7 DAY TOUR : KRUGER, SWAZILAND, ST LUCIA & DURBAN ITINERARY 7 DAY TOUR KRUGER, SWAZILAND, ST LUCIA & DURBAN

DEPARTS EVERY MONDAYS From your accommodation in Johannesburg or Pretoria

HIGHLIGHTs: • Panorama Road : Gods Window, Bourke’s Luck potholes • Scenic highlights of Canyon from Three Rondavels view point • Full day in Kruger Park in open vehicle • Kingdom of Swaziland • Swaziland Ngwenya Glass • Mantenga Cultural Village • Swazi Candle Factory and Craft Market • Sunset Game Drive in Kruger National Park • Mlilwane Wildlife Sanctuary • St Lucia / Isimangaliso Wetlands • Durban

INCLUDED:

• All transport • All accommodation • Qualified and registered guide • All Breakfasts • Entrance & conservation fees to Kruger National Park • Game drives in Kruger National Park (Full Day - open vehicle) • Sunset Game Drive in Kruger National Park (open vehicle) • Sunset Boat Cruise St. Lucia • & Blyde River Canyon (Three Rondavels view point)

EXCLUDED: • All lunches, dinners, beverages, snacks • Optional extra activities • Items of a personal nature • Tipping / gratuity for drivers, guides and waiters

2 7 DAY TOUR : KRUGER SWAZILAND ST LUCIA DURBAN DAY 1 Johannesburg - Blyde River Canyon

This Adventure starts with being collected at your Canyon, and includes some breathtaking views. accommodation in Pretoria or Johannesburg area. We will stop at God Window’s viewpoint first. Just We travel across the Highveld, passing the farm- one look down and you will begin to understand lands and the coal fields. After a couple hours we why it is called "God's Window". Next stop is at turn of the main highway and head through the ‘Bourke’s Luck Potholes’. Over thousands of years, highland meanders. They are lying between the surreal cylindrical rock sculptures created by whirl- higher reaches of the escarpment and is renowned ing water have formed a series of dark pools which as the place to go for trout fly fishing, surrounded contrast artfully with the streaked white and by imposing mountains and rivers. We then travel yellow lichen covered rocks. To finsh the day, enjoy towards the Panorama route in . This the breathtaking views of the Three Rondavels scenic route follows the edge of the Blyde River where we lodge tonight.

ACCOMMODATION: Camping at Forever Resort Blyde River Canyon

DAY 2 Blyde River Canyon - Kruger National Park

Our day starts early with coffee and rusks as we Lowveld home to the world famous Kruger watch the sunrise over the canyon. Returning for a National Park. We arrive in , where we well-deserved hearty breakfast. Various hikes are lodge for the next 2 nights. This afternoon you will available ranging from a leisurely 30 min hike embark on your first exhilarating sunset drive in down the canyon to a Tufa waterfall. To a more the Kruger National Park. This is where the real adventurous 2 to 5-hour hikes. Great opportuni- excitement starts as you set off with a specialised ties are available for breathtaking views and park ranger on your first safari. This sunset/night photos over the Blyde river canyon and providing a safari lasts roughly 3H and gives an opportunity to different view of the Three Rondavels. After morn- view some of the nocturnal animals. Returning ing activities we leave the Canyon area and drive back at the lodge for dinner, drinks and to recollect through the tourist village of Graskop, travelling the days happenings before heading to bed for an down the escarpment and into the picturesque early rise.

ACCOMMODATION: Camping in a Lodge in Hazyview area Included meals: Breakfast

3 7 DAY TOUR : KRUGER SWAZILAND ST LUCIA DURBAN DAY 3 Full Day Kruger National Park

Rising early this morning to enter the Kruger Kruger Park is home to an impressive number of National Park to enjoy a full-day of game viewing species: 336 trees, 49 fish, 34 amphibians, 114 with a Kruger Park specialist guide on an open 4x4 reptiles, 507 birds and 147 mammals. Mountains, safari vehicle. A breakfast pack will be provided to bush plains and tropical forests are all part of the take with. Don’t forget to pack the sun screen and landscape. swimming cozzie as there could be a chance at Late afternoon you will return to lodge where you lunch for a quick cool down, during the heat of can enjoy leisure time before dinner. the day where the animals are less active.

ACCOMMODATION: Camping in a Lodge in Hazyview area. Included meals: Packed breakfast

4 7 DAY TOUR : KRUGER SWAZILAND ST LUCIA DURBAN DAY 4 & 5 Kruger National Park to the Kingdom of Swaziland This morning if you would like to do an extra safari well as a cultural experience at Mantenga Cultural there is an option to do so on an open vehicle or if Village for a great insight into the Swazi culture you feeling more adventurous try a bush walk and Traditions. We overnight the next 2 nights at which is a great way to end this leg of your African Mlilwane Wildlife Sanctuary. The sanctuary is filled experience before we depart to the Kingdom of with free roaming animals and offers guests the Swaziland. Keep the passports handy today as we opportunity to do some mountain biking, have a Border Control Point laying ahead at the horseback safaris or simply just go for an amazing Swaziland Border where a warm smile awaits us. In hike. Swaziland we will visit a Glass & Candle factory as ACCOMMODATION: Shared accommodation - Mlilwane Wildlife Sanctuary or Similar Included meals: 2x Breakfast

DAY 6 Swaziland – St Lucia This morning after breakfast we leave this amazing forests to rocky and sandy shores, coral reefs and country behind us and cross the border re-entering submarine canyons, and a mosaic of mangroves, South Africa into KwaZulu-Natal province as we savannah grassland, thickets and woodlands. head south to the small coastal town of St Lucia Late afternoon we board a boat to view the and the iSimangaliso Wetland Park. This crocodiles, hippos and the amazing bird life of this sub-tropical paradise covers about 240,000 UNESCO World Heritage site. Tonight, you have a hectares and is the largest estuarine system in free night to explore the village on foot with a Africa. It encompasses a huge range of natural wide selection for restaurants to choose from for systems, ranging from dune, swamp and coastal dinner. ACCOMMODATION: Shared accommodation in a Lodge in St Lucia. Included meals: Breakfast

DAY 7 St Lucia – Durban Today your trip will be coming to an end where we we arrive in Durban, passing the impressive Moses will be saying our sad good byes in Durban. We Mabida Stadium in all its glory, we drive along the leave St. Lucia after breakfast hugging the lush Durban beach front stopping at the harbour for KwaZulu-Natal coastline making our way to lunch while we watch the yachts doing their thing. Durban, watching the sugar cane fields do their This is where we say our goodbyes and the guys own version of the Mexican wave in the wind. As doing the 10 day carry on to the Drakenseberg. Included meals: Breakfast CONTACT US FOR MORE INFORMATION: Mon to Sun: 8am -8pm Follow us on: Tel: +27 21 422 5202 • Fax: 021 422 4533 Email: [email protected] • Website: www.bazbus.com

5 7 DAY TOUR : KRUGER SWAZILAND ST LUCIA DURBAN