fly-In Safari 28 4 days Exploring Livingstone 43 4 days Lake Kariba Fly-In 43 BOTSWANA 4 days Mana Pools Fly-In 44 4 days Magical Makgadikgadi Fly-in Safari 29 3 days Exploring Maputo 44 4 days Chobe Wildlife Safari 29 4 days Wild Niassa Fly-In 44 4 days Untamed Gorongosa 44 3 days Discover Ibo Island 44 1 SOUTH AFRICA 2 Kruger Limpopo National Park animals of28speciesintotheMadikwe Operation Phoenix,oneofthelargest world, hasreleasedmorethan8,000 game translocationexercisesinthe Game Reservesinceitsinceptionin Game Drives 1991. OperationPhoenixwas Madikwe GameReserve, Game Drives God’s Window 3 Sabi Sabi Operation Phoenix Hazyview completed in1997. Madikwe you know? 3 Gauteng Nelspruit Did Johannesburg Mbabane North West Mpumalanga SWAZILAND Free State KwaZulu-Natal LESOTHO Northern Cape Durban SOUTH AFRICA Eastern Cape Western Cape Day Excursions 2 Wine Tasting Cape Town Franschhoek Port Elizabeth 3 Stellenbosch 3 Vergelegen Wine Estate Aerial Cableway, Table Mountain AFRICA SOUTH Cape Cultivars & Wildlife Classic Cape Town & Safari Wonders è CAPE TOWN - JOHANNESBURG - MADIKWE GAME RESERVE - JOHANNESBURG è CAPE TOWN - FRANSCHHOEK - SABI SANDS - JOHANNESBURG 7 Days/6 Nights 9 Days/8 Nights Visit Africa’s Mother City & Experience a Luxury Safari Experience Africa’s Most Beautiful City & Best Wildlife This 7 day self-drive holiday is an excellent blend of city and safari On this 9 day Guided Holiday you will take in the finest highlights that enables you to experience the top attractions that Cape that cosmopolitan Cape Town and its scenic Winelands has to Town has to offer, and enjoy an unforgettable luxury safari in the offer, before flying into Kruger Mpumalanga International Airport malaria-free, Big 5 Madikwe Game Reserve. and embarking on an unforgettable safari in a private reserve. Highlights Highlights • Explore Cape Town with its many diverse attractions – beautiful • Visit Cape Town’s iconic attractions including Table Mountain, and mountains and beaches, trendy coffee shops and fine restaurants, tour the spectacular Cape Peninsula with its highlights such as fascinating historical sites and contemporary cultures Chapman’s Peak Drive and Cape Point Nature Reserve • Stay at a private luxury safari lodge in the Madikwe Game Reserve, • Enjoy the breath-taking scenery of the historic wine-making valley one of South Africa’s largest wildlife conservancies and home to of Franschhoek, the quaint village known as South Africa’s ‘Culinary around 300 bird species and 66 mammal species including Africa’s Capital’ and wine tasting at the finest boutique estates famous Big 5 and the endangered African Wild Dog • Experience sensational game viewing on a luxury private safari in Quick Facts the pristine wilderness of the Sabi Sand Reserve • DEPARTS – Daily (Subject to availability) Quick Facts • DURATION – 7 days/6 nights • DEPARTS – Daily (Subject to availability) • INCLUDES – Transfers as specified, 6 nights accommodation, • DURATION – 9 days/8 nights 7 days car rental, 2 game activities daily at the lodge • INCLUDES – Transfers as specified, 8 nights accommodation, tours • EXCLUDES – Flight from Cape Town to Johannesburg, Madikwe as specified, 1 wine tasting, 2 game activities daily at the lodge, park Game Reserve entrance fees, meals other than specified, drinks at fees safari lodge, gratuities, porterage, activities other than specified, • EXCLUDES – Flight from Cape Town to Nelspruit, meals other visa fees, travel insurance than specified, premium brand drinks at safari lodges, gratuities, • NOTE – Subject to minimum 2 guests porterage, activities other than specified, visa fees, travel insurance • NOTE – Subject to minimum 2 guests. Light aircraft transfer – weather permitting. Luggage restrictions apply 3 SOUTH AFRICA 4 Kruger Limpopo National Park Blyde River Canyon renowned foritshistoric,blood-soaked battles leadbylegendarymensuchas Gandhi andGeneralLouisBotha.The Shaka, WinstonChurchill,Mahatma God’s Window scattered alongtherockyoutcrops forts andsmallgraveyardsthatlie This regionoftheZuluKingdomis Sabi Sabi are thesolesurvivorsofthese Hazyview KwaZulu-Natal famous battles. Gauteng Battlefi elds Battlefi you know? Johannesburg Did Mbabane Mpumalanga North West SWAZILAND Game Drives Phinda Game Reserve 3 Hluhluwe Spioenkop 3 Battlefields Tour Maputaland Free State 2 KwaZulu-Natal Coastal Reserve Water Activities, Cultural Experience LESOTHO Northern Cape Durban SOUTH AFRICA Eastern Cape Western Cape Klein Oudtshoorn Karoo Tsitsikamma Route 2 Game Drives 62 Knysna Mountains Cape Town Outeniqua Pass 2 Montagu 2 Port Elizabeth 3 Featherbed Nature Reserve Isandlwana AFRICA SOUTH Timeless South Africa KwaZulu-Natal Insights è CAPE TOWN - OUDTSHOORN - KNYSNA - KARIEGA GAME RESERVE - PORT è DURBAN - NATAL BATTLEFIELDS - PHINDA GAME RESERVE - ELIZABETH MAPUTALAND COASTAL FOREST RESERVE - DURBAN 10 Days/9 Nights 9 Days/8 Nights All the Beauty of Cape Town, the Garden Route and the Evocative Battlefields, African Wilderness & Unspoiled African Wilderness Sub-Tropical Beaches On this 10 day self-drive holiday you will enjoy the diversity of This 9 day self-drive holiday starts at the historic Battlefields, Cape Town before setting off on a relaxing journey through the followed by an easy drive to one of South Africa’s foremost private Garden Route finishing off in style with a luxurious stay in the luxury game reserves and finishing off with a stay in the pristine malaria-free Kariega Game Reserve. Maputaland Coastal Forest Reserve. Highlights Highlights • Experience Africa’s most beautiful city with its beautiful mountains · Breath-taking mountain scenery and the visit to the quiet summit and beaches, trendy coffee shops and fine restaurants, fascinating of Spioenkop, reliving the chilling chronicle of one of the most historical
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