Living There
Company: Endless Summer Tours
Price: +/- $ 880 USD
Duration: +/- 4 days
Location: Durban, KwaZulu-Natal
About Endless Summer Tours:
Endless Summer Tours is an outdoor safari and adventure tour operator. We provide exclusive trips that can be tailored to your exact needs and wants, with a focus on service and comfort. We strive to provide trips that are authentic, unique and inspiring!
4 Day Hluhluwe-iMfolozi & St. Lucia Wetland Safari
Day 1 – Arrive and transfer to Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Game Reserve
We will collect you at your required destination I.E Durban international airport, establishment in Durban city or any other such place in the Province. We depart in the morning and drive to the Reserve. You will have a guided trip as your guide explains to you the history and other intersesting facts of the beautiful area. On arrival at the Hluhluwe-iMfolozi reserve you will begin your safari, searching for animals as you make your way to camp. Once you check into your accommodation, you will be taken on a sunset game drive. Enjoy the sights and sounds of the African bush, stopping along the banks of the Umfolozi River for sundowners and snacks, then it is back to camp. Freshen up before joining your guide around the camp fire whilst a braai (BBQ) dinner is prepared. Hopefully some night animals will come around for a visit, hyena and bushbabies being regulars…
Day 2 – Full day Big 5 Safari
It is an early rise as you embark on another game drive, after a hot cup of coffee and tea. Early game drives, when the sun is just peaking over the savanna is the ideal time to catch the night time predators still moving about. Depending on the season this drive is about 4 hours, but also depends on how much is being seen!! Mid-drive we stop for tea/ coffee and snack break just to help those grumbling tummies. Then the drive continues as the sun warms up the bushveld and the day animals zebra, giraffe, elephant and other antelopes begin to move about. We return to camp for a scrumptious brunch, cooked for you by your guide. Then the next few hours are your own to do as you please. Take a walk around camp and enjoy the birdlife and all the common animals that like to feed on the manicured lawns. Sit and enjoy the views or even have a small ‘siesta’. Then once again enjoy an afternoon game drive hopefully to keep adding to your now ever increasing game viewing list. Enjoy another beautiful sunset and then some more camp fire stories and a traditional South African meal. Look upwards to the stars, the lack of artificial light lends itself to amazing star gaxzing and your guide will help you to indentify the various constellations.
Day 3 – Final Game Drive & St. Lucia Estuary Experience
Wake early again to the smell of fresh coffee and off on your final game drive, your guide will be intent on finding what is left to see. Return to camp for breakfast before packing your bags and checking out. Have a final hour or so in the reserve as you make your way to the exit gate and depart at around midday. We drive across to the St. Lucia Wetland and estuary, home to the largest population of hipoo and nile crocdile in Africa. After checking into your accommodation enjoy a 2 hour boast cruise on the estuary and up into the Reserve. Expect to see hippo and crocodile, with a myriad of bord species, as well as antelope and other animals. Return as the sun sets and enjoy a dinner out in the quaint little town of St. Lucia (own account). After which jump onto a game drive vehicle and go for a night drive in the iSimangaliso Wetland Park. This will afford you a fantastic opportunity to see some nocturnal wildlife. Search for hyena, bushbabies, chemeleons and the elusive leopard!! after the night drive it is off to bed for a much needed sleep…
Day 4 – Final Day
Today’s start will not be as early but still earlier enough as you enter the iSimangaliso Reserve and make your way towards the beach paradise of Cape Vidal. Beautiful views and 100s of birds to spot are the hallmark of this place, along with 4 of the Big 5 to see. Cape vidal beach is unspoilt paradise, with amazing snorkelling and hiking to indulge in. Enjoy a picnic lunch, but just watch out the endangered Samango Monkeys don’t steal it! After exiting the park we then leave St. Lucia and make our way back towards Durban where your guide will drop you at your required destination.
Duration:
3 Nights and 4 days
Price:
$ 880 USD
Included:
- Guided transfers to the Reserves and return to Durban
- All meals except dinner out in the town of St. Lucia (2 dinners, 3 breakfasts, 3 snack lunches, tea/ coffee and breakfast snacks for all days)
- Entrance fees all 3 days to the reserves
- Activities (Hippo and croc boat cruise and 1 open vehicle game drive)
- Unlimited closed vehicle game drives
- 3 night accommodation within the reserve bungalows.
Not Included:
- Alcoholic drinks (limited refreshments and water are provided)
- Gratuities, flights and optional activities (Cheetah Rehabilitation center, kayaking, fishing, night game drives, turtle tours, whale watching)
Other Tours:
Day Tours
Adventure:
ORIBI GORGE DAY TOUR
SANI PASS & LESOTHO DAY TOUR
SHARK CAGE DIVING
TREE TOP CANOPY TOUR
Cultural and Sight Seeing:
BREWERY TOUR – MIDLANDS MEANDER
CITY TOUR
VALLEY OF 1000 HILLS
Game Viewing:
UMFOLOZI BIG 5 GAME RESERVE
CAPE VIDAL & EASTERN SHORES RESERVE
ST LUCIA WETLAND
TALA GAME RESERVE
Tour Packages
SAFARI TOURS
ZINGELA RIVER SAFARI TOUR
SHAYAMANZI HOUSE BOATS TOUR
6 DAY BIRDING TOUR
Contact Endless Summer Tours:
- Address: 193 Peter Mokaba Road, Morningside, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal
- Email: [email protected]
- Phone number: (+27) 84 0650802 or (+27) 87 8085091
- Tripadvisor pages: http://www.tripadvisor.co.za/Attraction_Review-g312595-d4061845-Reviews-Endless_Summer_Tours_Day_Tours-Durban_KwaZulu_Natal.html
- Facebook pages: https://www.facebook.com/EndlessSummerToursSA
- Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZAFyPtUOsFacXQY213V50A
