KwaZulu Natal Battlefields Tour - 5 Days (Code T17)

Detailed Tour Itinerary
Day 1: KwaZulu Natal - Dundee
After breakfast guests will be collected by their guide from where the road leads to the northwestern Kwa Zulu Natal famous for its battlefields. The winding road will lead to your overnight destination in Dundee. Battle related sites will be visited on the route to Dundee, as well as the Talana Battlefield Museum if time allows. The battlefield of Talana marks the first serious clash of modern warfare supported by long-range artillery.

Day 2: KwaZulu Natal - Dundee
Guests will visit Blood River, the Ncome and Talana Museum during the day. Blood River Monument is a tribute to the battle of Blood River in 1838. The granite Jaw-bone Monument and bronze wagon laager was built on the original site of the 1838 wagon laager. It consists of 64 replica Voortrekker wagons cast in bronze situated on the site of the famous battle between the Afrikaners and the Zulu. The Ncome Museum is built in the shape of a Zulu war horn formation. The museum offers a re-interpretation of the 1838 battle and the Zulu culture in general. The last stop of the day will be at the Talana Museum, named after the hill at the base of which the museum is situated meaning “the shelf where precious items are stored”. The museum was opened in 1979 to commemorate the Anglo Zulu war.

Day 4: KwaZulu Natal - Drakensberg
From Dundee, guests will make their way to Ladysmith where a stop will be made at the Siege Museum. The museum is considered to be the best Anglo Boer War Museum in the country and had its humble beginning as a vegetable market place in 1884. Today it houses one of the greatest collections of artifacts from the Siege of Ladysmith & the Anglo Boer War of 1899 - 1902. From Ladysmith we make our way to the Drakensberg Mountains, named by the early Dutch Settlers for their resemblance to the ridges of a Dragon's Back. The steep ridges of the mountains were formed by the headwater erosion of rivers which separate South Africa's Highveld Plateau from the coastal lowlands.

Day 5: Departure
A morning spent at leisure in inspiring mountain scenery is followed by a return journey to Johannesburg where guests are assisted with check in at the airport or alternatively transferred to any location of their choice in either Johannesburg or Pretoria after a memorable South African tour.