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5665 New Northside Drive * Suite 150 * Atlanta, Georgia 30328

SOUTH AFRICA: Visiting , Kruger Park, and Sun City

Under the Leadership of Dr. Dwight Jones and Dr. Derik Jones

October 18-31, 2021 $5,899.00 from Washington, Dulles (all inclusive) ACCEPTANCE OF INVITATION PRINT LEGIBLY ALL DETAILS AND MAKE ALL CHECKS PAYABLE AND MAIL TO: CONSOLIDATED TOURS ORGANIZATION, INC. 5665 New Northside Drive, Suite 150 * Atlanta, Georgia 30328 Mr. Mrs. NAME Ms. (NAME AS IT APPEARS ON YOUR PASSPORT)

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Oct 18: WASHINGTON, DULLES/JOHANNESBURG Depart separation laws. Thus, some 50,000 Asians were resettled in their Washington, Dulles International airport via your South African own suburb, , and the blacks were assigned to vast townships Airways flight to South Africa. on the outskirts; , by far the biggest and best known, is home for perhaps two million people. Depart Johannesburg enroute to Oct 19: Upon your arrival in Johannesburg you will be met and Kruger National Park, one of the most famous national parks in the transferred to your hotel. Dinner and overnight in world and the oldest in Africa. Kruger is 212 miles from North to South JOHANNESBURG and 40 miles in width. Upon arrival in Kruger, check into your game lodge and freshen up. Afternoon game drive to view wildlife before Oct 20: JOHANNESBURG/KRUGER PARK Enjoy a panoramic tour returning to your camp for dinner. Dinner and overnight in Kruger of Johannesburg to see the Shell House which is the headquarters of Park. the African National Congress. Visit the new "Museumafrica". In this sleek new gallery, black mineworkers, squatter-camp families, speak Oct 21: KRUGER NATIONAL PARK Full day game viewing in the easy hostesses and domestic servants have a place of pride. The park. Impala, blue wildebeest, giraffe, zebra and baboon are museum is housed in a cavernous, brightly renovated building that frequently seen. There are over 1200 lions in the park and elephants used to be the city's main fruit and vegetable market. It is in the lively are frequently seen in the north. Other rare animals are eland, roan downtown complex that also contains the Market Theater, the center antelope, tsessebe, and carnivores such as cheetah, wild dog, of anti- dramatic ferment and still a source of inventive leopard, and small nocturnal cats. Enjoy lunch will be served at a energy. An exhibit on housing includes two shacks purchased from rest camp in the park. Return to your camp for dinner and overnight. squatter-camp residents and reconstructed to approximate the Dinner and overnight in Kruger Park. atmosphere in which some 8 million South Africans live, without electricity or indoor plumbing. Most of the world's great cities were Oct 22: PILGRIM'S REST/JOHANNESBURG Enjoy a half day visit built alongside rivers, but Johannesburg had to make do with an to the fascinating village of Pilgrim's Rest, scene of the 1873 underground stream...of Gold! That was enough to transform it in Transvaal Gold Rush. The town is a national monument and has three years from meager grazing land to the biggest town in South retained much of the atmosphere of a 19th century mining town. It is Africa. A century later, it is a dynamic metropolis of a bit more than a glorious living museum of the early pioneering days. Proceed to two million people. Like all South African cities, Johannesburg's your hotel in Johannesburg. Dinner and overnight in historic population patterns had been dislocated by the racial JOHANNESBURG Oct 23: PRETORIA Drive north over the Transvaal Highveld to mountains. In 1910, Capetown was made the legislative capital of Pretoria, one of South Africa's three capital cities, visiting the South Africa. Dinner and overnight in CAPETOWN Voortrekker (Pioneer) Monument, historic Church Square dominated by Paul Kruger's statue and the Union buildings - seat of the Oct 26: CAPETOWN This morning the tour begins with a drive to government. Pretoria is the administrative capital of the republic as Signal Hill and a ride to the top of by cable car to enjoy well as the provincial capital of the Transvaal. The