Wildlife, Art and History in Africa

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Overview

Traveling with your teen can be exciting and some of your most precious memories. As they discover their own voices, talents and independent forms of expression share an adventure with them.

This tour is approved, by children 6-15, as perfect for your teen! It presents young adults with opportunities to investigate more complex interests, be that worldwide art, wilderness or challenging themselves physically.

In this 10-day itinerary, you will get to experience both city and rural areas of Africa. See the wilderness in a different way and see how those animals interact with each other in their natural habitat. Further you will see the natural beauty of Victoria Falls.

Itinerary

Day 1


Arrives Johannesburg

Arrival in Johannesburg is made easy by having a representative meet you at your aircraft and escort you through customs and immigration. Your representative will then take you to your hotel within the city.

Day 2


Explore Johannesburg

Johannesburg is a city of much history and with a creative flair. Today you will take a tour of the city and visit the cities creative spots on a graffiti tour and learn the history of the city at the Apartheid Museum.

Not to be forgotten, lunch will be in the Maboneng neighborhood. A vibrant neighborhoods in downtown Johannesburg.

Day 3


Makgadikgadi Pans National Park, Botswana

After enjoying your hotel breakfast, meet your representative who will take you to the airport. You will travel to Maun and met another representative at the airport to help you with clearing immigration and customs. A transfer via road will see you arrive at your camp.

At your old-style safari camp you can find crocodiles lounging on the river banks and other wildlife drinking along the river.

Day 4


Makgadikgadi Pans National Park

From your Safari camp you have access to the Makgadikgadi Pans National Park which contains two reserves. Here you can view desert-adapted meerkats and antelopes as well as lions and cheetahs. During the months of November and December you will see the largest Zebra migration. these Zebra migrate over 480kms from Namibia to Botswana in search of fresh grazing.

Day 5


Makgadikgadi Pans National Park

Your wildlife viewing will continue today with the opportunity to get on the river and view wildlife from a different perspective. Here, too, your family can also gain an anthropological glimpse at an ancient but still vibrant culture of the Bushmen of the Kalahari, who provide amazing insights and stories about their culture, the area’s native plants and spectacular wildlife

Day 6


Okavango Delta

This morning enjoy an early game drive for your final viewing of the wildlife here. Once back, get transferred to the Maun Airport for your flight to a camp in the Okavango Delta. Your 12-tented camp is located in the Moremi Game Reserve and will provide an amazing opportunity to view elephant, buffalo, hyena, giraffe, hippo, wildebeest, kudu, lechwe, lion and leopard. There are also a plethora of birds to view in this location.

Day 7


Okavango Delta

Today you will be able to take safari by either open top 4x4 or exploring nearby lagoons and waterways by powerboat.

Day 8


Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe

A morning safari is enjoyed before having breakfast and transferring to the airport for a charter flight to Kasane. Here you will be met by a respresentative who will take you to your accommodation alongside the Zambezi gorge. The accommodation allows for sweeping views over the grasslands, the dramatic gorges and the misty spray of Victoria Falls. While here you have the opportunity to visit and understand the conservation work being done by the Victoria Falls Wildlife Trust (VFWT).

Day 9


Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe

What you decide to do today is your own. The accommodation staff will help you to decide based on what is most suitable for your family. You may choose to see the falls from the air and participate in a helicopter flight, or be more adventures with white-water rafting or jet boating.

Day 10


Depart Victoria Falls

After some morning fun, you will be transferred to the Victoria Falls airport in time for your flight back to Johannesburg where you can connect with your international flight.

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