African Wildlife Experience - South Africa Tours, Safari
African Wildlife Experience
Highlights include a visit to a Zulu Village, game viewing in the Hluhluwe-Umfolozi Game Reserve including a night drive and a boat cruise on St Lucia Lake.
Tour Code: SCDW
Depart From: Durban
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Duration: 3 Days
Country:
South Africa
Departures: Daily
Type: Safari | |
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Tour Description
Northern KwaZulu-Natal has arguably the greatest diversity of habitats in South Africa. These include open bushveld, coastal dune forests, lakes, rivers, mangrove forests, subtropical marsh-lands and a magnificent coastline with endless, and in some areas completely deserted, sandy beaches.
The animals found here range from the 'Big Five' to the shy nyala and the tiny suni as well as prolific bird life. Hluhluwe-Umfolozi Park is not only the oldest reserve in Africa, but also the place where the white rhino was saved from extinction.
Today the park is the third largest in South Africa and the only reserve where you are virtually assured of good rhino sightings.
The region is also the home of the mighty Zulus and we get some insight into their age-old culture when we visit an authentic Zulu village.
The last day, after a final game drive, we visit the famous lake St Lucia, now proclaimed a world heritage site. We join a boat cruise on the lake and see a proliferation of birdlife, crocodile and hippo in their natural habitat.
ROUTING: Durban - Zulu Village - Hluhluwe-Umfolozi - St Lucia.
PLEASE NOTE: This is a malaria area and anti malaria precautions are neccessary.
Bring along some sun block and insect repellant.
Dress Requirements: Comfortable casual and
smart casual for the evenings, warm windbreakers/jackets for the night game drives in the open vehicle.
Itinerary
Day 1
We travel north through sugar cane fields towards the subtropical coast and bushveld of Zululand.
We visit a Zulu village for a cultural experience. We visit the Sangoma (a diviner also erroneously called the 'Witch doctor') and treated to some authentic tribal dancing.
After lunch we depart for Hluhluwe-Umfolozi Park where our close encounter with the African wildlife begins.
We reach Hilltop Camp for dinner and overnight in the chalet type accommodation. (Dinner)
Day 2
An early morning rise to join an open vehicle game drive in search of the animals and return for breakfast. The rest of the day we spend the day game viewing through the reserve in our vehicle with your guide.
Return late afternoon to the camp for an early dinner before departing in an open vehicle on a night game drive using powerful spotlights to find the elusive nocturnal animals.
We return late evening, after an unforgettable experience, for a well-deserved rest at Hilltop Camp in the reserve. (Breakfast & Dinner)
Day 3
After an early breakfast we have on a last exciting game drive before we leave the reserve for a boat cruise on the famous Lake St Lucia (proclaimed a World Heritage Site in December 1999), a natural paradise around which five complete ecosystems exist with an abundance of bird life, hippo and crocodiles.
After this experience we return to Durban where we arrive late afternoon. (Breakfast)
Tour Include
Accommodation, meals as indicated, guide and entry fees.
Tour Exclude
Items of a personal nature.
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