• 6:00 PM – Arrive at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX).
• Arriving early for your departure allows time for you to relax prior to takeoff. We can arrange flights from other cities.
• 9:05 PM – Depart LAX on British Airways Flight # BA0268.
• 3:25 PM (Monday, January 28, 2019) – Arrive London Heathrow Airport (LHR).
• 6:10 PM (Monday, January 28, 2019) – Depart London Heathrow Airport (LHR) on British Airways Flight # BA0043.

• 7:45 PM – Arrive Cape Town Int’l Airport (CPT) where we will be shuttled to the 5-Star Westin Hotel in Cape Town.
• Remainder of the day at leisure. Welcome dinner at a local restaurant.
• Accommodation: Westin Hotel Cape Town

After breakfast at the hotel you will depart on a full day Cape Peninsula and Table Mountain Tour. Take the cable car to top of Table Mountain to witness spectacular views of Cape Town. Experience unforgettable sweeping views of “the fairest Cape in the whole circumference of the world”. Weather permitting, enjoy visibility over some 70km and take a close look at the city below through numerous telescopes.

Descend from the Upper Cableway station to an awaiting vehicle and then you will travel along the Atlantic Seaboard, to Hout Bay. From Hout Bay, travel to Noordhoek and through Ou Kaapse Weg. Proceed to the Cape Point Nature Reserve, where you are able to ride the Funicular to the viewpoint where the Indian and Atlantic Oceans meet. The Cape Peninsula is the thin finger of land in the south-western most corner of Africa with the city of Cape Town at its head.

As you travel south towards Cape Point and the Cape of Good Hope, the land gets narrower until the great Indian and Atlantic Oceans combine into one vast southern ocean, with nothing beyond except Antarctica. On leaving the Nature Reserve, proceed to Simonstown, for a short stop at Boulders Beach. Nestled in historic Simonstown in South Africa, Boulders Penguin Colony is part of the Cape Peninsula National Park. Almost 3000 African (jackass) penguins, so called because their call resembles the bray of a donkey, reign supreme amidst rounded rocks and fish-filled False Bay. These endangered, flightless birds are free to roam the seas and return to their private haven – Foxy Beach at Boulders.

• Accommodation: Westin Hotel Cape Town

After breakfast you will make your way to the ferry that transports you to Robben Island for a morning tour. For nearly 400 years, Robben Island, 12 kilometers from Cape Town, was a place of banishment, exile, isolation and imprisonment. It was here that rulers sent those they regarded as political troublemakers, social outcasts and the unwanted of society.

During the apartheid years Robben Island became internationally known for its institutional brutality. The duty of those who ran the Island and its prison was to isolate opponents of apartheid and to crush their morale. Some freedom fighters spent more than a quarter of a century in prison for their beliefs.

Those imprisoned on the Island succeeded on a psychological and political level in turning a prison ‘hell-hole’ into a symbol of freedom and personal liberation. Robben Island came to symbolize, not only for South Africa and the African continent, but also for the entire world, the triumph of the human spirit over enormous hardship and adversity. Today, you will be escorted around the island by an ex-political prisoner, and given insight into the past and how the human spirit triumphs. Dinner will be at the African Café where you will enjoy authentic dining, dancing, singing and face painting.

• Accommodation: Westin Hotel Cape Town

After breakfast, you will be transferred from your hotel to Cape Town Airport for your domestic flight to Johannesburg’s or Tambo International Airport.

The renowned Michelangelo Hotel is a 5-star hotel located on Sandton’s Nelson Mandela Square in Johannesburg, with easy access to Africa’s finest shops, restaurants, cinemas and theatres. The Michelangelo is a proud member of the ‘Leading Hotels of the World’. The hotel is built in Renaissance style and offers luxurious accommodation in large and comfortable rooms. All rooms have hairdryers, radio, color TV, pay movie channel, 24-hour CNN and CNBC, Internet, complimentary tea & coffee, mini bar and electric cafes.

• Accommodation: Michelangelo Hotel

After breakfast you will be taken on a full day Journey to Freedom Tour.

Many South Africans gave much; some gave all, to achieve a truly democratic South Africa. Come with us on this full day tour which shares some of the journey, pain and struggle of those heroes; witness the places, experience the diverse museums where these momentous, tumultuous years have been so well documented.

