2011 KRUGER NATIONAL PARK
& PANORAMA ROUTE BUS TOUR

From Gauteng

JB Train Tours invite you to join us on our bus tour to the world famous Kruger National Park in the Mpumalanga Lowveld. The KNP is a living monument for those who envisaged the challenges the globe would experience in future. There is nothing else like this natural phenomenon in abundance.

When visiting the KNP it is not only about the Big 5, but about various other animals, birds, the fauna and flora, as well as the tranquillity of the Bushveld. Sleep 3 nights in the KNP and experience it to the full.

On this tour we’ll share with you the beauty of the Panorama Route, including places like God’s Window, Bourke’s potholes, Pilgrim’s Rest, the Mac Mac falls, Graskop and Sabie, Blydepoort Canyon, the Long Tom Pass, as well as the Sudwala Caves.

We are going to take you to places where tour groups normally don’t go. This tour forms part of the Train and Bus tour departing from Cape Town. You’ll join on Day 2 of the train tour and leave the tour at the end of Day 7. Hence, this is a 6-day tour for people joining the bus tour from Gauteng.

Are you tired of driving, looking for accommodation and worrying about the logistics? We’ll take you there. When travelling with us, you don’t have to worry about increasing petrol prices, tollgate fees, heavy traffic, driving back or sitting with stiff legs in your car. It is so much easier, very safe and VERY price competitive.

This bus tour has become very popular in a short space of time. The places you’ll visit, the good accommodation, the safe bus you’ll be travelling in and the experienced tour guides all contribute to an excellent tour.

Die ‘Kruger Wildtuin’ is vir baie mense dié plek om wild te kyk in Suid Afrika. Van kindsbeen af leer en hoor ons van die grootse werk wat daar gedoen word. Ten spyte van veranderinge, het die atmosfeer behoue gebly. Om in die aand op een van die rivierwalle te sit en die wild te sien wei en suip, terwyl die son sak, bly enigmaties.

Ons wys ook graag vir u die skoonheid van die Laeveld wanneer ons baie van die bekende toerisme-bakens besoek.

Name of tour Kruger National Park Bus Tour from Gauteng

Tour dates & Number

Saturday to Thursday 7 - 12 May 2011 KNP 1 B
Saturday to Thursday 2 - 7 Jul 2011* KNP 2 B
Saturday to Thursday 6 - 11 Aug 2011 KNP 3 B
Saturday to Thursday 2 - 7 Sept 2011 KNP 4 B
Saturday to Thursday 1 - 6 Oct 2011 KNP 5 B

All tours are six days long.

Reporting Times

Zulu Nyala Lodge, Fourways, Sandton    18:00   Day 1 (Saturday)

Arrival Times

Zulu Nyala Lodge, Fourways, Sandton    18:00   Day 6 (Thursday)

Tour price

  Price per Person
   
2 Persons per Hotel Room R5050
   
1 Person per Hotel Room R6800

Children (3 - 9 years) will pay R350 per child less than the above tour price. Children 0 - 2 years will travel free of charge if sharing a bed and seat on bus with parent.

* KNP 2 B is R200 pp more expensive due to peak season’s higher rices during the July school holidays.

Deposit

A R500 per person non-refundable deposit will secure your place. The balance must be paid by latest six weeks before departure date. If NOT paid, your place will be cancelled automatically.

Included in the price

Return bus trip, 5 nights’ accommodation in reputable resorts or lodges, entry to the KNP, certain meals, tour guide and excursions as mentioned in the itinerary.

Meals

Two good meals per day (breakfast x5) and dinner x4) are served and are included in the price, unless otherwise indicated.

Excluded from the tour price

Personal expenses, meals not mentioned and Comprehensive Travel Insurance.

Route

The bus route goes from Zuly Nyala Lodge (Fourways) via Middelburg, Nelspruit to the KNP. From the KNP to Graskop, Blydepoort, Pilgrims Rest, Lydenburg, Middelburg and back to Zulu Nyala Lodge. (The route may change without prior warning).

Buses

We only make use of reputable bus companies with good safety records and back-up services in place when needed. Comfortable luxury buses are used.

Accommodation

We’ll be staying for one night at the Zulu Nyala Lodge, three nights in the KNP and one night in chalets at Blydepoort Forever Resort or the Graskop Hotel.

We host two persons (or one) per room.

Due to accommodation constraints in the KNP, this tour is limited to a maximum of 50 people.

Tour guide

A qualified tour guide will travel with you.

We are looking forward in hosting you on tour.

Note #1

People living in ‘other’ parts of the country, can make use of the train trip departing from Cape Town and linking onto this tour. Travel with your Capetonian family on the same tour. Contact us for the relevant Information Document.

Note #2

The KNP falls within a malaria area. Please visit your doctor or pharmacist for the correct vaccines.

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Travel greetings

Johan Badenhorst & The JB Train Tours Team

 

Provisional PROGRAMME

2011 Kruger National Park Bus Tour

Italic is not applicable to the bus tour passengers.

Day 1 On arrival at the station you’ll enjoy something to drink. Board the train, unpack, make yourself comfortable and start enjoying the trip. The tour guide will visit you in your compartment and you can start preparing for your welcome dinner (included in tour price). Other passengers will join us en route. The train travels overnight.
   
Day 2 We travel across the Great Karoo (never underestimate or ignore the beauty of this vast space) and after lunch we reach Egoli (Jo’burg). We disembark, board the bus and book in at the Zulu Nyala lodge. The evening is at leisure and dinner is for your own pocket. Overnight in the Lodge.
   
18:00 Book in at the Zulu Nyala Lodge. The evening is at leisure and dinner is for your own pocket. Overnight in the Lodge
   
Day 3

After breakfast we depart by bus for the KNP. En route we’ll travel via Middelburg, Waterval Boven, Nelspruit and Malelane to reach our overnight camp before dark. Dinner is served (included in tour price). We overnight in the KNP.
   
Day 4 & 5 For the following two days we depart before breakfast to view game, return to the camp, be at leisure until late afternoon before we go on another game viewing trip by bus. Dinner is served (included in tour price). We normally overnight both nights in the KNP in the same camp as Day 3.
   
Day 6 We depart by bus after breakfast. En route we’ll travel via Hazyview & Graskop to the Blydepoort Canyon, visiting God’s Window, Bourke’s Luck Potholes and the Three Rondavels. Dinner is served (included in tour price) at Forever Resorts Blydepoort or Graskop Hotel where we’ll overnight
   
Day 7 After breakfast we’ll depart for the historical miners’ town, Pilgrim’s Rest. You can eat a pancake, walk the streets, buy a souvenir and take a ‘photo in old Victorian clothes’. We continue the journey via the Mac Mac Falls to Sabie and then over the Long Tom Pass to Lydenburg. Late afternoon we’ll arrive again back on the highveld at the Zulu Nyala Lodge.  The bus passengers leave the tour and go home. Overnight in the Lodge.
   
Day 8 We are transferred by bus to the Jo’burg station after breakfast. The train departs for Cape Town at 10:30. Dinner is served (included in tour price) on the train and we sleep again on the train.
   
Day 9 The last breakfast of the tour is enjoyed on the train and passengers disembark at various stations before we arrive in Cape Town at 12:40.

RESERVATION FORM

GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE TRAIN