Spiritual Tours
CULTURAL/SPIRITUAL SOUTH-AFRICA
11 Nights & 12 Days Overland
BACKGROUND
South Africa, the ‘rainbow nation’ with its turbulent history of various cultures having made their home here (African, Asian and Western) is one of the most spiritual countries in the world. The challenges the population has to grapple with on a daily basis: poverty, crime, and conflict, has prompted a massive turn to religion many ways and manifestations: in the white Afrikaner churches, packed every Sunday to the brim; the African Zionist Christian Church-groups gathered under trees; the lively township churches singing and dancing away; the serene mosques and Hindu temples that dot the cities; the daily opportunities to reach out to the sick, the poor and the hungry….
It is our belief that South Africa is increasingly going to be the global centre of people coming to seek and find meaning and signficance in their lives and reconnect to God that lives in us all.
TOUR PROGRAMME
Day 1: Thursday: Arrival
Arrive on O R Tambo-airport, Johannesburg.
Check in hotel/guest house.
Dinner at hotel and Introduction talk: “About us” (on the Western and African world-views in SA)
O/n Pretoria
Day 2: Friday: Pretoria city and Mandela Village township
Pretoria city tour: visit Voortrekker Monument & Freedom Park (with small reconciliation ceremony).
Mandela Village township tour: attend a brief sermon by charismatic Father Jaconia (Anglican priest who built his church from scrap metal). Also visit a housewife in tin hut and the sangoma training school. Learn how these traditional healers are being called and the training they go through.
Dinner in Khuwana tavern with beautiful art work on the walls.
O/n Pretoria
Day 3: Saturday: Ndebele Royal visit and Home dinner
Ndebele Royal visit: learn about the protocol in approaching the Royal Kraal, meet Ndebele family, visit Roman Catholic Church painted in Ndebele colours, voted one of the most beautiful indigenous churches in the world; meet famous Ndebele artists; have lunch with the queen!
Dinner in SA Home (groups will divide in smaller groups of 6 people each and be hosted by South African families.
O/n Pretoria
Day 4: Sunday: Onverwacht and Pretoria Dutch Reformed church
Church sermon in Onverwacht, a quaint coloured community living just outside Cullinan. The sermon is in Afrikaans and is moving because of its simplicity and honesty. Afterwards go on a donkey-cart ride through town and have lunch with the residents. Back to Pretoria and rest of the day at leisure.
Evening: Optional: church sermon in Moreleta Park, one of the Afrikaner-mega churches (Dutch Reformed).
O/n Pretoria
Day 5: Monday: Township outreach & Soweto-by-night
Present a soup-kitchen to a pre-school in informal settlement and go on a political-historical tour of Soweto. See Hector Pieterson Memorial (commemmorating the 1976-youth uprisings against apartheid), Vilakazi Street (only street in the world where two Nobel peace prize-winners used to live0, and dinner in one of the famous restaurants.
o/n Pretoria
Day 6: Thursday: Greater Kruger Safari
Depart for to Kruger National Park-area and arrive at your camp in time for your sundowner game-drive.
O/n Game Reserve Greater Kruger area.
Day 7: Friday: Greater Kruger Safari
Game viewing and relax in the African bush.
O/n Game Reserve Greater Kruger area
Day 8: Saturday: Cape Town
Depart back to Johannesburg. Take late afternoon flight to Cape Town.
O/n Cape Town.
Day 9: Sunday: Cape Town Gospel tour
Cape Town Gospel tour in Baptist and Methodist churches in Langa-township. Rest of the day at leisure.
O/n Cape Town.
Day 10: Monday: Cultural Cape Town
Cultural Cape Town city tour. District Six-museum, lunch in Cape Malay-quarters in Bo-Kaap. Township-tour in Khayelitsha.
Home dinner in Bonteheuwel (Cape coloured family).
O/n Cape Town.
Day 11: Tuesday: Cape Town
Day at leisure. Shopping in V&A Waterfront or excursion to Robben Island (optional)
O/n Cape Town
Day 12: Wednesday: Departure
Flight back to Johannesburg or country of origin.
Church sermon Onverwacht
Code:
Duration: 4-6 hours
Departure: Pretoria
Min/max pax: 1-40
Cost (ZAR): R880,00 p.p
Highlights: Neighbourhood tour, Church sermon, Coffee/tea with residents
Gospel tour Cape Town
Code:
Duration: 4-6 hours
Departure: Pretoria
Min/max pax: 1-40
Cost (ZAR): R880,00 p.p
Highlights: Neighbourhood tour, Church sermon, Coffee/tea with residents