Jun 18, 2008
Though it's not for a classic African safari of the sort you enjoy in Kenya, there's a $2K deal for a near-safari in South Africa
The one-week African safari for less than $2,000, including round-trip air between New York and Kenya, which used to be offered by Canada's Lion World Tours (www.lionworldtravel.com), is now likely gone forever. The Lion World website lists minimum prices of $2,499, $2,599, and $2,699 per person, depending on date, September through mid-December, including airfare, for an adventure of that sort (see "Best of Kenya").
But in the last two weeks of September, and the first two weeks of December, something similar -- a hybrid city stay and safari experience, all in South Africa -- is available for a remarkable $1,999 per person from Lion World. "South Africa in Style," as the package is called, is an atypically cheap African experience to a country where the normal round-trip airfare, without anything more, is at least $1,566 plus about $600 more for taxes and fees.
"South Africa in Style" flies you first from New York or Washington, D.C., to Cape Town, South Africa, via Johannesburg, and places you for four nights at a five-star hotel in that glittering seaside city, one of the most beautiful on earth. And there you enjoy an introductory sightseeing tour to the famed Winelands area (with its vineyards and tasting rooms) outside the city, but are otherwise left alone to explore the delights of a resort capital famed for its beaches and attractions.
Then you're flown to a games preserve right outside the famous Kruger National Park, where you're taken on successive drives in an open-air van into "the bush" to spot the wildlife associated with Africa. You spend three days and two nights in the luxurious Jackalberry Safari Lodge, receiving three meals a day throughout your stay. And after a last drive through this private game preserve, you are flown to Johannesburg airport for a connecting inter-continental flight back to New York or Washington, D.C. from Johannesburg. Your $1,999 price has included round-trip air on South African Airways, all domestic flights within South Africa, lodgings as described, 6 breakfasts, 2 lunches and 2 dinners.
For more information, see the Lion World website phone 888/722-4872 or visit South African Airways Vacations' page at www.flysaavacations.com/itin/1.30/1.30.htm.
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But in the last two weeks of September, and the first two weeks of December, something similar -- a hybrid city stay and safari experience, all in South Africa -- is available for a remarkable $1,999 per person from Lion World. "South Africa in Style," as the package is called, is an atypically cheap African experience to a country where the normal round-trip airfare, without anything more, is at least $1,566 plus about $600 more for taxes and fees.
"South Africa in Style" flies you first from New York or Washington, D.C., to Cape Town, South Africa, via Johannesburg, and places you for four nights at a five-star hotel in that glittering seaside city, one of the most beautiful on earth. And there you enjoy an introductory sightseeing tour to the famed Winelands area (with its vineyards and tasting rooms) outside the city, but are otherwise left alone to explore the delights of a resort capital famed for its beaches and attractions.
Then you're flown to a games preserve right outside the famous Kruger National Park, where you're taken on successive drives in an open-air van into "the bush" to spot the wildlife associated with Africa. You spend three days and two nights in the luxurious Jackalberry Safari Lodge, receiving three meals a day throughout your stay. And after a last drive through this private game preserve, you are flown to Johannesburg airport for a connecting inter-continental flight back to New York or Washington, D.C. from Johannesburg. Your $1,999 price has included round-trip air on South African Airways, all domestic flights within South Africa, lodgings as described, 6 breakfasts, 2 lunches and 2 dinners.
For more information, see the Lion World website phone 888/722-4872 or visit South African Airways Vacations' page at www.flysaavacations.com/itin/1.30/1.30.htm.
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