The tour combines some of the best wildlife and wilderness areas of South Africa, blended with the rugged beauty of the mountainous Kingdom of Swaziland, so synonymous with the African continent and then onto the diverse Kwa-Zulu Natal with its multiple habitats of the Lebombo Mountains, the waterways of the Pongola Dam and the estuary of St Lucia with it’s inland salt lake filled with crocodiles and Hippos with it’s Mangrove Swamps and sub-tropical vegetation, the dunes forests and the sea with the most beautiful beaches.

We start the tour travelling along the Mpumalanga plateau, through the Drakensberg’s mountains and valleys, waterfalls and man-made forests. We view the Blyde River Canyon with the beautiful Panorama and its spectacular views, travelling through the Abel Erasmus pass and onto the Lowveld with its warm sub-tropical climate.

We spend our first night in a private lodge, Mohlabetsi in Balule, part of the Greater Kruger National Park Here we will enjoy the sunset open vehicle game drives with powerful spotlights in search of the nocturnal animals. We enjoy the ‘cordon bleau’ dinner in the ‘Boma’ around the warmth of the ‘Firelight’.

We overnight in the Kruger National Park and the Hluhluwe-Umfolosi Park in Kwa-Zulu Natal, which compliment each other in terms of habitat and wildlife.

This tour will begin to unveil some of the mystique that abounds in Africa.

‘Let Africa light the fire in your heart.’

Basic Tour Itinerary

Day One
• Collection from OR Tambo Airport (JHB) or any destination within the Greater Johannesburg/Pretoria area.
• Lunch en route to the Greater Kruger Park.
• We check into our camp, Mohlabatsi Game Lodge for our first overnight stay in the Kruger.
• Open vehicle game drive at sunset.
• Retire to our lodging, prepare for a ‘Boma’ dinner around a camp fire and a good nights rest.

Day Two
• Sunrise tea, coffee & biscuits
• Open vehicle early morning game drive.
• Delicious Breakfast.
• A farewell to Mohlabetsi and we enter Kruger National Park.
• A luncheon stop and time to rest.
• An afternoon game drive
• Our own BBQ, with Dinner served at the chalet
• Evening open vehicle game drive

Day Three
• Sunrise tea, coffee & biscuits.
• Our early morning game drive.
• Delicious breakfast
• Exit the Park at Malelane en route to the border post – Matsamo/Jeppe’s Reef and we enter the Kingdom of Swaziland.
• We stop for Lunch on our way to Mbabane, the capital of Swaziland and the Ezulwini Valley.
• There are a number of things to do in Swaziland which include the Ngwenya Glass factory, Swazi Candle factory in Malkerns, Royal Swazi Spa, the Curio Market in Ezulwini, we drive past the Parliament buildings, and visit the King Subuza memorial, and pass the Royal Kraal of the King at Lobamba.
• We retire to our hotel, Foresters Arms in the quite Mhlambanyatsi highlands for a great dinner and some well-earned rest.

Day Four
• We rise at 07h00 and have breakfast in the dining room, check out and head for Manzini the commercial capital of Swaziland, if time permits we walk the people’s market for a view of daily life here.
• We take the road past Big Bend and exit Swaziland via the Lavumisa/Golela border post.
• We pass Pongola and the Pongola Dam on route down to N2 to our next overnight stop inside the Hluhluwe-Umfolosi Nature Reserve.
• After about a 2 hour game drive inside this beautiful reserve we reach our camp at Hilltop.
• We have dinner and retire.

Day Five
• We rise at dawn to tea, coffee & biscuits.
• We take an ‘open vehicle’ game drive with the park rangers, this is the famous Rhino reserve.
• We return to the camp for breakfast, check out of the camp and the reserve and head for St. Lucia.
• We have a 2 hour boat cruise on this marine estuary and view the Mangrove Swamps, we will also see large hippos and crocodiles that live here.
• We have our lunch and then head for Durban and the end of our tour.