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	Crocodile farm and Game drive in Lion Park / or 1 of these combined with a visit to the African Market	full day
	Cullinan Diamond Village, incl. guided mine surface tour	half day
	Tswaing Meteorite Crater and Cullinan Diamond mine surface tour	full day
	Sun City	full day
	National Park Pilanesberg, game drive in our own vehicle	full day
	Canopy Tour, combined with a visit to the African Market	full day
	Dinokeng Spoil day	full day
	something special
	Lesedi Cultural Village, incl. African lunch/dinner, combination with Lion Park or Rhino & Lion is possible	full day
	De Wildt Cheetah and Wildlife Centre, combined with a visit to the African Market	full day
	Cradle of Human Kind, Sterkfontein Caves en Maropeng Visitor Center	full day

 





CROCODILE FARM and LION PARK: 

Croc City farm provides the opportunity to observe one of the world's most spectacular predators at close range.

Facilities: tea garden, curio shop with a wide variety of croc-souvenirs, as well as vacuum-packed crocodile meat. You can taste some croc-meat for lunch (R40-R70, depending on the portion size you take).

Saturday and Sunday: feeding program, 14.00h.
Open 7 days a week.





Game drive in our own vehicle in the Lion Park.

The Lion Park is situated in Gauteng Province, near Johannesburg and Pretoria and is home to over 80 lions including the rare white lions and many other carnivores such as cheetah, wild dog, brown and spotted hyena and black backed jackal and a wide variety of antelope which roam freely in the antelope area.

First of all you can ‘interact’ with some of the cubs, which means you can really play with lion cubs. There is also a giraffe feeding platform and you are more then welcome to take photographs. After that we will go on a game drive in our own bus and will have a close look at all animals, such as white lions, hyenas, wildebeest, springbok, blesbok, gemsbok, zebra and giraffe.

AFRICAN MARKET, Chameleon Village:
For all your friends and family back home: a nice souvenir from the African Market. Here you can negotiate for your bargain.

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CULLINAN DIAMOND MINE:
diamond mine surface tour at the oldest operating diamond mine in the world.

On our way to Cullinan we drive through the beautiful Dinokeng area. The Blue IQ-team has started to improve the infrastructure of this area and is busy to make fences around it, to bring the Big 5 in. The Big 5 = lion, African elephant, African or Cape buffalo, leopard and (black and white) rhinoceros. Dinokeng is an upcoming area for tourist and nature lovers.

Cullinan looks like an open air museum. You’ll find a display of mining equipment, small shops -with exhibitions and souvenirs- and lovely restaurants. 

We are sure you will enjoy the guided surface tour (no persons younger then 10) and Rosy Blue, where diamonds are being cut and polished at the source. Take your time to buy diamonds from a large variety of diamonds of different shapes and colours; quality Tanzanite pieces as well as white and yellow gold and platinum jewellery at Cullinan Diamonds. You can also take a guided mine tour of 4-5 hours. Dressed like a miner you go deep in this mine. Because of the duration this is on a separate day trip. Price on request.

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TSWAING CRATER and CULLINAN mine surface tour:

Tswaing, ‘Place of Salt’,
is a 1946-hectare conservation area in Gauteng, 40 km northwest of Pretoria.

 

About 220 000 years ago a meteorite slammed into the earth's crust. The impact formed a crater of 1,4 km in diameter and 200 m deep. It is one of the best-preserved terrestrial meteorite impact craters anywhere in the world. Other important craters in Southern Africa are Roter Kamm, Kalkkop, Morokweng and the Vredefort Dome.

Cycling: for beginners and experienced cyclers. This is the place to be for a wonderful cycling tour. We arrange your bicycle and an experienced guide.      

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SUN CITY: 



YOU HAVE TO SEE THIS!

Suncity is internationally renowned for its golf, game and gambling,
as well for its world-class hotels.  

  

Included in our day trip is a visit to the Jumbo Casino, so you will be able to play a game on one of the many machines. 
Optional: a guided tour to the Lost City, where you will find a copy of South Africa's most famous elephant, ‘Shawu’.
You will be guided through the very luxurious Palace, with wonderful painted ceilings and mosaics. 

Optional: have a swim in the Valley of Waves, with 1.8 metre waves every 90 seconds. Additional fee R75.


