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Odyssey offers easy, convenient, and relaxed escorted across Southern Africa and beyond. We explore Africa's natural beauty, its heritage, its World Heritage Sites, and famous cities, all with some truly all waiting to be explored on one of Odyssey’s small group .
Odyssey Travellers’ Southern Africa small group tour for mature and senior travellers is an unforgettable, fully escorted 19-day tour of Africa’s southernmost countries designed with the (mature) senior traveller in mind whether as a couple or solo traveller. Travellers will be amazed by southern Africa’s scenic beauty, cultural diversity, and astounding wild life. This historically complex and beautiful region features rich farmland, vast plains, rugged mountains, cosmopolitan cities, and traditional villages
This tour will begin in Cape Point and weave across southern Africa to visit Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe and Livingstone in Zambia, ride through Chobe National Park in Botswana, and end in Johannesburg, South Africa’s largest urban area and its centre of commerce. In this city, travellers will have the option to extend their holiday to Namibia and Madagascar, also with Odyssey Traveller.
Cape Town is a coastal city and the legislative capital of South Africa. It is the oldest urban area in the country, developed in the 17th century as a waystation for ships travelling to the Dutch East Indies (what is now Indonesia) by employees of the Dutch East India Company. Here, we will have a full-day tour of the city and a half-day tour of Cape Point, which provides spectacular sights of stone cliffs, beaches, and rolling valleys.
Highlights of this leg of the tour are the wine farms on the Constantia Wine Route, a drive to the city past famous landmarks, a visit to the Castle of Good Hope, initially a maritime replenishment station and now the seat of the military in the Cape; a revolving cable car ride to Table Mountain (weather permitting) and Signal Hill, and the Company Gardens, a large public park and botanical garden set in the heart of Cape Town.
We visit the Western Cape to stop at the “ostrich capital of the world”, Oudtshoorn. Lying between the mountain ranges of Klein Karroo, Oudtshoorn's rugged scenery makes the perfect backdrop for learning about the history of ostrich farming. In the mid-19th century, ostrich feathers were all the rage and the trendiest fashion accessory a woman could have adorning her hat. Farmers in Oudtshoorn realised that the environment was perfect for raising ostriches and began to capitalise on the trend. Although ostrich plumes are no longer in high demand, ostrich meat has become a popular alternative to red meats like beef and lamb, much like kangaroo and there are many ostrich farms still running today.
In Knysna, we will visit the Featherbed Private Nature Reserve, a pristine piece of paradise situated accessible only by ferry and Monkeyland, the world’s first free-roaming primate sanctuary.
Pretoria is the administrative capital of South Africa. Here we visit the majestic Voortrekker Monument, situated south of Pretoria in a nature reserve; Kruger House, the historical Pretoria residence of the Boer leader and President of the first South African Republic, Paul Kruger, and Kruger National Park, a game reserve with a high density of wild animals, including the “Big 5”: lions, leopards, rhinos, elephants and buffalos.
We will travel out of South Africa to take a tour of Victoria Falls and walk through the rainforest and take a game drive across Chobe National Park in Botswana.
We will return to South Africa, where the tour ends in Johannesburg. Our trip here is focused in the township of Soweto, where we will visit the Walter Sisulu Square in Kliptown, site of the Congress of the People who drew up the Freedom Charter as an alternative to the repressive policies of the then-apartheid state, and visit the present home of Nobel Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the first home of Nelson Mandela in Johannesburg.
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Namibia & Madagascar small group package tours are timetabled to be linked to Odyssey Traveller's Southern Africa tours each year.
To find out more about our optional extension to Namibia, please click here. This tour also links with our Madagascar tour. For more information about Odyssey's Madagascar wildlife small group tour; Lemurs & avenue of Baobabs please follow the highlighted link in the text.
We have several articles about Africa including an article about the history of Madagascar. Other articles of possible interest is this two-part post filled with travelling tips for seniors, an article on the many nifty gizmos and gadgets you can bring on your trips, and an important article about practising responsible travel.
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