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Head for SA

The next Women on Wanderlust (WOW) tour takes off in September with a nine-day tour of South Africa

Photo: Jyothi Dutta

Wuthering heights The majestic Table Mountain is one of the sights

Women On Wanderlust (WOW Club), a group of women travellers from India, is headed out for exotic South Africa. The ’Best of South Africa’ tour starts from Mumbai on September 17 for nine days.

WOW been trying to provide a solution for women who want to travel, but don’t like the idea of travelling alone — the average group size is 12 to 20 women.

Wild and tamed, ancient and avant-garde, often referred to as ‘a world in one country’, South Africa is a land of quaint contrasts and endless possibilities, where you can you straddle two mighty oceans (Indian and Atlantic), tour one of the largest wine-producing regions in the world, and luxuriate in a boutique game lodge after scoring snapshots of the ‘Big Five’ — elephants, lions, leopards, rhinos and buffalo.

The tour includes Cape Town, a cable car trip to the top of the Table Mountain, a tour of Cape Wine Country and the Cape Peninsula. Cape wine country is the seventh-largest wine-producing region in the world.

Cape Peninsula or Cape of Good Hope is a thin finger of land with diverse flora and fauna.

Boulder’s Beach is where you can sun on the sand before visiting the home of a colony of thriving African “jackass penguins.”

The town of Hermanus is built along the shores of Walker Bay near the Southern most tip of Africa. Magnificent mountains watch over the town which is home to the Southern Right Whale. It’s one of the best land-based whale-watching destinations in the world.

A tour of the world’s first Ostrich Show Farm, visit to the Cango Caves and Wine Centre tucked away in the foothills of the Swartberg Mountains are also on the cards. You also get to explore Knysna, on the banks of the Knysna Lagoon, a National Lake Area.

A ferry trip on the Knysna Lagoon takes you to view the famous Knysna Head aboard a leisure boat. Game viewing at Pilanesburg and some gaming at the casino at Sun City are also on the itinerary.

The tour cost is Rs. 1,10,000 on twin share (single room supplement is Rs. 20,000). This price includes economy class airfare and taxes, airport transfers. Accommodation in standard rooms on dinner, bed and breakfast basis.

Light lunches will be provided. All transfers and sightseeing is on private basis in an air conditioned vehicle.

To join the group and for details log on to www.wowsumitra.com or e-mail: me@wowsumitra.com.

Or call: 0-98916-55054.

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