Special Tours

Kalahari Lion - Kgalagadi Bateleur - Kgalagadi

Kalahari Tours and Travel offers a wide range of Special Tours with flexible itineraries. Itineraries will be constructed according to the interests and request of the client. Most of these tours take place in the Northern Cape Province in South Africa. Being based in Upington in the Northern Cape, we are centrally located, which enable us to offer our clients the most practical and cost efficient Special Tours

Anglo Boerr War Scandinavain Memorial - Magersfontein Geologist classroom - Riemvasmaak

In case you desire a tailor made tour or have any special wishes or interests, please don't hesitate to contact us! We know every corner of the region and surely can advise you! Special tours such as Agriculture, Geology, Mining and Minerals, Archaeology, Culture, Battlefields, Flora, Fishing, etc, can be done on request.

Date Plantations - Klein Pella San - Kalahari

Tour 59: 7 Day+ Kalahari Lion & other predators Tour
The best place and time of the year to see these predators is in Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park in summer and by combining South African camps and Botswana campsites one creates the best opportunities to have good sightings of these fascinating creatures. The composition of tailor made itineraries on request,will depend on the season and client’s interests and accommodation preferred. Malaria free area.
Accommodation: Chalet or Camping
Tour options: Guided Tour, Guided 4x4 tour, Guided 4x4 self-drive convoy tour

Tour 60: 4 Day+ Kalahari Raptor Tour
The best places and time of the year to see raptors is in Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park and Augrabies Falls National Park in summer. The composition of tailor made itineraries on request will depend on the season and client’s interests and accommodation preferred. Malaria free area.
Accommodation: Chalet or Camping
Tour options: Guided Tour, Guided 4x4 tour, Guided 4x4 self-drive convoy tour

Tour 61: 3 Day+ Kalahari Flora Tour
February to April is the best time to travel the Kalahari to experience the flora of the area. The composition of tailor made itineraries on request will depend on the season and client’s interests and accommodation preferred. Malaria free area.
Accommodation: Chalet or Camping
Tour options: Guided Tour, Guided 4x4 tour, Guided 4x4 self-drive convoy tour

Tour 62: 3 Day+ Hot Spring Tours
Riemvasmaak and Skroef-se-bad near the Orange River in South Africa and Warmbad and Ai-Ais in South Namibia are hot springs varying from very basic baths to modern indoor baths. Other options are modern facilities in the Western Cape near Montagu, Goudini and near Citrusdal in the Cederberg Mountains. The composition of tailor made itineraries on request will depend on the season and client’s interests and accommodation preferred. Malaria free area
Accommodation: Chalet or Camping
Tour options: Guided, Guided 4x4 tour, Guided 4x4 self-drive convoy tour

Tour 63: 2 Day Kimberley Highlights Tour
Kimberley, the ‘Diamond City’, offers the visitor a great variety in history and culture, including the Big Hole & Mine Museum, McGregor Museum, William Humphrey’s Art Gallery, Duggan Cronin Gallery, Belgravia Historical Walk, Africana Library, Historical Halfway House Hotel and Star of the West Bar, Transport & Spoornet Museums, Anglo-Boere War and WW1 & WW2 Memorials, Wildebeestkuil Rock art Centre, the flamingos at Kamfers Dam and various other places of interest. Malaria free area
Accommodation: Chalet or Camping
Tour options: Guided Tour

Tour 64: 2 Day Anglo-Boere War Tour (Kimberley Area)
This tour includes visits to the battlefields of Belmont, Modderrivier, Magersfontein and Paardeberg & the Burghers Monument, Honoured Dead Memorial, McGregor Museum where a display of the Siege of Kimberley is housed and the West End Cemetery where the deceased on British side were reburied. Malaria free area
Accommodation: Chalet or Camping
Tour options: Guided Tour

Tour 65: 3 Day+ Northern Cape Archaeology, Anthropology & Rock Art Tour
This tour includes visits to McGregor Museum where a display of replicas of the Taung - and Mrs Pless skulls and various other articles of anthropological and archeological importance are housed, the Wonderwork Caves in the Kuruman area where excavations revealed the evidence of human inhabitance for over 800 000 years, an archaeological site outside Kathu and various displays of rock art of the oldest inhabitants, the San. This tour can includes a visit to the Cradle of Humankind near Johannesburg on request. Malaria free area
Accommodation: Chalet or Camping
Tour options: Guided Tour

Tour 66: 3 Day+ Northern Cape Geology, Minerals & Mining Tour
The Northern Cape Province is rich in minerals and tours of diamond, iron ore and manganese mines can be done. Add to that the history of the Kimberley and Alexander Bay Diamond rushes and Namaqualand copper mining history and the fascinating geological areas of Augrabies & Riemvasmaak and the Richtersveld and one has an interesting package. Malaria free area Accommodation: Chalet or Camping
Tour options: Guided 4x4 Tour

Tour 67: 3 Day+ Northern Cape Agriculture Tour
Due to the availability of water from various rivers in a semi-desert area the Northern Cape has a wide variety of Agricultural and other farming activities including sheep for mutton and wool -, cattle - and boergoat farming, huge potato -, onion – and pecan nut farms, grape farms for the making of wine & raisins and for producing table grapes for export, the largest date farm in the southern hemisphere, game farms, of which some are enormous in size, for breeding and hunting purposes, the best Arabian Horse breeder outside Arabia and the race horse farms of Colesberg. Any combination can be done on a tailor made tour. Malaria free area
Accommodation: Chalet or Camping
Tour options: Guided Tour

Tour 68: 3 Day+ Northern Cape Freshwater & Fly Fishing Tour
The waters of the Vaal - and Orange Rivers near Douglas is known as excellent fly fishing waters, especially in search of the indigenous large - and small mouth Yellowfish. The Riet River in Mokala National Park offers good conditions too. The lower Orange River is known for its big Catfish. Fishing tours to any destination in and outside the Province can be done, including Tigerfishing on the Okavango and Zambezi Rivers and surf – and boat angling on the West Coast of Namibia. Malaria free area (Except Okavango and Zambezi)
Accommodation: Chalet or Camping
Tour options: Guided Tour, Self drive

Tour 69: 3 Day+ Northern Cape Cultures & History Tour
The Northern Cape is home to various cultures including Khoi, San, Afrikaners and Setswana - & and English speaking South Africans, to mention a few. The fascinating history of how all these cultures got to the Northern Cape and survived in this harsh area, contributes to an interesting package. Malaria free area
Accommodation: Chalet or Camping
Tour options: Guided Tour

Tour 70: 3 Day Astronomy & Night Skies Tour
18 Km outside the town Sutherland is the South African Astronomical Observatory. It houses 10 telescopes of which one being ‘SALT’ (Southern African Largest Telescope), with a hexagonal mirror of 11m. A day tour of SALT can be done and on the night tours visitors can view the sky through a 16’ Meade and a 14” Celestron telescope. A radio telescope site is in the development stage near Carnavon, 250 km from Sutherland and will contribute to an even greater experience in the future. Malaria free area
Accommodation: Guest House/Hotel only.
Tour options: Guided Tour