DAY 01 ISTANBUL AIRPORT – DOHA
Meeting with our valued guests at 17:30 at the Qatar Airways counter in the international departures terminal of Istanbul New Airport. After passport and baggage/check-in procedures, depart for Doha at 20:10 on Qatar Airways flight QR 246. Overnight on the plane
DAY 02 DOHA – JOHANNESBURG
Arrival in Doha at 00:10 local time. Following our arrival, after passport and check-in procedures for the transfer, depart for Johannesburg at 01:10 on Qatar Airways flight QR 1363. Arrival in Johannesburg at 08:40 local time. After meeting our guide at the airport, we begin our Panoramic Johannesburg city tour with our private vehicle waiting for us. In our panoramic city tour, City Center, Houghton-Mandela House, Rosebank, and Sandton are among the places we will see during our tour. After our tour, transfer to our hotel. After hotel check-in, room assignment and free time. Overnight at our hotel in Johannesburg.
DAY 03 JOHANNESBURG – SUN CITY
After breakfast in the morning, we head to the Sun City region. On the way, guests who wish may join the optional Lion Park tour (90 USD). In our Lion Park Tour, we will have the opportunity to see the rare white lions playing in their natural environment. Then, for guests who wish, there is the option of an optional Lesedi Cultural Village tour with lunch (100 USD). Lesedi is a cultural village where you can closely observe the lifestyles, dances, traditions, and customs of the black tribes living in South Africa. At the beginning of the tour, the history of black cultures is explained with a video presentation, after which we are divided into small groups and enter the areas displaying the home life of the Zulu-Xhosa-Basotho and Pedi tribes. Then we watch cultural African dances. We take our lunch, included in the optional tour, with traditional African cuisine at Lesedi Cultural Village. After the visit to Lesedi Village, we continue on our way and arrive in Sun City, where we will take our panoramic city tour. Sun City is on the edge of a quiet lake in the grasslands of North West Province, South Africa, and is surrounded by the majestic mountains of Pilanesberg. Sun City is unique among holiday resorts with the combination of many of its features. Every year, it attracts thousands of tourists with its magnificent sports and entertainment activities, four- and five-star hotels, and the magical Lost City. After our panoramic city tour upon arrival, we settle into our hotel. Overnight at our Sun City hotel
DAY 04 SUN CITY
After breakfast in the morning, free time. Guests who wish may join the optional Pilanesberg Safari Tour (185 USD). In our safari trip to be made with safari vehicles in Pilanesberg National Park, we will have the opportunity to spend unforgettable hours full of unique memories in nature; in Pilanesberg National Park, we will be guests to the daily life of various wild animals living in a natural environment of volcanic formation among the mountains. During our trip, we will have the opportunity to see the Big Five, namely lion, leopard, elephant, buffalo and hippopotamus, as well as 350 bird species, 65 reptiles and hundreds of different animal species; after the safari, we will transfer to our hotel to rest. Overnight at our hotel.
Guests who wish may join an extra Safari at sunset in addition to the Safari to be done at sunrise. (185 USD)
DAY 05 SUN CITY – JOHANNESBURG – CAPE TOWN
After breakfast at the hotel in the morning, we transfer to the airport to take our Johannesburg – Cape Town flight. Along the way, an optional Elephant and Monkey Park tour will be arranged for guests who wish (155 USD). At the Elephant Park, you will interact with elephants and touch their uniquely created body parts. Throughout our tour, you will meet the rangers with whom our elephants share a special trust-based relationship and understand the value of this relationship and be a part of it. You will also learn much more interesting facts about how elephants are uniquely created and shaped in anatomy. In Monkey Park, you will have an interactive experience with monkeys and lemurs living freely in a natural and exotic forest, and you will have the opportunity to hug and touch them. After our tour, arrival at the airport and the Cape Town flight takes place. With our arrival in Cape Town, we board our private vehicle waiting for us and begin our panoramic city tour. Parliament Building, Company Gardens, Long Street, Castle of Good Hope, Reibeck Statue and Adderly Street are among the places to be seen. After the city tour, we transfer to the hotel and settle into our rooms. Overnight at our hotel.
DAY 06 CAPE TOWN
After breakfast at our hotel in the morning, a full day of free time. Opportunity for shopping, rest and sightseeing. Guests who wish may join our optional Cape of Good Hope tour with lunch (190 USD). Passing through the Bantry Bay, Camps Bay and Llandudno regions, we will arrive at Hout Bay, a fishing town. We will go out by boat to see the Cape Fur Seals on Duiker Island. Then, passing through Chapmans Peak or Constantia Nek, we will see the African Penguins at Boulders Beach near Simons Town. After lunch at Black Marlin Seafood Restaurant with an ocean view, the Cape of Good Hope, discovered by Barthelomios Diaz, and the world’s highest lighthouse at Cape Point will be seen by funicular. Then we return to Cape Town passing through different coastal towns. Overnight at our hotel.
DAY 07 CAPE TOWN
After breakfast, free time. An optional Table Mountain & Stellenbosch Wine Farms (with lunch) tour (185 USD) will be organized for those who wish. First, we set out on our tour where we will taste the famous wines of the region. After a 45-minute journey, at KWV Wine Emporium, we first tour the cellars and then taste the wines. Then we move on to the town of Stellenbosch, founded in 1679, and take a panoramic city tour in this town famous for its wines, oak trees and university. After lunch at Tokara Wine Farm's restaurant, you can go up to the 1087-meter-high summit of Table Mountain and surrender yourself to the magic of this breathtaking view. Afterwards, we return to our hotel. Overnight at our hotel.
Optional: Gold Restaurant Dinner (Accompanied by Traditional African Dance Shows) 85 USD
DAY 08 CAPE TOWN – DOHA
After breakfast at the hotel in the morning, we complete our check-out procedures. Free time until transfer time. Guests who wish may join the optional Symbols of South Africa tour (130 USD). Our first stop on the tour will be Ostrich Ranch Cape Town, where we will visit the ostriches and have the opportunity to see all aspects of ostrich breeding and farming, including leather goods production. Then we will move on to the Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden. Covering an area of 36 hectares of cultivated garden and 528 hectares in total, this large garden is a meeting point for South African flora. In this garden, where only native South African plants are displayed, Fynbos, Proteas, cycads and rolling grasses, streams and ponds, and well-arranged paths for easy walking are intertwined. After enjoying the magnificent view among the various bird species in the garden, we will go to the Treetop Canopy walkway bridge, which offers visitors the chance to experience the forest from above ground. The galvanized steel structure awaits us for an adventure crowned above the forest among the trees and branches. After the tour, transfer to Cape Town airport with our private vehicle waiting for us. After passport and baggage procedures, depart for Doha at 18:55 on Qatar Airways flight QR 1372. Overnight on the plane
DAY 09 DOHA – ISTANBUL AIRPORT
Arrival in Doha at 05:25 in the morning local time. With the transfer we will make here, depart for Istanbul at 07:45 on Qatar Airways flight QR 239. Arrival at Istanbul Airport at 12:20 local time. End of our tour.