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South Africa Tour

Service, Silence and Sea

Interested in a unique, service-oriented South Africa Tour? Contact Judy

lion in South Africa bush

Lions in the South Africa Bush

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The tour will be for eight people. We will meet in Johannesburg, spend a restful night, before driving to the Blyde River Canyon with a single stop to marvel at the nature reserve on the top of the canyon. We will spend 4 nights in a private lodge at the Blyde River Canyon with daily trips to the New Dawn Center in the rural community where I have worked for the last twelve years. This will be your opportunity to play with the nursery school children, teach the art class students something new, meet the Mapusha weavers maybe try your hands at spinning and weaving and admire their gardens.

Children at the local Creche (Nursery School)

Children at the local Creche
(Nursery School)

We will do a day trip to Kruger park before heading for the Eastern Cape.

Then we fly to Port Elizabeth and go directly to a Private Game Reserve, Kariega, for a four night stay. This will be bush time, animal time, quiet time. The final four days will be spent on the Garden Route, the beaches and cliffs of Plettenberg Bay, hiking and exploring the magnificent ocean world of the Cape.

Judy and Jean, Garden Route Beach, South Africa

Plettenberg Bay Beach
on the Garden Route, South Africa

If you are tickled and tempted by the sound of this trip send me an email with any questions or download the brochure. More pictures available on request!

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The Mapusha Weaving Cooperative is a nonprofit enterprise of women weavers and spinners who demonstrate their mastery of weaving with carpets and tapestries of hand-spun and hand-dyed Karakul wool.

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