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May 13th-25th, 2017/ 13 Days TRIP REGISTRATION To register, contact Here’s How Your Exotic Alki Tours at (206)935-6848 Holiday will Unfold… sweeping beaches en route. After a stop or 1(800)895-2554 at the fishing village of , one You may also register on our Day One & Two: Seattle to Cape of 's best-kept secrets, web site at Town continue to the www.alkitours.com Your safari adventure begins with your A deposit of $500 per person is international flight to Cape Town via due within 14 days of booking to Johannesburg. Upon arrival, collect confirm your reservation. Full your luggage and then clear Customs payment is due 90 days prior to & Immigration. Re-check your bags the trip’s departure. for your domestic flight to Cape Town. Please make checks payable to: Upon arrival at Cape Town Airport, Alki Tours, 6417A Fauntleroy transfer to your hotel. As you transfer Way SW, Seattle WA 98136 to your hotel, you'll see the towering Nature Reserve, comprising over symbol of the city - . 17,300 acres of indigenous flora and The rest of the day is at leisure in this fauna, where you may see baboons by magnificent seaside city the road-side, rheboks, cape mountain Overnight: Cape Town zebras, bonteboks and the elusive eland. The native plant life, known as FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK Day Three: Cape Peninsula Tour , forms one Depart on a full day Cape Peninsula of only six floral Tour with lunch along the way. Drive kingdoms in the to at the southwestern tip world. Following of the Cape Peninsula, passing steep the coastline mountains, secluded coves, and along , return to Cape Town after lunch by way of Simon's Town. Here, visit the penguin colonies at , and continue with a scenic drive over Mountain. Lastly, visit the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens, resting at the foot of Table Mountain, for a short walking tour of includes explanations of color, cut Its Included: the beautiful gardens before arriving to and clarity. Following the tour (or for those who do not wish to participate)  Round trip flights be- Cape Town. This evening enjoy a Welcome Dinner at the hotel stroll through the adjacent V & A tween Seattle and Johan- Shopping Mall with its endless shopping nesburg via Delta and Overnight: Cape Town Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and dining opportunities before KLM returning to your hotel, or join the  Airline taxes & fuel sur- Day Four: Cape Town City Tour optional Townships of Cape Town Tour charges After a leisurely breakfast depart on a which provides the opportunity to  Intra-flight Cape Town- half day Cape Town city and Table experience authentic interactions with Durban Mountain tour. Driving to the city the city's many different communities  10 nights accommoda- Optional: Half Day Townships of Cape tions Town Tour (PM)  4 nights Cape Town Overnight: Cape Town  1 night Hluhluwe Meals: Breakfast  1 night Swaziland  2 nights Hazyview Day Five: Full Day in Cape Town  2 nights Johannesburg Enjoy the day at leisure in Cape Town.  Hotel porterage center, pass famous landmarks such as Perhaps join the optional Winelands  All transfers the built in 1666 Tour which takes you along the  17 meals: 10 breakfasts, 2 by the Dutch East India Company and country's principal wine route to the lunches, 5 dinners City Hall, a splendid baroque building, scenic towns of , Franschhoek and  Sightseeing per itinerary and of course the . See St. with tastings along the in modern air-conditioned George's Cathedral, the Anglican way. Alternatively, thrill seekers will motor coach Diocese of Nobel Peace Laureate not want to miss the optional excursion  Game drives in modern Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Pass the 10-seater safari vehicles Company Gardens and the Malay  Services of English- Quarter. The route then leads to Kloof speaking tour manager Nek and the magnificent Table throughout Mountain. Ascend to the top (weather  Entrance fees per itinerary permitting) by means of a cable car. At the summit, see wild flowers, the famous silver tree, and marvel at a Cancellation Policy birds-eye view of the city and its More than 90 days prior to the trip’s departure: beaches. On a clear day it is even possible to see Robben , where Full Refund to "Shark Alley" to experience great 89-60 days prior to the trip’s Nelson Mandela was imprisoned, on white shark cage diving. Tonight, departure: 75% Refund experience local culture in a relaxed and 59-41 days prior to departure: comfortable environment at the optional 50% refund Home Hosted Dinner 40-31 days prior to departure Optional: Full Day Private Winelands 25% Refund Tour* 30 Days prior to trips depar- Optional: Full Day Great White Shark ture: Cage Diving* NO REFUND *The Full Day Winelands Tour and Full one side, and Cape Point on the other. Descend from the upper cableway Day Great White Shark Cage Diving TRAVEL INSURANCE operate simultaneously. Passengers may Information regarding a variety station and proceed to the Lighthouse. Later, you will have the opt to participate in only one of these of travel