The Jacaranda City , so named for the thousands of Jacaranda trees which line its streets and transform the city to a purple wonderland during Spring when the trees are in full bloom, is the focus of this excursion. A tour of the city's highlights is on the agenda as the tour visits the Union Buildings with its commanding view of the City from its setting against the slope of Meintjieskop. The building currently houses the office of the South African president. Designed by the famous British Architect Sir Herbert Baker , it is regarded as one of the Countries architectural masterpieces. Visits are also made to the Voortrekker Monument which bears testament to a people's pioneering spirit before visiting the period museum which is Melrose House. Melrose house was the location where the Anglo Boer war officially ended with the signing of the peace of Vereniging in 1902.

The afternoon leads the Group to the east of Pretoria and the village of Cullinan where the world's largest Diamond was discovered in 1905. This great diamond weighed in at an amazing 3106 carats in the rough and was transformed by the Asscher Brothers in Amsterdam to the magnificent stones which grace the British Crown Jewels. A tour of the mine sheds some light on the process by which these most noble of the earths stones were formed under great pressure and heat millions of years ago, and on the way in which man extracts them from the earth and shapes them into the desirable objects they become in the jewelry stores of the world.