historic heart of the magnificent panoramic view this affords. Visit the Cathedral of the Pretoria is Church Square, where the early settlers built their first Most Reverend Desmond Tutu, the first black to hold the post of church in the 1850's. In the middle of the square stands a statue of Archbishop of Capetown and a Nobel Peace Laureate. This afternoon Paul Kruger, a rugged pioneer who was elected President four times you will cruise to Robben Island Prison, where former President in the late 19th century. Around the base of the monument are statues spent most of his 27 year incarceration. It was likely of four rifle-toting citizen-soldiers of the era. Facing the square are that on many a day that Rolihlahla Nelson Mandela could see the some distinguished official buildings of earlier days: the old Raadsaal Statehouse in Capetown. While in office he sat in that same (parliament) in Italian Renaissance style, the South African Reserve Statehouse and saw Robben Island Prison that once held him. It is Bank, designed by the famous architect Sir Herbert Baker, and the the most spectacular miracle of our time. IF THE CRUISE IS Palace of Justice, used as a hospital during the British occupation of OPERATING. In case of cancellation of cruise due to weather 1900. For miles around Pretoria you can see the Voorrekker conditions, tour will be to Mitchells Plain & Khayelitsha Townships. Monument on its hilltop. From afar it might be mistaken for an electric Dinner and overnight in CAPETOWN power station or some such windowless leviathan, but its purpose is purely symbolic - a shrine dedicated to the fortitude of pioneers of the Oct 27: CAPE PENINSULA Depart this morning on a full day tour to 1830s who trekked from the Cape to the Transvaal to perpetuate their Cape Peninsula. This tour offers unsurpassed scenery and a drive religion, language and austere way of life. It is a shrine built to spanning the whole peninsula, one of the most beautiful promontories celebrate the white domination of black people. Inside the granite in the world. This tiny outcrop of land is washed on the west by the monument, an aperture in the high domed roof is placed so that at Atlantic and on the east by the Indian Ocean. Travel along magnificent noon on every December 16th, a beam of sunlight penetrates to a Marine Drive beyond Lion’s Head, past Camps Bay and the Twelve crypt far below, illuminating the inscription on a sarcophagus: Ons vir Apostles to , a quaint fishing village on the Atlantic seaboard. jou, Suid-Afrika (meaning We're for you, South Africa). This Over Constantia Nek, past Pollsmor Prison, over Silvermine Pass, via inscription was at the heart of the racist notion that God had somehow Kommetjie to Cape Point, where the Indian and Atlantic Ocean’s given South Africa to the white settlers and they were by "Divine Right" merge. Cape Point Nature Reserve covers 7750 unspoiled hectares saviors of South Africa. December 16th is the anniversary of the 1838 of the southernmost part of the Cape Peninsula. The peninsula divides Battle of Blood. Over 3000 Zulu warriors were killed in this battle over at the tip into three points. The Cape of Good Hope is the most land that the Boers had taken from the Zulus. Return to your hotel in southerly point; east of this is Cape Maclear, named after Sir Thomas Johannesburg. Dinner and overnight in JOHANNESBURG Maclear, the 19th century astronomer; and still further east is Cape Point. Among the 150 species of birds that can be seen in the reserve, Oct 24 (SUN): JOHANNESBURG/SOWETO WORSHIP SERVICE are the ostrich, white-fronted plover, black backed gull, cormorant and IN SOWETO. After church visit Soweto, a familiar name around the sugarbird. Travel through the attractive False Bay resorts of Simon’s world, which is actually an acronym for Southwest Township. It is Town and , along Boyes Drive, which offers glorious views home for more than 2 million "blacks and " to use the of the False Bay coastline, and the Hottentots Holland Mountains, designation of apartheid. The laws of apartheid had prohibited blacks then over De Waal Drive with excellent views of Table Bay to from living within the city proper