Africa’s West Coast: A Grand Voyage from South Africa to Morocco

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This trip has been discontinued. Instead see Cycle Tanzania & South Africa A South Africa Family Safari South Africa Highlight Voyage up the beautiful west coast of Africa, go ashore in 12 countries and discover many UNESCO World Heritage Sites on this in-depth expedition. Encounter wildlife up close, discover r...
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Overview

Trip type
Group Tour
Lodging level
Standard - 3 star
Physical level
Moderate
Trip pace
Balanced schedule

Highlights

    • Ride a cable car to the top of South Africa’s Table Mountain for spectacular views.
    • Spend two days exploring the Bissagos Islands, a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, on Zodiac boat excursions.
    • Encounter the monkeys, crocodiles and birds of Abuko Nature Reserve in The Gambia.

What's this trip about?

    This trip has been discontinued. Instead see Cycle Tanzania & South Africa A South Africa Family Safari South Africa Highlight Voyage up the beautiful west coast of Africa, go ashore in 12 countries and discover many UNESCO World Heritage Sites on this in-depth expedition. Encounter wildlife up close, discover remote islands by Zodiac boat, interact with locals and much more.

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Details

Itinerary focusClassic Highlights
Group sizeIntimate group - 12 max
Age rangeNo age restrictions
Flights and transport
Start CityCape Town
End CityMarrakesh

Travel Themes

  • Nature & Wildlife
  • 50 Plus
  • Education / Learning
  • National Parks

Destinations

Activities

  • Cooking
  • Educational/ Learning
  • Historic Sightseeing
  • Sailing
  • Wildlife Viewing
  • Wine Tasting

Trip includes

    • 31 nights of accommodations
    • 91 meals: 31 breakfasts, 30 lunches, 30 dinners
    • 22 Expert-led lectures
    • 16 Field trips
    • Learning led by expert instructors who are authorities in the field of study.
    • An experienced Group Leader attuned to the needs of Road Scholar participants.
    • Customary gratuities throughout the program that you would normally pay yourself.
    • The Road Scholar Travel Assistance Plan, which is purchased on behalf of every participant and provides 24-hour-a-day emergency assistance services coverage.
    • Taxes
    • State-of-the-art QUIETVOX listening devices

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Itinerary

Travel Map

Day 1: Depart US for flights to Cape Town     

In Transit: In Flight

Day 2: En Route         

In Transit Overnight: In transit

Day 3: Arrivals / Cape Town, South Africa  

Meals: Dinner

Accommodation: The Commodore Hotel (or similar)

Arrive To: Welcome to Cape Town, South Africa, the most cosmopolitan city on the continent and one of the must stunning urban areas on earth. Transfer to the hotel and check-in for one night.

Dinner: Join your study leader for the program orientation, followed by a welcome dinner.

Day 4: Cape Town / Embarkation      

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation: M/S Expedition

Breakfast: Breakfast at the hotel

Morning: The day starts with the cable car ride to the top of Table Mountain. The plateau at 3km wide has it's highest point over 1,000 meters, and pro...

Day 5: At Sea              

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation: M/S Expedition

Breakfast: Breakfast on board the ship

Morning: Days at sea will be filled with a fascinating and entertaining educational program presented by the expert expedition team. Lectures and ...

Day 6: Luderitz, Namibia          

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation: M/S Expedition

Breakfast: Breakfast on board the ship

Morning: Spend your morning relaxing onboard the ship as you sail into Luderitz, Namibia.

Lunch: Lunch on board the ship

Afternoon: ...

Day 7: Walvis Bay, Namibia             

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation: M/S Expedition

Breakfast: Breakfast on board the ship.

Morning: The morning at sea may provide an opportunity to to see fur seals and Cape Gannets. Enjoy the educational programming, or simply relax o...

Day 8: At Sea             

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation: M/S Expedition

Breakfast: Breakfast on board the ship

Morning: Days at sea will be filled with a fascinating and entertaining educational program presented by the expert expedition team. Lectures and ...

Day 9: At Sea             

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation: M/S Expedition

Breakfast: Breakfast on board the ship

Morning: Days at sea will be filled with a fascinating and entertaining educational program presented by the expert expedition team. Lectures and ...

Day 10: Lobito (Benguela), Angola       

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation: M/S Expedition

Breakfast: Breakfast on board the ship

Morning: Today, enjoy a visit to the quaint town of Sao Felipe de Benguela in Angola. Benguela was founded by Portuguese in 1617 and has a big par...

Day 11: At Sea         

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation: M/S Expedition

Breakfast: Breakfast on board the ship

Morning: Days at sea will be filled with a fascinating and entertaining educational program presented by the expert expedition team. Lectures and ...

Day 12: Pointe Noire, Congo           

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation: M/S Expedition

Breakfast: Breakfast on board the ship

Morning: Today, visit the Congo's Pointe Noire. This morning you will visit the cliffs of Diosso Gorge to look at the red sandstone gulley, create...

Day 13: At Sea     

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation: M/S Expedition

Breakfast: Breakfast on board the ship

Morning: Days at sea will be filled with a fascinating and entertaining educational program presented by the expert expedition team. Lectures and ...

