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Connoisseurs Experience

The 2018 Connoisseurs Experience includes 17 unique itineraries centred around exotic destinations, authentic events, local festivals, wilderness and wildlife, and unique cultural encounters. As always, our Connoisseurs Experience features boutique, superior or deluxe accommodations, comprehensive sightseeing and special visits. Many of these departures are accompanied and escorted by our own or affiliated experts, bringing in profound depth of knowledge and unique insights to enhance your travel experience. This is not just a tour, it is an intimate and personal experience

The 2018 Connoisseurs Experience includes 17 unique itineraries centred around exotic destinations, authentic events, local festivals, wilderness and wildlife, and unique cultural encounters.
As always, our Connoisseurs Experience features boutique, superior or deluxe accommodations, comprehensive sightseeing and special visits.
Many of these departures are accompanied and escorted by our own or affiliated experts,
bringing in profound depth of knowledge and unique insights to enhance your travel experience.
This is not just a tour, it is an intimate and personal experience

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South Africa Revealed<br />

South Africa is more than scenery and wildlife. Its vital cultural diversity and the historical<br />

merging of local tribes and immigrants carve out the land under the bright African sun.<br />

South Africa is known globally because of Mandela.<br />

Although the racial problem is still the most sensitive<br />

point of the local pain, surprisingly, this county has<br />

turned in the past decades, step by step into one of the<br />

world’s top travel destination for lovers of wine, food,<br />

wildlife and much more.<br />

This trip takes you to experience the diverse threads of<br />

South Africa’s history, an animal kingdom of enormous<br />

diversity, the birthplace of mankind’s earliest ancestors,<br />

the meeting place of two great oceans, and the juxtaposition<br />

of transplanted European values and indigenous<br />

tribal norms.<br />

Begin in cosmopolitan Cape Town. Ascend flat-topped Table Mountain for breathtaking panoramic views<br />

and cruise to historic Robben Island, site of Nelson Mandela’s incarceration. Admire the natural beauty of<br />

Cape Point and the Kirstenbosch Gardens, drive along one of the world’s most scenic coastal routes to the<br />

Cape of Good Hope, and observe the African penguin colony at Boulders Beach.<br />

Travel to the Cape Winelands and stay in the quaint town surrounded by vast and enormous mountain<br />

ranges. In this food and wine heartland of the country, tantalise your taste buds with wine tastings and<br />

top chefs created international cuisines with breathtaking scenery as a backdrop.<br />

No trip to southern Africa would be complete without a safari in its greatest parks and game reserves.<br />

View game in the Kapama Private Game Reserve, bordering the world renowned Kruger National Park,<br />

where you can see the Big Five - lion, elephant, rhinoceros, Cape buffalo and leopard - as well as zebra,<br />

giraffe, kudu and over 40 other mammal species and 350 different types of birds.<br />

Conclude in Johannesburg, or Joburg as it is often<br />

called, one of Africa’s largest and most vibrant<br />

cities. The old town is a blend of multiculturalism<br />

where traditional medicine stores, Chinese<br />

restaurants, taxis and ultra-modern skyscrapers<br />

coexist. Explore Soweto, built in the 1950s by the<br />

apartheid authorities as a residential area for<br />

immigrant black workers and visit the Apartheid<br />

Museum.<br />

We will also visit the Cradle of Humankind, a<br />

paleoanthropological and World Heritage site,<br />

where a new species of hominini was recently<br />

discovered.<br />

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