Tues Oct 7 travel day: Toronto 6 pm to Amsterdam 7 am arrival
Wed Oct 8 travel day: Amsterdam 10 am to Cape Town 9 pm, stay at the Portswood www.capetownhotels365.com/portswood-hotel-cape-town
Thur Oct 9 Cape Town tour: city tour, diamond works, Table mountain, and dinner at the Africa Cafe, www.africacafe.co.za then Portswood overnight
Fri Oct 10 bus tour: to Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve, Cape Point, Boulders Beach penguin colony and Kirstenbosch gardens, as well as a boat trip for seal and bird viewing. Lunch at Bertha's, then Portswood Hotel to rest! www.sanbi.org/frams/kirstfram.htm
www.sunsetbeach.co.za/cape_point/cape_of_good_hope_information.htm
Sat Oct 11 wine tour: Paarl and wine tasting, Franschoek, Spier estate, Stellenbosch gardens, then back to the Portswood for the last time.
Sun Oct 12 Leave the area and head east on our bus along the garden route, off to Oudtshoorn and time spent at the Ostrich farm. Apparently we can stand on an egg for pictures, and ride an Ostrich (! will Terry try this one?!?!) Stay at the Queens Hotel in Oudtshoorn
Mon Oct 13 Leave Oudtshoorn, on the bus via the Outeniqua mountain range, town of George lakes area, to the Oyster farm in Knysna. Free time in the afternoon, staying at the Knysna Quays hotel
www.proteahotels.com/protea-hotel-knysna-quays.html
Tues Oct 14 Cruise Knysna lagoon to the featherbed Nature reserve, dinner at the Oyster Co restaurant, staying again at Knysna Quays hotel
Wed Oct 15 Travel day: Leave Knysna, to the Monkeyland Primate Sanctuary, Tzitzikamma forest, Storms River Pass, then on to Port Elizabeth where we fly to Johannesburg and stay at the Balalaika Hotel in Sandton (suburb of Johannesburg) www.balalaika.co.za, maybe a steak for dinner at www.thebullrun.co.za
Thur Oct 16 tour of Johannesburg-Soweto, lunch at Wandies place, then Lesedi tour and pan-African feast, back to the Balalaika Hotel for the night. www.wandies.co.za www.lesedi.com
Fri Oct 17 Tour Pretoria, then drive into Mpumalanga to Hazyview, near Kruger National Park www.thehazyviewhotel.co.za
Sat Oct 18 Drive through Blyde River Canyon, Bourke's luch Potholes, Pilgrim's rest, then to the Kapama River Lodge for an evening game drive and back to the Lodge to sleep (stay there 2 nights) www.kapama.co.za www.sanparks.org/parks/kruger
Sun Oct 19 game drives morning and evening, free time in between
Mon Oct 20 game drive in the morning, then to the airport and fly to Jo'berg, stay overnight at the Metcourt Laurel Hotel near the airport www.metcourt.com/emperorspalace
Tues Oct 21 Fly Jo'burg to Lusaka, then fly Lusaka to Livingstone , stay in the Zambesi Sun Hotel after an evening cruise on the Zambesi River www.island-safari.com/hotels/sun/htm
Wed Oct 22 Tour Victoria Falls, stay again at the Zambesi sun
Thur Oct 23 Free time early, then fly Livingston to Johannesburg, then leave at 11:30 pm to fly home to Canada via Amsterdam
Fri Oct 24 arrive Toronto about 9 pm
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