news to use AFRICA Exclusive battle tours from A&K
BY STEVE HARTRIDGE Abercrombie & Kent has teamed
up with eminent African historian and storyteller Rob Caskie for two exclusive tours in 2012. Featured are trips to South Africa’s Zulu Battlefields, in KwaZulu-Natal and The ancient Kingdom of the Black Pharaohs in Northern Sudan. The Zulu Battlefields tour (April 7-13)
will visit the moving sites of Isandlwana, where 25,000 Zulus decimated a British encampment, and Rorke’s Drift (pictured), the missionary post successfully defended days later by 139 British soldiers against an onslaught from 4000 Zulus. The tour is priced from £2,985pp, excluding international flights. The Kingdom of the Black Pharoahs
tour (October 14-21) will retrace the footsteps of the outnumbered Sudanese army in their battle against the Ethiopian forces and will visit the Battlefields of Metemma, Jebel Abu Tulayh and Abu Kru. Guests will also learn about Nubian culture and stay in a tented camp in Meroe, overlooking the floating pyramids of the Black Pharaohs. The tour is priced from £3,335pp, excluding international flights.
www.abercrombiekent.co.uk
Audley has combination deals Audley Travel's new South Africa
brochure features a combination of off- the-beaten-track itineraries and many of the country’s familiar top attractions and destinations. The nine-day 'Escarpment and Kruger' itinerary costs from £1,645pp and includes three nights in the Escarpment region and three nights on safari. An 11-day 'Grape Escape' itinerary
AFRICA IN BRIEF
Rwanda on tourism trail Rwanda has launched the Congo
Nile Trail for adventurous travellers. The trail skirts Lake Kivu and features scenery, coffee and tea plantations, towns and villages. It can be walked in 10 days or completed by bicycle in five days (or by 4X4 car in three days). Along the way are eight base camps.
www.rwandatourism.com
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Kwande goes it alone Kwandwe Private Game
Reserve, part of the &Beyond stable, will operate as an independent brand from February 1. The pristine South African wilderness has 20 rooms split between four lodges. Guests can join a rhino darting safari, carnivore research programme and take a cultural visit.
www.kwandwe.com
More flight options for Zambia KLM Royal Dutch Airlines will
start a three-times-a-week Amsterdam- Lusaka (Zambia) service from May 15. Tourism in Zambia is centred around Livingstone, on the banks of the Zambezi River and close to Victoria Falls, and its game-rich animal parks like South Luanga and Kafue.
www.klm.com
that combines four nights in Cape Town with four nights in Franschhoek in the Winelands costs from £1,645pp. A self-drive 13-day 'Family Explorer'
Garden Route itinerary, which combines Cape Town, Swellendam, Knysna, Plettenburg Bay and three nights on safari in Greater Addo National Park, is from £2,920pp.
www.audleytravel.com
Kenya proves a new attraction
Attraction World has added Kenya
to its list of worldwide destinations. Ten ‘add-on’ tours and excursions are
featured in Nairobi and Mombasa and include experiences such as a visit to an elephant orphanage (£59), city tours and a two-day safari experience. A Nairobi city tour costs £55pp while Mombasa-bound clients can sign up for a two-day Tsavo and Taita Hills safari for £110pp. The tour includes visits to various homesteads and to Msorongo village to meet with the Taita people. Also in Mombasa a tamarind dhow cruise and dinner is from £42pp. All Attraction World tours are fully commissionable to agents.
www.attractionworld.com
South Africa made affordable
Four of South Africa’s top hotels and
lodges have got together to offer an exclusive ‘12 nights for eight’ deal. The participating properties – Cape
Royale Luxury Hotel and Spa, Franschhoek Country House & Villas, Shumbalala Game Lodge and Cybele Forest Lodge and Health Spa – provide options for clients travelling to, respectively, Cape Town, the Winelands and the Kruger National Park area and its surrounds. Each is offering a 'three-nights-pay-for-
two' deal – which means that guests taking advantage of the promotion at all four properties will, in effect, enjoy a 12-night holiday while paying for only eight nights. The offer is also available in permutations of 'pay six and stay nine,' and 'pay six and stay four'. The deal is valid throughout 2012, except for Christmas and the busy New Year period. Agents should contact their preferred
tour operator and quote the rate code: ERPAYSTAY.
Look out for our KwaZulu-Natal special fam trip report!
See
SellingLongHaul.com/magazines in February 2012 and read what 10 agents think about the South African province known for wildlife, history and great accommodation
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