save for a few live-in female Capetown. (Lunch will be served en route) Dinner and overnight houseworkers. During the daylight hours, downtown Johannesburg in CAPETOWN looked just like Newark or Detroit. At night, it was suddenly all White as if someone had waved a wand and made the Blacks disappear. Oct 28: CAPETOWN / JOHANNESBURG Take a morning flight from Their exodus was to the sprawling township southwest of Cape Town to Johannesburg. Then drive to Sun City (about 3 hours). Johannesburg, hence its name - Soweto. The name Soweto has been Balance of the day at leisure. Dinner and overnight. burned into our consciousness by the children's uprising against the hated Bantu education that prepared the Blacks for service jobs only Oct 29: CAPETOWN / JOHANNESBURG / SUN CITYTake a and the Afrikkan language for its usefulness to their prospective morning flight from Cape Town to Johannesburg. Then drive to Sun masters and employers. From the children's revolt until the present, City (about 3 hours). Balance of the day at leisure. Dinner and Soweto was the scene, oft times the center, of the resistance against overnight. apartheid and the racist regime. Time and again, Soweto has been the site of confrontation between the proponents for liberation and the Oct 30: SUN CITY / JOHANNESBURG / WASHINGTON Free day in armed might of the South African Defense Forces. Nelson Mandela's Sun City to relax. We depart this day after lunch. Transfer to the airport home is in Soweto as well as Desmond Tutu's. The ground in Soweto for your return flight home. is soaked with the blood of martyrs, men, women and children alike. As you approach Soweto on the super-highways, one can see a blue- Oct 31: WASHINGTON Arrive at Washington, Dulles in t the morning. gray smoke that hangs like a pall over the entire area stretching for 17 miles. Soweto in its expanse and nearly 50 communities would make SUGGESTED PAYMENT SCHEDULE: ten Harlems! There is Orlando East, Orlando West, Kliptown, Chiewelo, Eldorado Park, Niceville, Lineas, Racecourse, etc. Time is Deposit March 18, 2020 $500.00 allowed to meet and talk with residents. Visit the Holy Cross Anglican 1st Payment April 18, 2020 $335.00 Church of Orlando West which was Bishop Tutu's seat before he was 2nd Payment May 18, 2020 $335.00 elevated to Archbishop of South Africa. Dinner and overnight in 3rd Payment June 18, 2020 $335.00 JOHANNESBURG 4th Payment July 18, 2020 $335.00 5th Payment August 18, 2020 $335.00 Oct 25: JOHANNESBURG /CAPETOWN Transfer to the airport for 6th Payment September 18, 2020 $335.00 your flight from Johannesburg to Capetown. Upon your arrival in 7th Payment October 18, 2020 $335.00 Capetown, you will be met and transferred to your hotel. . Drive 8th Payment November 18, 2020 $335.00 through the centuries old Malay Quarter: the Cape Malays are mostly 9th Payment December 18, 2020 $335.00 the descendants of slaves brought in from Asia in the second half of 10th Payment January 18, 2021 $335.00 the 17th century. They are Muslims and live in a separate 11th Payment February 18, 2021 $335.00 neighborhood close to the business district. The Malay Quarter is 12 Payment March 18, 2021 $335.00 worth a visit for the sight of the pastel colored little houses, the 13th Payment April 18, 2021 $335.00 minarets, and the kindly people themselves. Capetown is a beautiful 14th Payment May 18, 2021 $335.00 city built at the base and lower slopes of a series of magnificent 15th Payment June 18, 2021 $335.00 Final Payment July 18, 2021 $374.00 TOUR CONDITIONS

AIR TRANSPORTATION: Economy class jet BOOKING AND CONDITIONS: This is an exclusive, connecting IATA and ATC carriers. Airfare is based on by invitation-only, study tour hosted by Dr. Dwight Jones, SUPER APEX 6-21 days plus domestic add-on fares where who reserves the right to approve all requests to participate applicable. Airfares are based on January 2020 rates and in the tour. are subject to change without prior notice. Deposit and payment. A deposit of $500.00 per person is required at the time of booking. Final payment must be BAGGAGE: Limited to one normal size suitcase, the made no later than 90 days prior to departure. weight of which