By Ashraaf Packree, Acridian Tours & Safaris
SAFARIS AND CUSTOMIZED TOURS
Acridian Tours & Safaris offers safaris and guided tours to all game reserves in South Africa as well as neighbouring states. We offer bush safaris, game viewing safaris as well as camping safaris, truly South African hospitality and cuisine including the South African barbecue called “braai”
Travel in style and safety
Acridian tours has a brand new extensive fleet equipped with airconditioning, dvd entertainment, abs braking and airbags ,smash and grab/privacy glass , first aid kits and fire extinguishers and run flat tyres to ensure a safe and a comfortable journey to remember.
Vehicles of transport
Our vehicles are on maintenance plan and are strictly serviced by the manufacturer ensuring reliability.
Clients have a choice from budget to semi luxury and luxury vehicles, always clean and in good order. No group too big or small. Each vehicle is equipped with a tow bar and a trailer is available for extra luggage.
SAFARIS
Pilanesburg Game Reserve close to Sun City in the Northwest province offers game viewing of the big 5. Various camps are available within the game reserve offering accommodation in the South Africanbush against the backdrop of the Magaliesburg mountain range. Best game viewing times are in the early morning and late afternoon when animals come out feed and drink at watering holes. A vast species of African flora and fauna is also available.
Madikwe Game Reserve near Zeerust also in the northwest province, bordering Botswana, and in close proximity of the border post also boasts viewing of the big 5 and various camps. Many luxury game lodges are available with world class facilities and cuisine. It is the ideal venue to unwind and be closer to nature away from the city hustle and bustle. Acridian tours offer daily trips to madikwe in air-conditioned vehicles.
The Kruger National Park is the largest game park in the southern hemisphere, and recently also a transfrontier park to neighbouring Mozambique. The park is so large it spans from the Mpumalanga province in Nelspruit till far north to the Limpopo province in Messina bordering Zimbabwe the former Rhodesia. Kruger Park has many gates called Numbi gate, Punda Maria, and Skukuza to name but a few. Budget to luxury accommodation is offered in all camps and houses the well known Sabi sabi and Sabi sands game lodges. In close proximity one can visit the panorama route which includes Sabi, God’s window, Pilgrims rest, Sudwala caves, Long tom pass as well as the Blyde river canyon. The area consists of mountain passes, waterfalls, historic mining towns and the picturesque town of Dullstroom offering mountain trout fishing.
The Mabula Game Lodge: The Waterberg mountain range snugly cradles the renowned game reserve, which is home to a mosiac of exceptional scenic landscapes as well as an abundance of wildlife species. Game viewing is at its best against a backdrop of rivers, streams and streches of open vistas. Mammal species include big game such as elephant, lion, white and black rhino, hippo, leopard and buffalo. African python and the Nile crocodile are also resident in the reserve which is a birdwatchers' paradise as well. Over 300 bird species, 60 mammals, the "Big Five" and numerous plant species.
CUSTOMIZED TOURS
Tours Pretoria
Pretoria (A.K.A) the Jacaranda City, due to its abundance of jacaranda trees has the Union Buildings, overlooking Pretoria, with the office of the state president of southern Africa, surrounded by the embassies and high commissions of most foreign countries. The historicalChurch Square has the Palace of Justice, old post office and other sandstone buildings protected by the SA National Monuments Committee.
Pretoria also has the Voortrekker monument, Correctional services museum as well as SA police museum. There is also a science and technology museum and various other museums to satisfy students, tourists and historians alike.
Various malls offer discerning shoppers a treat at Brooklyn Mall, Menlyn Mall and many others. There is also an Asiatic market called “marabastad” (pictures of marabastad Brooklyn and menlyn mall. Shopping and restaurants are in abundance in Pretoria to suite all palettes.
Pretoria is in close proximity to cullinan diamond mine and has vast hotels, night clubs, universities as well as major highways linking it to the rest of South Africa.An extensive road network links pretoria to Johannesburg and the rest of South Africa via newly tarred and widened roads.