Day 14: Sao Tome and Principe  

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation: M/S Expedition

Breakfast: Breakfast on board the ship

Morning: This Portuguese colonial island nation is a tropical paradise of beaches, waterfalls, forests and friendly people. You'll visit the capit...

Day 15: Sao Tome and Principe      

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation: M/S Expedition

Breakfast: Breakfast on board the ship

Morning: Your day will take you to an old Coffee Station called Monte Cafe, reinvigorated by foreign money.

Lunch: Lunch at a local restaur...

Day 16: At Sea       

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation: M/S Expedition

Breakfast: Breakfast on board the ship

Morning: Days at sea will be filled with a fascinating and entertaining educational program presented by the expert expedition team. Lectures and ...

Day 17: Cotonou, Benin              

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation: M/S Expedition

Breakfast: Breakfast on board the ship

Morning: On the surface Cotonou seems like any other noisy and colorful African city, an impression reinforced as you move through the endless lab...

Day 18: Lome, Togo          

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation: M/S Expedition

Breakfast: Breakfast on board the ship

Morning: Following breakfast you will disembark the ship for a day of learning and discovery in and around the city of Lome. Anticipate an action-...

Day 19: Accra, Ghana      

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation: M/S Expedition

Breakfast: Breakfast on board the ship

Morning: Today's excursion takes us from the port at Tema to the busy capital of Accra. Our first stop is at a casket-maker's shop where caskets a...

Day 20: Takoradi, Ghana   

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation: M/S Expedition

Breakfast: Breakfast on board the ship

Morning: From the dock at the Ghanaian town of Takoradi, we'll explore a region steeped in the sad history of the slave trade. A visit to Elmira C...

Day 21: At Sea              

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation: M/S Expedition

Breakfast: Breakfast on board the ship

Morning: Days at sea will be filled with a fascinating and entertaining educational program presented by the expert expedition team. Lectures and ...

Day 22: At Sea              

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation: M/S Expedition

Breakfast: Breakfast on board the ship

Morning: Days at sea will be filled with a fascinating and entertaining educational program presented by the expert expedition team. Lectures and ...

Day 23: Freetown, Sierra Leone        

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation: M/S Expedition

Breakfast: Breakfast on board the ship

Morning: Today, we disembark in Freetown, Sierra Leone and spend 2 days exploring. Sierra Leone is recovering form a civil war that almost tore th...

Day 24: Freetown, Sierra Leone          

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation: M/S Expedition

Breakfast: Breakfast on board the ship

Morning: Your exploration of Freetown will continue with a visit to the Tacagumu Chimpanzee Sanctuary. Located in the much threatened Western Area...

Day 25: At Sea              

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation: M/S Expedition

Breakfast: Breakfast on board the ship

Morning: Days at sea will be filled with a fascinating and entertaining educational program presented by the expert expedition team. Lectures and ...

Day 26: Banjul, The Gambia      

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation: M/S Expedition

Breakfast: Breakfast on board the ship

Morning: Today's a special day for the bird lovers! The Gambia is known for it's abundant birdlife: Over 500 species! Today we'll visit the Abuko ...

Day 27: Dakar, Senegal         

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Accommodation: M/S Expedition

Breakfast: Breakfast on board the ship

Morning: Today we arrive in Dakar, Senegal; a bustling and energetic West African capital. We'll visit the infamous slave-trading post of Goree Island and...

Day 28: At Sea            

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation: M/S Expedition

Breakfast: Breakfast on board the ship

Morning: Days at sea will be filled with a fascinating and entertaining educational program presented by the expert expedition team. Lectures and ...

Day 29: At Sea             

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation: M/S Expedition

Breakfast: Breakfast on board the ship

Morning: Days at sea will be filled with a fascinating and entertaining educational program presented by the expert expedition team. Lectures and ...

Day 30: Dakhla, Western Sahara       

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation: M/S Expedition

Breakfast: Breafkast on board the ship

Morning: Dakhla is located in the country of West Sahara, although administered by Morocco. This is your opportunity to touch the western edge of ...

Day 31: At Sea 

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation: M/S Expedition

Breakfast: Breakfast on board the ship

Morning: Days at sea will be filled with a fascinating and entertaining educational program presented by the expert expedition team. Lectures and ...

Day 32: Fuerteventurea, Canary Islands              

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation: M/S Expedition

Breakfast: Breakfast on board the ship

Morning: Fuereventura, in the Canary Islands, is part of the newly designated UNESCO bioreserve. It is believed the first settlers came from North...

Day 33: Agadir / Marrakesh    

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation: Kenzi Farah Hotel

Breakfast: Breakfast on board the ship

Morning: We make our last open sea passage back to the continent, landing in Agadir, near the foot of the famous and wild snow capped Atlas Mou...

Day 34: Marrakesh / Departures             

Meals: Breakfast

Breakfast: Breakfast at the hotel

Morning: Free morning to explore Marrakesh

Lunch: Lunch on your own

Afternoon: Meet back at the hotel and transfer to the airport for flights returning to the U.S.

Day 35: Flights arrive in the U.S.             

Arrive To: Flights arrive back in the United States.

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Meals Included

93 meals: 32 breakfasts, 30 lunches, 31 dinners

Age Requirements
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