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Port Elizabeth Return 14 days Early Nov This exciting 'new' itinerary explores the more remote places. A spectacular trip to the wild untamed "frontier" country. This is a non-malarial area full of interesting places, birding spots, plants and some breath-taking scenery. About 500miles south of Durban on the East coast of South Africa lies the town of Port Elizabeth, on the shores of the Indian Ocean in Algoa Bay. We travel from Algoa Bay renamed Nelson Mandela Bay, through various ‘frontier’ towns. Frontier Wars raged between European Settlers and the amaXhosa with the Great Fish River forming the divide between their 'two worlds'. To cross this river was to journey into hostile unknown territory with death a certainty.
In 1820 the British Government was facing a depression and the problem of soldiers returning from the Napoleonic Wars, turned their attention to settling people in the frontier districts of the Eastern Cape, an area 800 miles from Cape Town. More than 4 000 British people left their loved ones and homes and landed on the beach in Algoa Bay, where they were guided inland to their allocated land. There they set up farms and came into bitter conflict with Bantu tribes moving south. The British who survived sank their emotional roots deep into the soil of this frontier land. They paid for their farms with blood and tears, and their descendants became some of the bravest and most patriotic of all the people of southern Africa. This is were this story begins on the beach in Algoa Bay ... One hundred miles inland of the Indian Ocean are the Plains of Camdeboo which cross the Little Karoo wilderness to the mountains encircling them. Scenic passes and game reserves with elephant herds, black rhino and the unique 'mountain' zebra, take us through the remote areas of the Little Karoo and the mountains beyond. Nostalgic homesteads scattered on the sun driven plains giving way to the clear waters of the Indian ocean give the traveler a wealth of insight into South African life today and in the past.
Three National parks and three lesser known Nature/Game reserves. Three Important birding areas: Swartkops Estuary Nature Reserve IBA SA 096 (travel through); Karoo Nature Reserve IBA SA 090; Tsistikamma Nat. Park IBA SA 098 The focus will be natural history, birding, wild flowers, history and culture. For more information on the itinerary please contact us
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