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PILANESBERG:

 

Pilanesberg National Park is an area of 50 000 hectares ‘Bushveld’. We will have a game drive in our own bus, having the change to see the Big 5. The name 'Big 5' does not refer to the size of the animals, but the Big 5 are the most difficult to hunt on foot. It is the lion, African elephant, African or Cape buffalo, leopard and (black and white) rhinoceros. Ofcourse we have to stay in the car during the game drive, because you never know what is awaiting around the next corner…..

There are also 50 other species of larger mammals;

65 reptile species; 18 amphibian species; 354 bird species
and thousands of other interesting, smaller animals.       
                      
Optional: 1 night in Sundown Ranch or Kwa Maritan, price on request.

  

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DINOKENG SPOIL DAY:

Something special:

Including transfers; price depending on your choice of activities and amount of people.

~ half day Health Spa: 2 treatments and jacuzzi
~ half day Game Drive with bush braai: spot the different animals and various birds and have a nice barbeque in the bush

or

~ half day Health Spa: 2 treatments and jacuzzi
~ half day Lion farm: learn about the characters and behaviour of these Royal animals

Combinations of activities and accommodation at the Spa or at the Lion farm are possible.

 

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LESEDI:

Enjoy the Traditional Africa Dance Show in the Ndebele Theatre and have a guided tour through the four ethnic villages of Zulu, Xhosa, Pedi and Sotho. This is a cultural experience, included a welcome drink and a traditional meal. The LESEDI dancers take you to the heart beat of Africa.

CANOPY TOUR, combined with a visit to an African Market:

Experience it to believe it!

Experience the 2,400 million year old Magaliesberg mountains on a unique 2.5 hour canapy tour through the Ysterhout kloof. The tour consists of eleven platforms built high within the rock faces on the kloof and joined by ten slides up to 140m long and 30m above the stream below.

Trained guides assure the safety of each group (minimum 2 people) while describing interesting facts about the ancient mountain, surrounding ecology, bird and animal life.   

AFRICAN MARKET:
Chameleon Village: For all your friends and family back home: a nice souvenir from the African Market.
Here you can negotiate for your bargain.

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DE WILDT CHEETAH and WILDLIFE CENTRE,
combined with a visit to an African Market:

Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays.
Option: Morning tour with lunch, additional R100 p.p.

The centre lies nestled in the foothills of the Magaliesberg, presenting a landscape of open African veld, many indigenous trees and a panoramic view to the north. Rare wild animals are part of this landscape.

Visitors can see the animals up close and learn interesting facts about their nature, habitat and way of life when taking a tour in an open vehicle, conducted bu a knowledgeable guide. The tour lasts 3 hours and is an unforgettable experience!



AFRICAN MARKET:
Chameleon Village: For all your friends and family back home: a nice souvenir from the African Market.
Here you can negotiate for your bargain.

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CRADLE OF HUMAN KIND:

 

Visit the Maropeng Visitor Centre and go down in
the world famous Sterkfontein Caves:                       

      

STERKFONTEIN CAVES are most famous for the two world renowned hominid finds, namely Mrs Ples in 1947 and Little Foot in 1997. Since excavations at the site first began, hundreds of hominid fossils as well as stone tools have been found at Sterkfontein. The excavation of Little Foot and other fossils is an ongoing process at this still active fossil dig. 

Dr Robert Broom and his assistant, John Robinson, discovered the skull of Mrs Ples, buried at the Sterkfontein Caves. Discovered in the mid-1990s, Little Foot is still lying in situ in Sterkfontein, while palaeontologist Prof Ron Clark painstakingly excavates him from his final resting place. Once uncovered, he will yield invaluable clues about how and why we developed as a species over the past five million years. The find of this almost complete australopithecine is perhaps the most important hominid discovery ever made.

 

In the MAROPENG VISITOR CENTRE you can enjoy a journey on an underground lake, through the elemental forces –water, air, fire and earth– dipping through waterfalls and real icebergs, into the eye of a storm, past erupting volcanoes and through the depths of the earth and emerging at the beginning of the world. From here, the journey continues through an experience highlighting the history of our world and humankind as a species, brought to life via audiovisual techniques, evocative sound effects, theme-park technology and theatrical displays. There are also real fossils on display at the visitor centre.

 
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