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FEBRUARY 1, 2020 Victoria Falls SEPTEMBER 4-17, 2020 Price includes: • Transfers to and from MSP • Round-trip airfare from Minneapolis • Pre-night stay in Capetown • 5 nights Capetown, 3 nights Kruger National Park, 2 nights Victoria Falls, 2 nights Johannesburg. • Intra-Africa airfare • Six Game Drives! • Cruise on Zambezi River & guided walk of the falls • All hotels, meals, and tours as specified in itinerary • All taxes, transfers and gratuities • Travel protection is included and valued at $385 pp (To decline this option speak with a personal banker at time of registration) FIRST CITIZENS BANK Mason City Charles City THE New Hampton • Osage EARLY BIRD Clarion • Kanawha sees the WORLD! Latimer • Mora $ 250 off 800-423-1602 your trip price when you ITINERARY VARIATIONS: First Citizens and its air/hotel/ land suppliers constantly strive to improve each itinerary and all features. If improvements can be made or unforeseen conditions register before beyond our control make changes necessary, we reserve the right to vary itineraries and substitute hotels. Occasional restorations may cause exhibits to close. During local or national May 24, 2019! holidays abroad, certain facilities such as museums, theatres, sightseeing tours and shopping may be limited. In such instances, and wherever possible, slight itinerary adjustments are made by First Citizens to minimize inconvenience to our travelers. First Citizens will not be held responsible for any of these occurrences. CANCELLATION POLICY: Travel Protection is included in the cost of the trip. If you keep the protection that is included and need to cancel for a covered reason after the final payment date of February 1, 2020, you may submit your claim for reimbursement to the insurance company. If the protection is declined at time of registration, no refund will be given after the final payment date of February 1, 2020. DAY DAY DAY SEPTEMBER 4 SEPTEMBER 9 SEPTEMBER 13 1 OVERNIGHT 6 CAPE TOWN 10 JOHANNESBURG We depart Minneapolis on our overnight Today is a full day on-your-own in Cape We’ll enjoy one last GAME DRIVE this flight to Capetown, South Africa! Town! We’ll have suggestions and morning before heading to the airport for planned optional excursions to help our flight to Johannesburg. The rest of DAY you make the most of your day. Perhaps the day is at your leisure. (B) SEPTEMBER 5 & 6 explore the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront, 2 & 3 CAPE TOWN or visit the stunning Cape winelands DAY We arrive in Cape Town and check in for wine tasting, or cruise to Robben SEPTEMBER 14 to our hotel to rest up from our flight. Island, where Nelson Mandela spent 18 JOHANNESBURG of his 27 years in prison. (B) 11 Sleep-in the next morning or get up and Today’s sightseeing starts with a visit explore on-your-own perhaps with the to SOWETO (South Western Township), hop-on-hop-off open top bus tour! (B) DAYSEPTEMBER 10 the largest township in the country. DAY Along the way, see the neighborhood SEPTEMBER 7 7 makalali that was home to two Nobel Peace We leave Cape Town behind and Prize winners: Archbishop Desmond 4 CAPE TOWN fly to Hoedspruit for our journey to Tutu and Nelson Mandela. Gain some First breakfast, then our SIGHTSEEING MAKALALI PRIVATE GAME RESERVE perspective of life here at MANDELA TOUR begins at the Grand Parade to begin our safari adventure! This HOUSE, where Nelson Mandela lived with the Castle of Good Hope and area, near Kruger National Park, is from 1946 to around 1960, when he City Hall. A WALKING TOUR introduces famous for its abundance of wildlife, was forced underground to elude us to more of Cape Town’s famous and you’ll have a great chance of arrest. Next, we visit the unforgettable and historic landmarks including St. seeing the “Big 5” ~ lion, leopard, APARTHEID MUSEUM to learn about George’s Cathedral and Parliament. elephant, rhino, and Cape buffalo. the founding of South Africa before Then we’ll enter THE COMPANY Enjoy your first GAME DRIVE this delving into the apartheid era. The GARDEN, a beautiful oasis in the city, afternoon. Your skilled tracker and museum takes you on an extraordinary en route to GREEN MARKET SQUARE, professional Ranger work together as journey through the apartheid years which has been a fruit and vegetable a team, so you view wildlife up close. to the 1994 democratic elections that market and even a slave market. We’ll Sip SUNDOWNER DRINKS prior to named Nelson Mandela president. (B, L) visit the BO-KAAP MUSEUM before returning to the lodge for dinner. (B, D) continuing our walk in BO-KAAP, also DAY known as the Malay Quarter. This area SEPTEMBER 15 has been declared a national monument! DAY ZIMBABWE After a traditional Malay lunch, we’ll SEPTEMBER 11 & 12 12 We leave South Africa and fly north to visit TABLE MOUNTAIN for a CABLE-CAR 8 & 9 MAKALALI Zimbabwe! This evening, we’ll enjoy RIDE to the top (weather permitting) We’re up at 5:00 or 5:30am for our a CRUISE on the ZAMBEZI RIVER, where we’ll see stunning views of the EARLY MORNING GAME DRIVE. If the which affords us an opportunity to city. This evening we’ll enjoy dinner timing is right, we might spot some photograph wildlife and a spectacular together at a local restaurant. (B, L, D) big cats after a night of hunting. African sunset. (B, D) Chances are we could also spot: DAY kudu, impala, giraffe, hippo, cheetah, DAY SEPTEMBER 8 spotted hyena, wildebeest and more. SEPTEMBER 16 5 CAPE PENINSULA great bird watching is also possible 13 VICTORIA FALLS It’s a FULL-DAY of sightseeing, at this time of day. We’ll return for This morning we head to the largest starting with Cape Town. Then a breakfast mid-morning, followed by natural waterfall in the world, scenic drive south through the fishing time to relax and enjoy the lodge and VICTORIA FALLS for an awe-inspiring village of HOUT BAY before ascending its surroundings. You may want to experience! The locals used to call the CHAPMAN’S PEAK DRIVE, which skirts swim in the pool, sit back and watch waterfall Mosi-o-Tunya “the smoke the rocky coastline and is one of the the animals, or simply take a nap that thunders.” Enjoy a GUIDED WALK, most scenic drives in the world! On to before our afternoon game drive! where you’ll learn the history of the CAPE POINT NATURE RESERVE with Mid-afternoon, tea will be served prior falls and hear fascinating details stops at the Cape of Good Hope and to our AFTERNOON GAME DRIVE. about the surrounding flora and Cape Point, the southwestern-most Step out of the safari vehicle for fauna. This evening enjoy a special point on the African continent. We’ll SUNDOWNER DRINKS and watch as riverside Farewell Dinner. (B, D) take a FUNICULAR RIDE to the steps the sun sets over the Drakensberg of the old lighthouse for spectacular Mountains. As darkness descends, DAY panoramic views. Afterwards, we visit your tracker will bring out a spotlight SEPTEMBER 17 BOULDERS BEACH to see a colony to help you spot nocturnal animals - 14 JOHANNESBURG of endangered AFRICAN penguins. if we’re lucky, a leopard! Then we Our adventure ends today with a Returning to Cape Town to relax from return to the lodge to freshen up flight back to Johannesburg then on our busy and sight-filled day. (B, L) before dinner. (B, L, D) to our homebound flight. (B).