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Cop17 Tour Brochure COP 17 TOUR INFORMATION SOUTH AFRICA TOUR PACKAGES SOUTH AFRICA These tours are offered at a cost with different packages available. SOWETO HALF DAY TOUR: R690pp FULL DAY WITH LUNCH: R895pp Soweto is a symbol of the New South Africa, caught between old squatter misery and new prosperity, squalor and an upbeat lifestyle, it’s a vibrant city which still openly bears the scars of the Apartheid past and yet shows what’s possible in the New South Africa. This tour is innovative and highly diverse with customised experiences allowing you the opportunity to touch South Africa. TOUR INCLUDES: Return Hotel Transfer. Entrance fees to Hector Pieterson Museum and Mandela Museum. Visit an informal settlement and photographic restaurant. Walk through the Regina Mundi Church. CONTINUED… SOWETO HALF DAY TOUR: R690pp FULL DAY WITH LUNCH: R895pp TOUR INCLUDES (CONTINUED): - Drive along Vilakazi Street. - Visit Freedom Square and Freedom Charter Memorial. - See the homes of Nobel peace prize winner Archbishop Emeritus. - Desmond Tutu and Winnie Madikizela- Mandela. - Visit a local shebeen and taste a beer drunk by the people of Soweto if your older than 18 years. Learn to make your own Amagwinya (Fat Cakes) from Mum B’s kitchen Bottled water. SOWETO BICYCLE AND BUS TOUR: R900 PER PERSON TOUR INCLUDES: - Return Hotel Transfer. - Entrapast Soccer City. - Visit Meadowlands. - Light Lunch & Bottled Water. - Entrance fee to Hector Pieterson Museum. - Soweto Bicycle Tour: 1-1.5 Hours. - Visit the Mzimhlope Hostel. - Ride along Vilakazi Street to Mandela House Museum. - Nobel Peace Prize winner Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu. CONTINUED… SOWETO BICYCLE AND BUS TOUR: R900 PER PERSON TOUR INCLUDES (CONTINUED): - Walk through the Regina Mundi Church. - Visit Walter Sisulu Freedom Square and Freedom Charter Memorial. - Ride along Vilakazi Street. - Visit a local shebeen and taste beer drunk by the people of Soweto. SOWETO AND APARTHEID MUSEUM TOUR: R900 PER PERSON TOUR INCLUDES: - Return Hotel Transfer. - Entrance fees to the Hector Pieterson Museum and Apartheid Museum. - Visit an informal settlement. - Stop at Mandela House Museum (entrance optional extra). - Drive past Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital. - Walk through the Regina Mundi Church. - Drive past Baragwanath Taxi Rank. - Drive past Maponya Shopping Mall. CONTINUED… SOWETO AND APARTHEID MUSEUM TOUR: R900 PER PERSON TOUR INCLUDES (CONTINUED)… - Visit Freedom Square and Freedom Charter Memorial. - Drive along Vilakazi Street. - Buffet Lunch at a Restaurant in Vilakazi street So (excluding beverages). - See the homes of Nobel peace prize winner Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu and Winnie Madikizela- Mandela - Drive past Soccer City Stadium. - Bottled water. CITY SIGHT SEEING,CON HILL ,& APARTHEID MUSEUM TOUR: R720 per person Explore Johannesburg at your own pace. Hop off and on at any of the City’s stops with your ticket. TOUR INCLUDES: - Transfer to and from Hotel to Red Bus station. - Commentary in multiple languages. VARIOUS STOPS INCLUDING: Newtown, Constitution Hill, Gold Reef City, Mining District Walk, Origins Centre at Wits Carlton Centre, Gandhi Square, James Hall Transport Museum, Cross Over Nelson Mandela Suspension Bridge, Entrance to the Apartheid Museum, with Bottled Water. NEIGHBOURGOODS MARKET & ARTS ON MAIN TOUR R690 PER PERSON. Maboneng, meaning ‘Place of Light’, is an urban neighbourhood on the east side of Johannesburg CBD. Maboneng is home to several independent retail, restaurants and entertainment venues as well as loft apartments, offices, hotel, a museum and creative factory spaces and Art Studios in an urban landscape. NEIGHBOURGOODS MARKET & ARTS ON MAIN TOUR R690 PER PERSON. Neighbourgoods Market Housed in a modernist building that has a spectacular 15-story wall mural by the famed artist Eduardo Villa, the market is as much a source for farm fresh foods and specialty goods as it is a meeting point to enjoy community, swop ideas and stories, and be inspired by the energy that makes Joburg. The market is opened every Saturday. NEIGHBOURGOODS MARKET & ARTS ON MAIN TOUR R690 PER PERSON. Arts on Main in Maboneng Precinct, is breathing new life into the city centre and is an important feature on the South African arts and crafts landscape. This inner city development provides a stimulating space for artists from many disciplines, including film, literature and contemporary art, to create and sell their work. THE CRADLE OF HUMANKIND TOUR R950 PER PERSON The Maropeng Visitor Centre is an exciting, world-class exhibition, focusing on the development of humans and our ancestors over the past few million years. Maropeng means “returning to the place of origin” in Setswana, the main indigenous language in this area of South Africa. Our ancestors have lived in this area for more than 3-million years. THE CRADLE OF HUMANKIND TOUR R950 PER PERSON About 50 km from Johannesburg - is the site of some of the most important discoveries concerning the evolution of man and have been declared a World Heritage Site. If it's true that Africa is