5 Day Drakensberg & Lesotho Holiday Package 2012

This is the perfect guided tour that allows you to explore South Africa as part of a group. This tour departs on Tuesdays from Johannesburg to Durban in 5 days, travelling via Lesotho and Clarens. Tour highlights include pony trekking in Lesotho, visiting Golden Gate National Park and spectacular Drakensberg.

Holiday Package Includes:
  • Departures: Tuesdays
  • Guided and Transport throughout the itinerary as detailed above. Transport depends on the numbers in the group. Maximum group size 25 people / Minimum group size 2 people.
  • Accommodation as detailed in the itinerary - 4 nights / 5 days
  • Meals as specified in the itinerary
  • Entrance fees as specified in the itinerary
  • Please note: if it says optional it is not included
Holiday Package Excludes :
  • International Airfare (Getting to South Africa and getting back home)
  • Any meals not specified in the itinerary
  • Any entrance fees not specified in the itinerary
  • Any items of a personal nature i.e. telephone calls, laundry
  • Any gratuities

Itinerary

Day 1: Johannesburg / Lesotho

Depart Johannesburg and travel to Lesotho via Bethlehem. Enjoy the views of the diversity of fauna and flora through the Free State.

 

Enter Maseru at the Caledonpoort Border post. Travel through Butha Buthe to your lodge in the Tsehlanyane National Park. 

 

Dinner at the Lodge 

 

Meals Included: Dinner

Day 2: Lesotho

Breakfast at the lodge 

 

After breakfast spend the day enjoying pony ‘trekking’ (riding) (optional extra).

 

For the less adventurous, spend the day at leisure at the hotel or taking in the sights and sounds of the beautiful surrounding mountains with a hike. 

 

Dinner at the lodge 

 

Meals Included: Breakfast, Dinner

Day 3: Lesotho/ Golden Gate Highlands

An early breakfast, drive along the winding roads, admiring the mountains and valleys of Lesotho while ascending to over 3000m above sea level.

 

Re-enter South Africa and enter the Golden Gate Highlands with its dramatically sculpted peaks, ridges and cliffs set in the valley of the Little Caledon River. 

 

Meals Included: Breakfast

Day 4: Golden Gate / Drakensberg

Enjoy a lazy morning breakfast before you depart to experience a whole new vista of the Drakensberg.

 

Compare the differences between the Northern and the Southern Berg regions in flora and fauna

 

Arrive at your destination close to Himeville and Underberg in the Southern Drakensberg

 

Meals Included: Breakfast

Day 5 : Drakensberg / Durban

 

Breakfast at the guest house. 
 
After breakfast depart for Durban. Passing through the rolling hills of KwaZulu-Natal, through Ixopo to uMzinto enjoy the wonderful views of the Indian Ocean before you reach Durban for drop off at your hotel or at Durban International Airport. 

 

Meals Included: Breakfast