Magical Africa 9 days

Welcome in South Africa! Are You Ready!

Nature, culture and wildlife individual private tour the magic of Africa in 9 days. With private guide. Please note! this is almost more of an expedition than a tour. The real Africa and in many places untouched, undisturbed as it was a thousand years ago.

Stay in a perfect mix of accommodations in the most beautiful locations. Service and style in African style. Enormously hospitable with a very high level of service. Sophisticated and atmospheric. “Out of Africa”

Traveling with your own private guide gives an extra dimension. What could be better than not having to drive yourself. All the stories, the knowledge and the special features make a tour like this extra special and special.

Arrive at Johannesburg OR Tambo International Airport. You will be met with a meet and greet from the airport arrivals hall if you come by aero plane. Your first night here in South Africa will be in a Guest Lodge near the airport. The next morning you will depart from here for your safari journey to the untouched wilderness of South Africa.

After breakfast we leave and you go to the wild north of South Africa. The goal today is the Marakele National Park also called the water Bergen. Deep in the Limpopo province this beautiful and relatively unknown game park is a hidden germ.

This game park will be the first introduction for you to the Big 5 in its natural environment. Marakele is mainly known for the pink mountains that tower over everything and the largest vulture colony in the world that is located there.

Very beautiful and very interesting. Limpopo is a very beautiful and large province. The image that many people have of Africa with savannahs, bush roughness full of wildlife is largely based on this province.

Today you will be treated to a Big 5 Safari in an open safari vehicle in Marakele National Park. Together with a ranger from the park you will go in search of the big 5 and explore this unexpectedly beautiful area.

But before the safari with the local ranger we will first visit the park together with you. We will explore the park and go all the way up the Kransberg. With a little luck you will see the vulture colony on top of the Kransberg.

It is wonderful to stay in this quiet and not known to the masses wildlife reserve. Undisturbed and very beautiful wildlife park. Enjoyment at its best.

Today you will go to the desolate border area of ​​South Africa, Zimbabwe and Botswana. Only separated by the mighty Limpopo River. This is what you come for!!!

Mapungubwe National Park is an experience in itself. This is the most pristine and desolate part of South Africa. This is also Big 5 territory.

Rough, pristine and undisturbed Africa. Mapungubwe is our favorite place in South Africa. It has something magical and enchanting. It is not for nothing that one of the first ancient African kingdoms was established here.

Hundreds of years ago the Kingdom of Mapungubwe was lost but the atmosphere of ancient Africa is still very clearly felt here.

The smell of the bush is like a perfume that lingers and is of unparalleled beauty.

We will explore the park and among other things visit the site of the old lost kingdom of Mapungubwe. We will also visit the Limpopo River that more or less divides the park with the parks in Botswana and Zimbabwe.

Great chance of very large herds of Elephants. The views of this primeval African environment are a feast for the eyes. Completely Out of Africa.

If you feel like it, you can visit the Mapungubwe museum. If you have the time, do not skip it. Very interesting to discover the ancient history of Africa at the time when we as Europeans were still in the dark Middle Ages. At that time, trade was already conducted here with the East and parts of Asia.

The awakening of the untouched nature in Africa is the most beautiful experience there is. Get up as early as possible and see the sun rise and the day animals wake up while the nocturnal animals go to sleep.

You leave Thaba Bolayi Private Nature Reserve early and travel via the northern border of South Africa with Zimbabwe to the far north of the Kruger Park.

The so-called Pafuri area. We enter the Kruger Park at Pafuri Gate, the northernmost gate of the Kruger Park. The Pafuri area is the region of the Kruger Park where you can still find animals that are almost absent elsewhere. Such as Sable Antelopes, Tsetsebee and the largest concentration of different birds in the Kruger Park.

Overnight stay in the middle of the Kruger National Park! This is also Baobab country. Many old large Baobabs that adorn the landscape.

You leave the Kruger Park at Phalaborwa Gate and have had a great day of travel right through the Kruger Park. All facets of the South African savannah pass by. Very beautiful drive and very worthwhile. A full safari day in itself. We also show you our favorite places in the Kruger Park.

You are on your way to the Blyde River Canyon today and you will see the mountains of the Northern Drakensberg slowly looming before you. The Blyde River Canyon is the third largest canyon in the world where we will make several stops.

The world famous panorama route and the Blyde River Canyon. A must see

You will see, among other things, the three rondavels, Burke's Luck potholes, Gods Window and the Lisbon Falls. Somewhere in the afternoon we will arrive in Graskop where you can eat pancakes if you want in the most famous pancake house in the world (Harry's Pancakes) After Graskop we descend again to the lowveld and go to the overnight stay in Hoedspruit area.

During the return journey you will see a glimpse of the life of the African people of today. We drive through one of the largest homelands of South Africa. You will not know where to look today!

The last day has arrived and you leave Hoedspruit area and the savannah and we head back to Johannesburg airport. From the lowveld back to the Highveld. To the high plateau of Johannesburg. Where you will arrive between 4 and 5 in the afternoon.