Kruger and Vic Falls

Overview

Kruger and Vic Falls Adventure tour

The Kruger and Vic Falls Adventure tour offers you a comprehensive adventure holiday taking in some of the best highlights between Johannesburg and Victoria Falls. Tried and tested over many years this tour offers incredible value with new and exciting experiences each day, connecting you to the grass roots of Africa. Following your arrival in the City of Gold, (Johannesburg), your epic journey includes breath taking views and a variety of terrain from the bustling of wild animals roaming Kruger & Matobo National Parks, to feeling the wet Zambezi spray off thundering Victoria Falls. This week-long adventure tour allows you to touch and embrace the delights of Africa, leaving you with an everlasting desire to discover more of this diverse continent.

Excludes single supplement. However, if you are happy to share – no single supplement will apply.

Tour price excludes local payment. 

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Kruger & Victoria Falls tour

Included Highlights:

Blyde River Canyon
Kruger NP, Game Drives
Bakone Open Air Cultural Museum
Motobo NP, Nature Drive and Wilderness Walk – half day Victoria Falls Visit
Vic Falls Zambezi Sunset Dinner Cruise

INCLUDED:

1. Tour highlights
2. Transport
3. Accommodation
4. Meals as indicated
5. Services of an English-speaking driver /tour leader.

EXCLUDED:

1. Visas, passport and visa fees
2. Travel insurance
3. Flight departure taxes
4. Airport transfers
5. Optional activities
6. Tips and laundry
7. Gratuities and items of personal nature
8. Drinks
9. Meals not included are purchased ‘en-route’ for lunches, and in restaurants for dinner when in towns. Please ensure you budget for these.

**Prices are subject to change

*2020 Price is per person sharing. Excludes single supplement and any additional activities and meals not set out in the itinerary.

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Pretoria – Hoedspruit
Distance travelled: +/- 460 Km
Approx driving time: 10-11 Hours

Departing from South Africa’s administrative city, Pretoria, we drive across the scenic Mpumalanga province and enjoy the spectacular mountain vistas. We stop at the Blyde River Canyon to view the odd looking Three Rondavels rock formations perched at the edge of the Blyde River Canyon and enjoy the crisp air and picturesque views. The Blyde River Canyon is revered as an unusual sight owing to the fact that it is a ‘wet’ canyon, making it different from the wind-carved dry canyons found in desert regions elsewhere. After lunch we continue our journey making our way to accommodations, set in attractive gardens situated an hour or so drive from Kruger National Park. After dinner relax and enjoy the first night on tour.

Hoedspruit – Kruger National Park
Approx driving time: Full day with game drives

Waking early, we board 4×4 game viewing vehicles for an intense but rewarding day in Kruger National Park. Your professional guide will point out items or interest as we go, and we hope will help the day to be a wonderful opportunity to learn something of the varied and world-renowned Kruger. The park is home to over 505 species of birds and 148 species of mammals as well as good numbers of reptiles and abundant flora. The park has a good network of roads allowing relatively easy access – essential given its size – but has clear rules about encroaching on the animals’ space ensuring conservation is given a high priority, which perhaps helps explain why Kruger is held in such high regard amongst travellers worldwide. We game drive morning and afternoon with a break during the middle of the day to enjoy the peace of the rest camp and wait out the hottest part of the day (when wildlife is usually less active). If you have questions about the wildlife you see, or about the park itself, please ask your resident guide who will be happy to explain the ins and outs of animal behaviour and other interesting sights in Kruger. Eventually we leave the park to return to our accommodation for dinner and overnight.

Hoedspruit – Polokwane
Distance travelled: +/- 320 Km
Approx driving time: 7-8 Hours

After breakfast we leave the Kruger area and travel across undulating country-side to the northern town of Polokwane. The journey takes us over some beautiful scenic mountain passes and through flourishing citrus plantations of nestled along the valleys of the Limpopo Province. Previously known as the Northern Province, this is a land of myths and legends and is also highly rated as a southern Africa Eco-tourism destination. Arriving in Polokwane, we enter the nearby Game Reserve and set out on foot to explore (we recommend sensible footwear). There are over 21 species of mammals, in this reserve including white rhino and some 200 species of birds. It is a very different game viewing experience to Kruger equally rewarding. Being on foot may allow us closer views of some of the gentler animals of the reserve. We eventually make our way to our accommodations nearby.

Polokwane – Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
Distance travelled: +/- 600 Km
Approx driving time: 10 Hours

This morning we make our way north crossing out of South Africa and into Zimbabwe. Immigration formalities at the busy Beitbridge border may be lengthy as this is South Africa’s busiest land border, but once completed we continue to Bulawayo, a pleasant city with broad tree lined avenues and wide-open spaces. The area around the city offers much in the way of historical, geological and natural interest. Several national parks are nearby including the well-known Matobo (sometimes written Matopos) which we shall visit. Our accommodation for the evening is in a quiet garden setting on the outskirts of town.

Matobo National Park is located a short distance outside Bulawayo and knowledgeable guides will take us to this very impressive park. This reserve has the largest concentration of Black and White Rhino in Africa and, provided conditions are right, our guides will lead us on foot to some of the more concealed places in search of these magnificent animals. The park also has the densest population of leopard and black eagle in the world and we keep our eyes peeled high and low for these creatures. This half day tour will end after the walk and a vehicle will transfer you back to the camp for an afternoon at leisure.

Bulawayo – Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
Distance travelled: +/- 450 Km
Approx driving time: 8 Hours

Departing Bulawayo, we continue north to Victoria Falls. We usually arrive to Victoria Falls by early afternoon. This is a relatively small town built along the southern banks of the Zambezi River and is Zimbabwe’s primary tourist centre. The Victoria Falls themselves are only a short walk and the town has a variety of markets, shops, cafes within easy distance. Your tour leader will arrange a briefing to explain the numerous optional excursions typically available here.

We end our day joining a peaceful sunset dinner cruise on the Zambezi River. Soak up the African ambience with drink in hand as you cruise slowly up and down and look out for elephant, buffalo, buck, hippo and birdlife along the shallow muddy banks of one of Africa’s great rivers. We return to our accommodation for overnight or to try some of the local nightlife.

This morning, we visit the Victoria Falls National Park itself to witness one of Africa’s most enduring sights. Please take care when wandering along the pathways inside the reserve – the Falls are almost 100 metres deep and the drops are sheer!

Your tour ends after the falls visit. We do, however, recommend that spend a few extra days to explore the Victoria Falls area. The Zambezi boasts one of the world’s highest rated rivers for pure white river rafting through its many challenging and novice rapids. From game walks, Micro-light flight or whitewater rafting to name a few, Victoria Falls will capture and fulfil your imagination, validating the myths of the African spirit.