insurance policies are tours. available upon request. We opportunity to learn the three billion year old story of diamond while touring Optional: Home Hosted Dinner in Cape recommend that sufficient in- Town surance be purchased to cover the prominent Shimansky Jewelers & Museum at Cape Town's famous V & A Overnight: Cape Town the possibility of lost or dam- Meals: Breakfast aged baggage, accidents or ill- Waterfront. The 45-minute tour reveals ness. the origins of diamond mining and Day Six: Flight to Durban, Game warthog, crocodile, and antelope. the hotel where you will enjoy dinner Viewing Cruise on the St. Lucia Following the safari, continue to the Overnight: Hazyview Estuary border of the Kingdom of Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner This morning transfer to the airport Swaziland. This independent for your flight to Durban. Upon kingdom within the borders of Day Nine: Kruger National Park arrival in the early afternoon, drive South Africa is known for its lovely Game Drive to St. Lucia. Later, embark on a scenery and vibrant indigenous The day begins at dawn with coffee, game viewing cruise that takes you culture. Stop at a handicraft market tea, and rusks, a South African dry on the St. Lucia Estuary. This tidal this afternoon before arriving to biscuit. Upon departure from the estuary is home to Nile crocodiles, your hotel in the early evening hotel, a pre-packed breakfast will be Overnight: Swaziland provided for you. Then, on to Kruger Meals: Breakfast National Park for a thrilling full day open-vehicle game drive. Larger than Day Eight: Swaziland Sightseeing the state of Connecticut, the park and Matsamo Village Visit offers some of the best game and After breakfast visit the Ngwenya wildlife viewing opportunities in the glass factory, where visitors can world, and early morning is an optimal time of day. You may have a chance to see , elephant, giraffe, hippopotami, sea turtles, and even sharks, making it a fascinating and uniquely diverse ecosystem. This evening, enjoy dinner at the hotel Overnight: Hluhluwe Meals: Breakfast, Dinner Day Seven: Game Drive in watch talented glass blowers create Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Game a range of enchanting African or zebra in their natural habitat. After Reserve, Travel to Swaziland animals, birds and fish, as well as stopping at a rest camp for lunch on After an early breakfast, travel to tableware, made from recycled your own, continue your game drive. the Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Game glass that is collected by the With any luck, you may even see Reserve, situated in northern children of Swaziland. Transfer to cheetah and . After the day's KwaZulu Natal, which contains an the South African border and visit excitement, relax by the pool and immense diversity of fauna and Matsamo Cultural Village where enjoy dinner at the hotel flora and is particularly famous for you can learn more about the Swazi Overnight: Hazyview its conservation of black and white traditions and customs. Enjoy Meals: Breakfast, Dinner rhinos. Home to Africa's "Big traditional dance and song Five," you may have a chance to Day Ten: Panorama Route to see elephant, Cape buffalo, lion and Johannesburg Depart after breakfast and travel to Mpumalanga Province, known as "Paradise Country," driving the spectacular "Panorama Route." Stop to admire the views of amazing scenery along the 16-mile-long Blyde River Canyon, cut deep into performances with authentic African instruments as well as traditional Swazi cuisine. You may leopard, in addition to rhino during wander through the village with its your morning game drive through many traditional huts and interact the reserve. The park also boasts with the locals. Later, continue to red sandstone, and God's Window Hector Peterson memorial, dedi- (weather permitting), a breathtak- cated to one of the first casualties of ing, edenic vista at the edge of the the Soweto uprising of 1976. Re- escarpment overlooking Kruger Na- turn to the hotel for lunch on your tional Park. Visit Bourke's Luck own before departing for the Apart- heid Museum. On your guided tour of the museum you will journey through the racial segregation ex- perienced by millions of South Af- ricans just over a decade ago. This evening enjoy a Farewell Dinner at the hotel Overnight: Johannesburg Meals: Breakfast, Dinner

Potholes, a series of waterfalls and Day Twelve-Thirteen: Depart distinctive rock formations created South Africa by countless millennia of water ero- Transfer to the airport for your sion before proceeding this after- KLM flight departing 11:15 pm ar- noon to Johannesburg riving 10:25am on Thursday. Overnight: Johannesburg Meals: Breakfast Meals: Breakfast Day Eleven: Soweto Tour After an early breakfast depart on a half day tour of Soweto. Experience a fascinating glimpse of the bus- tling neighborhood life of Soweto, the most metropolitan township in the country, setting trends in poli- tics, fashion, music, dance and lan- guage. Drive by the former resi- dence of Bishop Desmond Tutu and visit Nelson Mandela's former home, before proceeding to the