Your day begins at the Hector Pieterson Museum, where we start to unravel the cause of the devastating riots, before travelling past Mandela House, where you have the option of visiting this small museum (own account).

Your next significant stop is the fascinating Regina Mundi Church, site of so many of the underground meetings of the then banned political parties. Standing in here, you can feel the tension; picture the intensity, the strain on the faces of those unthinkably brave souls, committed at any cost to changing the way of life of a nation. You’ll have lunch in Soweto at a local restaurant (included). Then visit the legendary Apartheid Museum. This is an interactive voyage of discovery, one which takes you from the dark days of ‘whites only’ privilege, through to Nelson Mandela’s historic release.

The Apartheid Museum is a multimedia experience, with documentary film snippets, texts, sound clips and live accounts, recapturing life in the dark days of South Africa. It’s a fascinating tour, filled with tales of bravery and sadness, but ultimately, it’s a story with the right ending.

• Accommodation: Michelangelo Hotel

Today you will have at leisure. You may take the opportunity to shop at the many upscale and interesting stores or relax at the hotel.

Today you will be transferred from your hotel to Johannesburg Airport for your scheduled flight to Hoedspruit Airport where you will be met and transferred to Kapama Lodge where you will spend 3-nights including all meals and daily game drives.

Within the expansive Kapama Private Game Reserve, River Lodge epitomises five-star safari accommodation. The majestic northern Drakensberg mountains form the backdrop to the 64-suite River Lodge, which is positioned along a bend of the seasonal Kapama River. It’s the largest luxury game lodge in the Greater Kruger National Park area, and is stylishly furnished to ensure an unforgettable African safari experience.

• Accommodation: Kapama River Lodge

Enjoy both morning and afternoon safari game drives over the next two days.

The area is renowned for ‘Big Five’, – lion, leopard, elephant, buffalo and rhino – game viewing encounters on game drives in open 4×4 safari vehicles led by expert rangers and trackers. Kapama offers unsurpassed game viewing opportunities of territorial, individually recognizable lion and leopard which are tracked on a daily basis. Cheetah tends to be nomadic but is regularly encountered. Huge herds of buffalo and elephant are frequently seen quenching their thirst at waterholes.

After breakfast you will be transferred back to Hoedspruit airport for your flight to Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe where you will be met and transferred to your hotel. Fantasy Tours chose this beautiful lodging facility because you will be within a very short walking distance to the thundering Victoria Falls. Mosi-oa-tunya or the “Smoke That Thunders” by the locals.

Accommodation: 5–Star Ilala Lodge at Victoria Falls

After breakfast you will be taken on a guided tour of Victoria Falls, one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World. This walking safari takes you through the magnificent rain forest where you are able to view the Cataracts, Livingstone’s statue and a wide variety of birds and plants. David Livingstone, a Scottish explorer, visited the falls in 1855 and renamed them after Queen Victoria, though they were known locally as Mosi-oa-Tunya – “the Smoke that Thunders”.

After our morning tour of the falls, we will cross the bridge for visit to Zambia, our third African country. This will be a brief visit to purchase souvenirs or have a light lunch.

Complete the day with a sunset cruise on the Zambezi River. Enjoy a spectacular African sunset as you sip a cocktail and look out for hippos and crocodiles.

Accommodation: 5–Star Ilala Lodge at Victoria Falls

After breakfast, we board our coach for a full day tour to Botswana and Chobe National Park for some spectacular animal viewing. Tonight at our farewell dinner, we will share experiences about our visit to South Africa and Zimbabwe.

Accommodation: 5–Star Ilala Lodge at Victoria Falls

• 11:00 AM – Depart Hotel for Victoria Airport (VFA).
• 1:55 PM – Depart Victoria Airport (VFA).
• 3:35 PM – Arrive Tambo Int’l Airport (JNB) Johannesburg, South Africa.
• 9:50 PM – Depart Tambo Int’l Airport (JNB) Johannesburg, South Africa.
• 7:15 AM (Tuesday, February 12, 2019) – Arrive London Heathrow Airport (LHR).
• 10:35 AM ( Tuesday, February 12, 2019) – Depart London Heathrow Airport (LHR).
• 1:55 PM (Tuesday, February 12, 2019) – Arrive Los Angeles International Airport (LAX).