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Post-conference tours

All the listed post-conference itineraries have been scheduled to depart Cape Town on 11th October. If you would like to extend your time in South Africa with different dates, or indeed following a different itinerary from those listed, please let "Spirit of Africa" know when making your enquiry and they will do their very best to accommodate all such requests.

Post-Conference Short Adventures & Day Tours

Full details short tours ( Adobe PDF)

Longer tours

Full details 6-day tour ( Adobe PDF)

All Bookings will need to be confirmed and paid for by 29 August. The bookings will be billed directly, plus a 5% bank fee.

For all bookings and enquiries, contact:

Mr. Mabwe Gwamure
Destination Management Company "Spirit of Africa"
12 Roosevelt Street,
Claremont
Cape Town
South Africa

Tel. +27 21 6745180
Fax. +27 671 4192
Mob. +27 76 882 0791
Email operations@spiritofafrica.co.za
www.spiritofafrica.co.za


Post-Conference Short Adventures & Day Tours

Outlined programmes are listed below.

  •  These rates all include VAT, tourism levy and accommodation with breakfast.
  •  1 lunch including gratuity & 1 drink
  •  Transport to destination
  •  Airport transfer on Day 3
  •  Porterage at hotel

Half-day Robben Island Tour
Robben Island
Robben Island, once described by Nelson Mandela as "the harshest, most iron-fisted outpost in the South African penal system", has become an international symbol of the triumph of the human spirit. Over the years, the 574-hectare island has been put to a variety of uses, it has been used as a pantry, a hospital, a whaling station, a mental asylum, a leprosy colony, a military camp and a maximum security prison to house anti-apartheid activists. Today Robben Island is a living museum and World Heritage Site, a tangible reminder of the past and a symbol of hope for the future.

Full-day Peninsula Tour
Cape PointCape Town Boulders BeachCape Town Kirstenbosch
The 75-mile trip around the Cape Peninsula, a sliver of land formed by the Table Mountain range rising from the midst of the Indian and Atlantic Oceans, offers the visitor a spectacular journey of beaches, mountains and nature reserves, interspersed with quaint towns and harbours in-between. At the Apex of the Journey you will visit Cape Point - the south western most point of Africa. The waters below the lighthouse marking this most treacherous of coastlines, is where legend has it that the Indian and the Atlantic Oceans meet. You will also visit Hout Bay, travel along the world renowned Chapmans Peak, visit Simons Town (the South African navy's main port), stop at Boulders Beach that is home to one of the only land-based breeding colony of the rare and protected African penguin and round the day off at Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens, one of the most beautiful national gardens in the world.

3-day Franschoek Tour
Le Franschoek
Franschoek valley
Day 1 Coach departs for Franschoek; Visit to Solms Delta and Music van de Caab project & the Museum van de Caab
Day 2 Leisure Day. Suggested activities: Franschoek Wine Tram, Franschoek Motor Museum
Day 3 Morning at leisure. Transfer to Cape Town

3-day Stellenbosch Tour
Stellenbosch & gablesDorpshuis
Day 1 Dorpshuis; visit to Solms Delta and Music van de Caab project & the Museum van de Caab
Day 2 Leisure Day. Suggested activities: view contemporay Art at the SMAC Gallery, winelands tour
Day 3 Morning at leisure; Check-out & Transfer to Cape Town

3-day Hermanus Tour
Quarters HermanusSouthern Right Whales in Hermanus
Day 1 Coach departs. Visit to Solms Delta and Music van de Caab project & the Museum van de Caab
Day 2 Leisure Day. Suggested activities:  Whale-watching cruise - Visit The Museum in the Old Harbour - Hermanus Wine Route Tour
Day 3 Morning at leisure. Check-out. Transfer to Cape Town

 


Longer tours

Post-conference tour to the Eastern Cape to visit the National Heritage and Cultural Studies Centre (NAHECS) at the University of Fort Hare in Alice & the International Library of African Music in Grahamstown, scheduled to depart on Saturday 11th October and complete the return journey to Cape Town on Thursday 16th October.

Journey through parts of the Western and Eastern Cape on a route through wineries, olive farms, small towns, museums, mountain passes and some truly spectacular scenery!

6-day trip to Eastern Cape
Addo elephantsroad to montaguTsitsikamma coast
KnysnaOstrichesOudtshoorn
CalitzdorpGrahamstownmountain scenery

Route: Cape Town - Montagu - Oudtshoorn- Addo - Grahamstown - Storms River

Day 1 Visit to Solms Delta and Music van de Caab project & the Museum van de Caab. Montagu: Mimosa Lodge
Day 2 Transfer to Oudtshoorn (approx 3 hours). Stop in Calitzdorp for lunch. Surval Boutique Olive Estate, Oudtshoorn
Day 3 Transfer to Port Elizabeth - Possible Museum visit with Prof Thram. Transfer to Addo National Game Reserve;  6pm Sundowner game drive (2 hours); Addo Elephant National Park, Forest Huts
Day 4 6am Early morning game drive; Transfer to Alice (3.5 hours); Visit National Heritage and Cultural Studies Centre (NAHECS) at the University of Fort Hare in Alice; Transfer to Grahamstown; Victoria Mews Hotel, Grahamstown
Day 5 Visit to the International Library of African Music; Transfer to Tsitsikamma Forest (approx 5 hours); Tsitsikamma Village Inn
Day 6 Transfer to Knysna; Transfer to Cape Town (approx 5.5 hours)