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| In conjunction with Rovos Rail, Macit Tours
offers a fantastic nine-day golf safari, which includes some of
South Africa’s finest golf courses. At all venues there
are optional excursions for the non-playing guests who will be
enjoy some of Africa’s most special sights.
The journey is a round trip starting in the outskirts of Pretoria,
at Rovos’s new Station and Locomotive yard. The Pride of
Africa wends its way through the highveld highveld maize fields
to the picturesque village of Watervalonder. The golfers meet
there first challenge at the exclusive Leopard Creek Golf Course,
whilst non-playing guests enjoy a game drive in the famous Kruger
National Park and lunch and shopping at Casterbridge, a picturesque
town in the Lowveld. The next day we arrive in Swaziland where
the golfers tackle the Royal Swazi Golf Club course, whilst non-golfers
track game at Mlilwane Game Reserve followed by a visit to the
Houses of Parliament and a Swazi candle factory. In Zululand we
visit the Hluhluwe Game Reserve and the World Heritage Site of
the St. Lucia Estuary.
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| Then it’s on to Durban, where golfers
play one of South Africa’s best courses, Durban Beachwood
Country Club whilst non-playing guests enjoy a tour of the city
and visit the Valley of a Thousand Hills.
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In the foothills of the splendid Drakensburg
Mountains golfers take on the challenge of the Champagne Sports
Resort, whilst the non-playing guests are taken on a tour of the
Anglo-Boer War battlefields.
Our final port of call, before returning to Pretoria, is the magnificent
resort of Sun City where you can follow the footsteps of some
of golf’s legends like Ernie Els, Tiger Woods, and Colin
Montgomerie and of course Gary Player, on the course designed
by and named after him. It is also a final chance to see Africa’s
Big Five in the Pilansberg Game Reserve, followed by a leisurely
farewell dinner aboard the train.
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Itinerary
DAY
1 10h00
Depart Rovos Rail's private station,
Capital Park in Pretoria18h30
Arrival Waterval Onder |
DAY
1 10h00
Depart Rovos Rail's private station, Capital Park in Pretoria 18h30 Waterval
Onder |
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2 10h00 Eighteen
holes of golf at Leopard Creek in Malelane 18h00 Train departs
for Swaziland |
DAY 2 09h00 Game
drive in the Kruger Park, lunch at Casterbridge18h00 Train departs for
Swaziland. |
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3 09h00
Tee-off at Royal Swazi Golf Club near Manzini |
DAY 3 09h30 Game
Drive Mlilwane Game Reserve, followed by a visit to Houses of
Parliament and the Swazi candle factory |
| DAY
4 06h00
Game drive in Hluhluwe;16h00 Cruise on St
Lucia lake |
DAY 4 06h00
Game Drive in Hluhluwe; 16h00 Cruise on St
Lucia lake |
| DAY
5 09h00 Tee-off
at Durban Country Club |
DAY
5 09h00
Durban City Tour and Phezulu Village tour
in The Valley of a Thousand Hills followed by lunch at the Durban Country
Club |
| DAY
6 09h00
Tee-off at Champagne Sports Resort - Drakensberg |
DAY
6 09h00
Walk at Champagne Spots Resort or professional tour of Battlefields
near Ladysmith, shopping and join the golfers for lunch |
| DAY
7 07h00
Depart Ladysmith Day at leisure on the train |
DAY
7 07h00 Depart
Ladysmith Day at leisure on the train |
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8 09h00 Tee-off
at Gary Player Country Club, Sun City 14h00 Lunch at Club16h30
Game drive in Pilansberg Game Reserve |
DAY
8 09h30 Explore
Sun City14h00 Lunch at Gary Player CC16h30 Game drive in Pilansberg
Game Reserve |
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9 07h00
Depart Rustenberg10h00 Arrive Capital Park
Station, Pretoria |
DAY
9 07h00 Depart
Rustenberg10h00 Arrive Capital Park
Station, Pretoria |
Contact Details
Contact: Chic
Tel: + 27 (0) 11 784 1358 / + 27 (0) 82 683 0799
Fax: + 27 (0) 11 884 1023
Email:chic@macit.co.za
Website:http://www.macit.co.za
ROAMING AFRICA OFFERS YOU AN ALL AFRICA EXPERIENCE !
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