Edition 33: Winter 2005/6
Virgin Holidays has issued its first ever dedicated southern Africa brochure. It features destinations including South Africa, Zambia, Botswana, Namibia, Seychelles and Mauritius, and there’s an option to create your own itinerary including visits to more than one country.
Prices start at £689 per person for a week’s fly-drive to Johannesburg,
including Virgin Atlantic flights from London and car hire. A
five-night bed and breakfast package to Cape Town from London starts at
£819.
www.virginholidays.com
Southern Africa Travel has launched a new series of Born Free holidays
in association with the Born Free Foundation. Guests will have the
chance to spend time at South Africa’s two Born Free Rescue Centres,
possibly witnessing the arrival of big cats as part of the centre’s
ongoing research and rehabilitation programmes. The Bushman Sands Born
Free Holiday combines five nights at the Bushman Sands in Alicedale
with visits to the newly opened Jean Byrd Education and Rescue Centre,
nearby Shamwari Game Reserve and Addo National Park. Departs 16 April
2006, priced from £1285 per person including return flights to Port
Elizabeth and transfers. The Zambia and South Africa Born Free Holiday
gives visitors the chance to see the Victoria Falls, canoe down the
Zambezi and take an excursion into Botswana during three nights at the
Zambezi Sun. Following a flight to Port Elizabeth, the holiday moves
onto Shamwari Game Reserve, with visits to the Shamwari Born Free
Centre. Departs 1 September 2006, priced from £1867 per person
including all flights and transfers. The Classic South Africa Born Free
Holiday is a once-in-a-lifetime holiday that starts with three nights
at the 5-star Radisson, Cape Town, including a township tour and a
visit to Robben Island. This will be followed by three nights at Lake
Pleasant on the Garden Route with a whale-watching ocean safari, then
two nights at Shamwari Game Reserve for two nights. Departs 14
September 2006, priced from £1770 per person including all flights and
transfers.
www.southernafricantravel.com
Wildlife Worldwide are offering five-night trips to the recently opened
Ntwala Island Lodge, Namibia, at the special inaugural rate of £1995
per person including BA flights from London to Livingstone via Jo’burg,
light aircraft transfers with a scenic flight over Vic Falls, full
board and guided wildlife viewing. Ntwala is an ultra-luxurious,
low-impact lodge catering for just eight guests in four safari suites,
each with private plunge pools, and each having exclusive use of a boat
and guide. The lodge is situated in Namibia’s Caprivi Strip, close to
Chobe National Park. Special rate available until 31 March 2006. Other
current offers from Wildlife Worldwide include a 20% discount on
eight-night holidays in Zambia’s North and South Luangwa National Parks
and special launch rates at Luangwa Safari House from January to March
2006. www.wildlifeworldwide.com
UK-based tour operator Okavango Tours and Safaris has launched a new
five-night ‘taster’ Zambian safari holiday. Guests will stay in the
Lower Zambezi National Park at Sausage Tree Camp. This camp, designed
in ‘bush-chic’ style, has Bedouin-inspired tents with four-posters and
a spectacular new swimming pool on the banks of the Zambezi, offering
swimmers great views over the river, floodplains and islands with the
chance to spot hippo, buffalo and elephant. From £1782 per person per
night including BA flights from London to Lusaka and all transfers.
www.okavango.com
Peregrine Adventures is offering a 12-day Gabon Wildlife Expedition in
September 2006. The tour of this little-visited but wildlife-rich West
African country will include trips to the Evengue Gorilla Research
Programme, a humpback whale research station, the Operation Loango
primate anti-poaching post and a gorilla and chimpanzee project in the
Parc National de Petit Loango. From £3355 per person.
www.peregrineadventures.co.uk |