should not exceed 50 pounds. Flight bags, cosmetic bags, briefcases, and camera cases remain in the CANCELLATIONS: Cancellations must be made in personal care of tour members and are not included in the writing. Cancellations made up to 90 days prior to 50 pounds. departure, refunds will be made less $100.00 per person administrative fee. Cancellations made 89-36 days prior to HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS: Superior First Class departure will be subject to $300.00 per person Hotels, two persons sharing a twin bedroom with private administrative fee. Cancellations received 35 days or less bath. prior to departure have to pay a charge equivalent to 75% of the cost of the basic tour from the Gateway City. NO A limited number of single rooms are available at $1875.00 SHOW NO REFUND. Cancellation charges with medical supplemental cost. Confirmation required before reasons certified by a hospital and accepted by the airlines departure. and suppliers will only be made based on refunds from MEALS: TWO MEALS PER DAY: Full breakfast and suppliers and less $300.00 per person administrative fee. Table d’Hote for dinner daily in hotels. TRAVEL PROTECTION IS HIGHLY SUGGESTED. No refunds for services or sightseeing rendered and not SIGHTSEEING: As detailed in the itinerary, using used by tour members. In the event departure does not comfortable and convenient transportation. English reach the minimum required number prior to departure, speaking Escort and local government licensed guide. All Consolidated Tours Org. Inc. RESERVES THE RIGHT entrance fees are included when applicable to specified TO CANCEL, withdraw or change the tour in whole or in sites. part at any time in the event a change is deemed necessary by CTO, Inc. The sole obligation of CTO, Inc. is to refund TIPS: Tips associated with porterage at the hotels, meal payments received in connection herewith if not acceptable gratuities, GUIDES and DRIVERS rendering services to tour members. totaling $100.00 per person are included. RESPONSIBILITY: Consolidated Tours Org. Inc. (CTO) TAXES: Service charges as imposed by lodging facilities, and their Agents assume no liability or responsibility for taxes by local administrations and government authorities any injuries or loss of property, accident, delay, changes in on lodging are included on all services rendered to the schedule or itinerary or incidental damages, occasioned by group. Airport taxes and fuel surcharge totaling $635.00 circumstances beyond the control of CTO, Inc. or by any are included in the price of the tour and are subject to person or reason whatsoever, including but not limited to change without prior notice. Passengers will be billed or default or omission of and by any third party providing refunded for any differences. services or facilities related to or included in this tour or any part thereof or in arranging for same. The IATA THE TOUR PRICE DOES NOT INCLUDE: Expense carriers, steamship firms and other transportation of passports, visas, laundry, wines, liquors, mineral water, companies whose services are featured in these tours are lunches, and after supper coffee or tea or items not found not to be held responsible for any act, omission or event on the menu, excessive baggage expenses, and all items of during the time the passengers are not on board their a personal nature, plus those not listed as being included in respective conveyance. The passage contract in use by the tour price. these companies, when issued, shall constitute the sole contract between the companies and the purchaser of these REQUIREMENTS FOR TRAVEL: tours and/or passenger and CTO, Inc. assumes no liability or responsibility in connection therewith. PASSPORT – American citizens traveling abroad must have a valid passport. Apply at your nearest passport Tour Planned and operated by: office or clerk of superior court immediately. Non- CONSOLIDATED TOURS ORG. INC. American citizens need to check with CTO for 5665 New Northside Drive, Suite 150 requirements. Atlanta, Georgia 30328 Tel: 404-767-2727 VISA: SOUTH AFRICA – Visa upon arrival. Fax: 404-766-4520 Email: [email protected] VACCINATION: None at this time