You will catch your flight from Dulles Airport direct to South Africa via United Airline. Arrive at the airport 3 hours ahead of time. Departure time is 5:40 pm.

Upon your arrival at Cape Town Airport, you will be met by your professional tour guide for your check in to your hotel at the Holiday Inn or similar. Rest of day at leisure.

After breakfast, our guide will meet you at your hotel for a City and Table Mountain tour. This majestic mountain lies at the southern point of Africa. You will visit a cultural-rich Bo-Kaap quarter; do a walking tour viewing Parliament, St Georges Cathedral and Company Gardens. You will then visit to the Castle of Good Hope and Table Mountain, if the weather permits.

Bo-Kaap, which lies on the fringes of Cape Town’s city centre, is full of character and colourful houses, many of which are national monuments and date back to the 1750s, with cobbled streets that rise up to meet the lower slopes of Signal Hill on which the suburb lies. A lively suburb, the Bo-Kaap’s inhabitants are a blend of cultures that descend from slaves imported by the Dutch in the 1700s.

Originally established as a mixed community of freed slaves, merchants, artisans, laborers and immigrants, District Six was a vibrant centre with close links to the city and the port. By the beginning of the twentieth century, the process of removals and marginalization had begun. The first to be 'resettled' were black South Africans, forcibly displaced from the district in 1901. In 1966 it was declared a white area under the Group Areas Act of 1950, and by 1982, the life of the community was over.

After breakfast, our guide will meet you at your hotel for a full day Robben Island and afternoon Peninsula tour. Robben Island has been used primarily as a prison since the mid-1600s and is now a museum and heritage site.

We proceed to Langa Township to interact with students about education and daily life in the biggest township in Cape Town.

Today you will experience the Cape Point Tour, which is the most popular tour in Cape Town. A tour of breathtaking beauty, majestic scenery and spectacular views. Highlights of the tour include Sea Point, Clifton Beach, Camps Bay, and Hout Bay Harbour, additional optional boat trip to Seal Island (at your own account), Constantia Valley, Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve, Cape Point, Boulders Penguin Colony, and Simons Town.

Groot Constantia is the oldest winery in South Africa. In 1679 Simon van der Stel was appointed by the Dutch East India Company to govern the Cape of Good Hope. After years of loyal service, he requested land from the Company. In 1685 he chose land situated behind Table Mountain for its wine-growing potential and magnificent scenery. Over the years the wines produced on the estate caught the attention of influential people across the globe – clearly due to its impressive quality.

After breakfast and check out, you will be met by our tour guide for a transfer to Cape Town International Airport departing to Johannesburg.

Upon your arrival in Johannesburg, you will check in at Garden Court Hotel, Sandton City (or similar). Rest of day at leisure.

After an early rise, you will be met by our guide at your hotel for a full day Township tour. Travel along the footpaths of our freedom fighters and experience the city of Johannesburg and Soweto through their eyes. Your first visit will be to the Apartheid Museum. The Apartheid Museum opened in 2001 and is acknowledged as the pre-eminent museum in the world dealing with 20th century South Africa, at the heart of which is the apartheid story.

After your visit at the Apartheid Museum, you will take a 20-minute drive to the Hector Pieterson Museum in Orlando West in Soweto. The Hector Pieterson Memorial and Museum commemorate the role of the country’s students in the struggle against apartheid. The museum, dedicated to preserving the memory of the 1976 uprising, is home to a collection of oral testimonies, pictures, audiovisual displays and historical documents relating to the Soweto uprisings.

After the Hector Pieterson Museum, visit the Nelson Mandela house which is 2 minutes away from the museum and then a 9-minute drive to the Regina Mundi Church. The Mandela House at 8115 Orlando West, on the corner of Vilakazi and Ngakane Streets, Soweto, was built in 1945. Nelson Mandela moved here in 1946 and it was his first true home. The house was subsequently turned into a public heritage site, with Nelson Mandela as the Founder Trustee.

Pilanesberg Game Reserve is a sanctuary for a variety of wildlife including the Big Five - rhino, lion, elephant, leopard, and buffalo. Situated inside the eroded crater of an extinct volcano in the Northwest province, it is one of the largest volcanic and Alkaline Ring Complexes of its kind in the world. The park features unique geological formations, diverse habitats, and a rich history with numerous Stone and Iron Age sites scattered throughout.

After breakfast and check-out, our tour guide will meet you at the hotel for a transfer to OR International Airport for our travel back to the United States.

ARRIVAL AT DULLES INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, WASHINGTON, DC