Nov. 21 - Drive to JFK Airport - stay overnight at Holiday Inn Express. Nov. 22 - Flight from JFK to Johannesburg via South African Airways. Nov. 23 - Arrive Johannesburg, flight to Cape Town. Check in at Southern Sun Cape Sun Hotel. Nov. 24 - City tour of Cape Town including famous buildings, its "Central Park" and "coloured quarters". Visited the Jewish Museum. Nov. 25 - Visited Table Mountain by cable car, then toured around the southern Cape coastline and visited a penguin colony. Nov. 26 - Went on a wineland countryside tour. Nov. 27 - Flew back to Johannesburg and then Durban. Finished with a 3 hour drive to Emdoneni Lodge and Game Park. Nov. 28 - Visited with cheetahs and other cats at Emdoneni, open safari drive through Hluhluwe Game Reserve, visited Dumazulu Village Nov. 29 - Continued on into the Kingdom of Swaziland and checked in at the Avani Ezulwini Valley Hotel. Nov. 30 - Drove through the countryside of the province of Transvaal to the Kruger National Park, checked in to the Protea Kruger Gate hotel. Dec. 1 - Did an early morning and late afternoon 3 hour safari in an open vehicle through the Kruger National Park. Dec. 2 - Drove through Mpumalanga countryside of densely forested mountains, valleys, rivers and waterfalls. Stopped at Blyde River Canyon and Dec. 3 - Did a tour of Soweto, visited Nelson Mandela's house, visited the Apartheid Museum. Visited Cambanos warehouse for some shopping. Dec. 4 - Went on a lion walk at the Horseback African Safari centre. Flight back to JFK. Dec. 5 - Arrival at JFK. Drove back to Montreal. |