the cradle of all mankind - and most paleontologists believe this to be so - then Sterkfontein Caves is surely one of the continent’s sacred sites. The Sterkfontein caves have been described as the anthropological treasure-house of the world'. THE CRADLE OF HUMANKIND TOUR R950 PER PERSON TOUR INCLUDES: - Return Hotel Transfer. - Entrance fees to the Maropeng Visitor Centre and Sterkfontein Caves. - The Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site. - Original fossil displays. - Guided tour through The Sterkfontein Caves. - Bottled water. LESEDI CULTURAL EXPERIENCE R1250 PER PERSON. Lesedi offers two unique day experiences in themselves where guests can share the excitement and warmth of true rural African culture. We invite you to experience the spirit of Ubuntu at this Unique Cultural Venue where the people of Lesedi welcome you with music, song and the warmth of Africa.One of Lesedi’s many differentiating factors is the village’s natural and tasteful incorporation into the surrounding bush, with five traditional homesteads including Zulu, Xhosa, Pedi,Basotho and Ndebele. LESEDI VILLAGE TOUR INCLUDES: - Return Hotel Transfer. - Entrance fees to Lesedi Cultural Village. - Traditional African welcome, Lunch/Dinner. - Attend a multi-visual theatre presentation - on the history and origin of the people. - Guided tour of five homesteads. - Song and dance of all five villages. - A Pan African Feast. - Bottled water. CANOPY TOUR AND LUNCH R900 PER PERSON The Canopy Tour is a unique eco adventure that takes clients on a tour down the spectacular Ysterhout Kloof, set in the ancient Magaliesberg Mountains. Eleven platforms have been built against the cliffs and rock faces of the kloof and are joined by long steel cables that clients slide along to reach the next platform. TOUR INCLUDES: The Canopy Tour, light meal after the canopy tour, bottled water, and transfer to and from the Canopy Tour. MORE INFO Much like a "foefie" slide, the canopy tour essentially involves zigzagging down the kloof while stopping at each platform to admire the expansive views and surrounding ecology. Two trained canopy guides assure the safety of each participant while describing interesting facts about the indigenous plants, bird life, ecology and geology of the area. Including the briefing session tours last approximately 2,5 hours. SUN CITY & PILANESBURG TOUR R1790 PER PERSON. The Palace of the Lost City one of the leading hotels around the world. The Tour Guide takes you around the Palace and gives you the history of the Palace then you walk around the public and the famous areas of the Palace and your guide will inform you about all the different Sculptors and custom made furniture in the Palace. Pilanesburg Game Reserve is in the Bojanala Region adjacent to Sun City. Pilanesburg National Park accommodates virtually every mammal of southern Africa. Also home to the Big Five. TOUR INCLUDES: - Return Hotel Transfer. - Entrance fees into the Pilanesburg National Park and The Palace of the Lost City. - Game viewing in the Pilanesburg National Park. - Guided Tour of The Palace of the Lost City. - Registered Guide. - Bottled water in the Microbus. MARIEVALE BIRD SANCTUARY R1590 PER PERSON (min 2 people) R890 PER PERSON (min 5 people) To the east of Johannesburg, just outside the small town of Nigel, is one of the most popular attractions in Gauteng, Marievale Bird Sanctuary. Approximately 1 000 hectares in extent, the sanctuary supports more than 240 bird species, among them 65 waterbird species, including large populations of Reed Cormorant, Red-knobbed Coot and Yellow-billed Duck. The sanctuary is also one of the best locations on the Gauteng map to see Goliath, Black, Squacco and Purple Herons. Although the construction of roads, railways, pipelines and power lines in the area has reduced the floodplain to small dams, waterbirds still favour Marievale as a feeding and breeding place. Habitats of the sanctuary include shallow open water, reedbeds and grassland, so the variety of birds is immense. If you are an experienced birder with a bit of luck you may even find Marsh Owl, African Grass-Owl, Red-chested Flufftail, Curlew Sandpiper, Sand Martin, Caspian Tern, Baillon’s Crake, Black-winged Pratincole or even Black-tailed Godwit. Other recently spotted birds include Slaty Egret, Yellow Wagtail, as well as Baird’s, Pectoral and Buff-breasted Sandpipers. LILIESLEAF TRUST R880 PER PERSON Liliesleaf honours South Africas remarkable heritage and the impressive trajectory of South Africa’s sociopolitical past. Once the headquarters of Umkhonto We Sizwe, Military wing of the ANC and the congress allience, Liliesleaf holds a position of a esteem among struggle landmarks in South Africa. Visitors will experience a first hand account of the events and circumstances leading up to the infamous Rivonia farm, as well as insights into some of the revolutionary personalities who helped to shape South Africa’s democracy. TOUR INCLUDES: ● Return Hotel Transfer. ● Entrance into Liliesleaf farm. ● Historical political content. ● The Sharpeville Massacre. ● The significance of Liliesleaf to the Struggle.
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