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African Wildlife Photo Safaris
Visit the iconic Kruger National Park
Heal your soul communing with wild animals in the bushveld
Learn about the wonders of nature with a knowledgeable guide
Let an award-winning cinematographer/photographer help you get special pictures
Enjoy a delicious braai (barbecue) under open skies, and gaze at the southern stars
Price is all inclusive, departs/ends Johannesburg
"Midrange" means normal accommodation in Kruger National Park (KNP)
"Luxury" means 4 or 5 star accommodation at a private lodge
All tours include 3 nights in KNP
6-Day (Midrange – 2 nights at private lodge) P.O.A.
7-Day (Luxury 4 nights at private lodges) P.O.A.
10-day Special Private Photo Safari available. P.O.A.
(Discounted prices may apply if you book via SafariBookings.com)
Birding Day Tours
Gauteng offers amazing birding opportunities, especially in the world's largest human-made forest. About 350 species can be spotted on a good day. David is an enthusiastic birder, not an ornithologist, so have reasonable expectations!
Tour 1(North): Rietfontein Nature Reserve, Pretoria surrounds (bushveld, and highveld grasslands, water birds, garden birds)
Tour 2 (Reef): Walter Sisulu Botanic Gardens, Delta Park, Klipriviersberg NR (Verreaux's eagles, raptors, water birds, garden birds, bush and grassland birds)
Tour 3 (South): Marievale, Suikerbosrand (wetlands, grasslands, bushveld, woodlands)
Combined or other tours further afield can be arranged on demand.
Day Tour only From R3000–R3800 pp (2025)
From R3390–R4295 pp (2026)
Cradle of Humankind Tour
Visit the Origins Museum to see the history of
Humankind and Bushman paintings
Travel to the Cradle and the Sterkfontein Caves
See the sites where famous discoveries were made
Visit the modern Maropeng Museum to step
back millions of years, then into the future!
Day Tour – all inclusive
From R3000–3800 pp (2025)
From R3390–4295 pp (2026)
Apartheid History Tour
Two-day or single day tours are offered. Two-Day Tour focuses on
the capital, Pretoria (Tshwane) and deals with a longer period of history, including
how apartheid's architects hid evidence of earlier civilisations to reduce black
people to "hewers of wood and drawers of water".
The second tour focuses specifically on apartheid history since the 1950s, the rise of
the ANC as an underground resistance liberation movement, and the markers of
that period, Sharpeville, the Treason Trial, the Rivonia Trial, 16 June 1976, the two
States of Emergency, the rise of the United Democratic Front, and finally,
the end of apartheid in 1994.
Two different day tours are offered:
Pretoria: Choose three of the following: Union Buildings, Solomon Mahlangu
monument in Mamelodi Township,
the Voortrekker Monument and Freedom Park,
Johannesburg/Soweto options: Liliesleaf Museum or the famed Vilikazi Street, Hector
Pietersen Memorial, Lunch at a famous tavern, Regina Mundi church,and the Apartheid
Museum or the Constitutional Court.
From R3000–R3600 pppd (one day), or R4200–5000 (two days) (2025)
From R3390–R4070 pppd (one day), or R4746–5650 (two days) (2026)
Mpumalanga Panorama Tour
The Panorama Tour follows the edge of the Draneksberg escarpment and has incredible views over the Lowveld and down the Blyde River Canyon, the biggest green canyon in the world.
The K2C Biosphere project runs 11 projects across the region linking sustainable development with biodiversity conservation, such as protecting areas, conservation, capacity building in local rural communities, water security, invasive plant clearing etc.
Covering 2.6m hectares, on the western border of the iconic Kruger National Park, this biosphere represents only 1.4% of SA's total land surface, but contains nearly 75% of all terrestrial bird species, 80% of all raptor species, 72% of all mammals, 50% of all butterflies and 50% of all frog species found in SA.
Famous tourism hotspots include God's Window, Bourke's Luck Potholes, Pilgrim's Rest, the Three Rondavels, the famous Long Tom Pass, and the Horse Shoe, Lone Creek, Bridal Veil, Berlin, Lisbon and Mac Mac waterfalls.
You can also enjoy spectacular views with the Gorge Lift as you descend to the forest below, or take a walk through a rain forest at the top of the escarpment.
From R2900pp (2025) to R4520 (2026) (only available as an add-on to another Mpumalanga Tour)
Soweto Experience
Hear how apartheid divided the races, and kept communities apart.
Visit the Hector Pietersen Memorial, named for the first police victim on 16 June 1976.
He was just 12 years old.
Nearby, walk down Vilikazi Street, home of two Nobel Peace Prize winners.
Walk through the first home of Winnie and Nelson Mandela.
Have lunch at the most famous eatery and tavern in Soweto.
Tour the Apartheid Museum, a chilling reminder of racial discrimination.
Day Tour only From R3000–R3685 pp (2025)
From R3390–R4070 pp (2026)
Ndebele Cultural Tour
The Ndebele people are world famous for their mural art and beadwork
Your guide, David, has collaborated with Ndebele artistic families for 30+ years
He has made two films and written about Ndebele culture and rituals
Meet artists whose houses are painted in their famous mural style
Shop for original Ndebele roll-up canvases by famous artists or beaded artifacts
Visit a church painted three times inside & out by legendary Francina Ndimande
See the new styles of mural painting that are emerging, compared with the old
Full Day Tour
From R3400–R5500 pppd (2025)
From R3840–R6215 pppd (2026)
Makhonjwa Geo-Trail (World Heritage Site)
Touch some of the oldest rocks in the world in the Makhonjwa Mountains,
Gaze at some of the most breathtaking scenery on the border with eSwatini (formerly
Swaziland, the Mountain Kingdom).
This area is the site of the Barberton Greenstone Belt, one of the world's oldest and most
accessible geological sites. It boasts volcanic and other rock formations dating back
3.8-billion years. Not many people visit it, yet.
At each stop, a different geological formation is described. Illustrated panels show how
inland seas, sediments and volcanos created the landscape we see today.
The Geotrail is part of a new tourism route being developed called the Genesis Route.
Morning, afternoon or full-day picnic excursion FROM Barberton, stopping at each site.
Allow at least six hours for the trail, more if you are serious about geology.
From R2900–4000 pp (2025) (can only be added on to other Mpumalanga Province Tours)
From R3275–4520 pp (2026) (can only be added on to other Mpumalanga Province Tours)
Frank's Movie Camera Museum
Frank Meyburgh is famous in the South African
film industry. His family was involved from the
earliest days, and this charming and
extremely knowledgeable video engineer
runs a top camera rental company and a film
and video archive. His collection of old
cameras, lenses, video cameras and other
memorabilia is unrivalled. Cinephiles or
anyone who wishes to see this
marvellous collection can take a personal trip
to meet Frank and have him show you around.
Morning or afternoon. P.O.A.
Johannesburg Art Tours
Walk Jo'burg's "Art Mile", visiting up to 10 galleries
Talk to curators and participate in walkabouts
On busy days visit the vibrant Maboneng Art Precinct
Shop for genuine artifacts & momentoes
Watch a street craftsman skillfully weave a wire sculpture
Visit the Origins Museum to see Bushman paintings.
Also available are visits to studios to meet artists,
and even to print something yourself!
Day Tour – all inclusive
P.O.A.
