Tour Code: WT-South Africa 06

14 Days Travel of South Africa: Johannesburg - Sun City - Pilanesberg - Pretoria - Plettenberg Bay - Cape Town

Departure: Daily


Day 01: Arrival in South Africa
Fly to Johannesburg and then head straight to Sun City by bus for about 2 hours. Sun City is a famous tourist resort referred as “Land of Idyllic Beauty”, as well as a site for Miss World Beauty Contest. Sun City is in fact not a city, but a super-luxury Holiday Village with green hills and blue waters. Here you can experience imitated yet uniquely-designed bathing beaches, vividly-imitated Earthquake Bridge, graceful golf course and artificial lakes. You are sure to get obsessed by the splendid landscape in Sun City and its charm so much as to forget to leave! Check in a hotel after your arrival. 


Day 02: Sun City
You will have a sightseeing tour in Sun City for the whole day. The most important scenic spot of Sun City is Lost City. As legend goes, once within the jungles in ancient South Africa, there was a city which was highly civilized, bearing so much resemblance as ancient Rome. Thereafter it disappeared because of earthquakes and volcanoes. Lost City is exactly the revival of this legendary city. As in legend the city stood in the jungles of Wave Valley, thus for a revitalization of such a Jungles-of-Wave-Valley city, Sun City have altogether transplanted 1.2 million species of trees and plants, and managed to construct a vast area of artificial rain forest and swamp. Among the area lie tranquil, clear creeks and rivers, and dense rain forests and plants. It is no exaggeration that it be ranked as the largest artificial rain forest park around the globe!


Day 03: Sun City
Sun City is a holiday center which integrates multiple types of entertainment programs. In the city visitors can enjoy a good deal of recreation activities, such as golfing, elephant-riding, round-the-city touring by bicycle, archery, darting, etc. All these activities are perfect for participation of an entire family. 


Day 04: Pilanesberg
It will take a 15-minute ride to get to Bakubung in Pilanesberg Game Reserve. Located in the north of South Africa, Pilanesberg Game Reserve is the fourth largest wild animal zoo in South Africa. The zoo is excellent for it is situated only a slope away from Sun City, the most well-known comprehensive recreational site in Africa. Besides, special tour buses are set commuting from Sun City. Sun City is a city filled with urban atmosphere-thronging crowds, amusement spots, swimming pools, 7-star Hotels, indulging laughs. In contrast, on the other side lays vast prairie-rolling hills, and inside the thick grass or under the trees there live a great many wild animals, such as elephants, giraffes, rhinoceros, hippos, gazelles, etc. All of them are in harmony with visitors in nearby holiday villages without disturbing each other. 


Day 05: Pilanesberg
Pilanesberg Game Reserve is quite huge, so for the next two days you will continue your adventure in the zoo. 


Day 06: Pilanesberg
Today is the last day in Pilanesberg Game Reserve and you are going to visit the large Central Lake. 


Day 07: Pretoria
In the morning, you will leave Pilanesberg for Pretoria, the administrative capital of South Africa. Pretoria is totally a westernized city, with the streets almost all white people. The city appears prosperous, tidy streets, attractive landscape, and flourish flowers and trees, which wins a good name of “Garden City”. Next you are scheduled to visit the De Wildt Cheetah Center, where you will get the chance to watch rare species. 


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