Tours Hartbeespoortdam and North West province
Hartbeespoortdam dam is a scenic drive through picturesque waterfalls along the backdrop of the Magaliesburg mountain range, boasting unspoilt wilderness. It boasts South Africa’s unspoilt beauty and warm hospitality.
De wildt cheetah reserve allows guests to view a cheetah conservancy and breeding programme of world class and is a very popular tourist destination. Guests even get the opportunity to get close with animals and even touch them under supervision.
The Van gaalen cheese factory offers a cheese farm, restaurant as well as tours of their manufacturing process and cheese tastings. They also offer picnic baskets for a relaxed picnic along the river in total peace and quiet. Lesedi cultural village allows guests to view African culture, including traditional attire, dwellings, and traditional dances of the indigenous Pedi, Zulu, Xhosa, and Basotho and Ndebele tribes of southern Africa. They offer hands on unforgettable experience and tribal music by traditionally dressed performances and dances.
Maropeng origins centre in the cradle of human kind hosting a museum with displays of ancestral man, ancient rock art, fossil remains as well as curios. A restaurant and coffee shop is also available in this picturesque setting. The nearby wonder cave offers a guided tour of the cave where the oldest signs of human kind’s existence were found. The entire cradle of human kind has been transformed into a tourist destination with a welcome centre and proper facilities as well as boat rides promising a full days entertainment.
The Sun City entertainment centre offers a casino, restaurants and palace of the lost city theme park. It also has the nearby Pilanesburg game reserve. World class hotels are also available to suit all budgets. Sun City also has shebeen tours and a crocodile farm called kwena gardens. It is recommended as a day or over night destination with live entertainment and conference facilities and everything you may need.
The monate citrus cellar offers “mampoer” as well as citrus wines made on the premises and also offer tours and wine tastings.
The nearby pecan wood golf course offers a world class golf course as well as restaurants and top class service. Season’s eco golf estate is set in a game reserve where u can play golf in a driving range where you can view zebra, springbok, wildebeest, etc. Our golfing tours offers include airport pickups from the nearby lanseria airport.
Soweto tours
Our unique package to Soweto offers to one of South Africa’s most famous townships where former president Nelson Mandela as well as Archbishop Desmond Tutu, both Nobel Peace Prize winners who resided in one street during the apartheid struggle in South Africa. Our tour includes a visit to the Hector Peterson memorial, Mandela house museum, Maponya mall, Orlando towers as well, Baragwanath hospital as home and church visits giving guests a true Soweto experience. We also offer night tours allowing one to experience the township vibe. We also offer the opportunity of visiting the apartheid museum for the history of South Africa’s political past.
Johannesburg city tours
Johannesburg aka “egoli” meaning “the city of gold”. This name was derived from the vast deposits of gold found there causing a gold rush and boosting the south African economy, bringing in the likes of Anglo American and other large mining companies across the Witwatersrand. Gold reef city theme and entertainment park is a museum of the mining that took place in Johannesburg offering tours above and under ground, gold panning, rides, curios, restaurants, hotels, live entertainment, tribal and gum boot dances as well as train rides.
Acridian Tours and Safaris is a fast growing tour and safari company based in Pretoria South Africa with a focus on inbound tourism and logistical solutions to corporate, hospitality industry and the general traveller.
We are a registered tour company with passenger liability insurance and travellers insurance cover.
Our services include Meet and Greet airport transfer, 24hrs professional shuttle service, guided tours to places of interest, bush and camping safari, as well as game drive.We also undertake general road transfers to suit individual needs including golf,adventure and corporate outings. Rapid growth in clientele is experienced due to competitive rates and prompt professional service second to none. This is an owner run business with vast experience in the travel and hospitality sectors.
We have also began offering full travel packages with discounted accommodation transfers etc at competitive rates.
Try our luxury safari options and travel packages when you plan to tour South Africa. Our vacation packages are customised for ease of booking and affordability with great service.
Acrician Tours website http://www.acridiantours.co.za
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