 Bhejane
4X4 Adventures was formed with the vision of conducting guided self
drive 4X4 trails into the remoter areas of Southern Africa. Our
objective is to involve everyone in the ecological, historical,
cultural, ornithological components of the areas we visit. Depending on
the destination, adventure tourism activities are integrated into the
tour and include walking trails, photography, game tracking, bird
watching, fishing, diving and boating excursions.
 The tour dynamics allow
you and your family to enjoy the trip from the privacy of your own
vehicle, while ensuring your safety and comfort in the camaraderie of
group participation. All vehicles are issued with hand-held radios to
facilitate communication between participants and expeditions are fully
catered by a professional chef. The team’s language skills enable us to
share our knowledge in either English, Afrikaans, Zulu or Tswana.
 The team
The team will be led by a
highly skilled tour guide with extensive experience in tour guiding,
4x4 driver training, and biological interpretation and with a vast
knowledge of the history and culture of all the areas we will be
visiting. Three meals a day will be prepared by our experienced bush
chef in his mobile kitchen, with fresh salads, potjiekos, braais and
many other surprises appearing on the menu. We provide all the tents,
tables, chairs, cutlery and crockery and our logistics crew will pitch
and take down the camps at all the overnight stops we visit.  Should
you experience any difficulty, the Bhejane crew do have the “know how”
and recovery equipment to assist with most off-road problems.
Though our bush-camps may be rustic, you will at all times be safe; the
crew will spare no effort to make you comfortable, provide you with
good wholesome food and, most importantly, see that you have a good
time.
All the prices quoted
include:
- 14% VAT
- All hotel and lodge
accommodation
- All camp fees
- Three meals a day
- All park entrance fees
- All advertised activities
- Bhejane Adventures
provides all tent, tables and chairs
- Coffee & Tea – all
day every day whilst in camp
Children
Children under the age of ten years @ 50%
What you need to bring:
- You and your family
- Your passport
- Your vehicle & fuel
- Your own mattresses and
sleeping bags
- Your own drinks and
in-between snacks
Private tours
Private and corporate tours, at dates of your choice and to
destinations of your choice, can be arranged.
Circumstances beyond
our control
Though this would not be done lightly or without good reason, the
Adventure tour dates could be subject to change. We will however keep
you informed in our three monthly newsletters, should this happen.
2010 TOURS
Central Kalahari
& Mabuasehube/Kgalagadi Trans Frontier Park
6 February to 15
February 2010
19 February to 28
February 2010
9 night / 10 day
adventure (tented accommodation)
Cost: R 9,650 per
person (children under 10 @ 50%)
Join us on "The Highwayman's Adventure Route" on deep sand tracks
through the vast expanse of Southern Africa’s largest conservation
area. The Central Kalahari Park is the largest in Southern Africa,
twice the size of the Kruger National Park, it boasts a number of
unique endemic species of fauna and flora.
Starting at Khama Rhino Sanctuary in the north, we wind our way through
the parks, camping "rough" in the bush, to where the adventure ends in
Nossop.
Towards the end of summer, presuming reasonable rains have fallen in
the area, the Kgalagadi is noted for its large number of resident
eagles, such as the Martial, Tawny, Black Breasted, Snake and Bateleur.
These are joined in February and March by the migrant raptors, the
Booted Eagle and Steppe Buzzard, and the rare Lesser Spotted Eagle. We
hope to be there when the numbers of eagles will be at their highest.
However, we must not forget all the other wildlife we expect to see in
the harsh but magnificent Kgalagadi Trans-frontier.
Sani Pass - Trans
Lesotho Adventure
14 March to 17 March
2010
3 night / 4 day
adventure (guest house accommodation)
Cost: R 4,000 per
person (children under 10 @ 50%)
This long weekend is a must for any 4x4 or sports utility enthusiast;
if you have not yet "tamed the dragon" you can now safely do so in the
comfort of your own vehicle. Though the Sani Pass is awesome, no
previous 4x4 experience is required.
This adventure traverses Lesotho from east to west over the highest
mountain passes in Africa and includes a visit to the mighty Katse Dam.
Our overnight stops are spent in the comfort of Cariad Heights Guest
House in the Natal Midlands and the Bella Rosa Guest House in the
Eastern Free State.
This Sani Pass tour can conveniently be combined with the Drive Out
Reader's - Lesotho Kindgdom tour below.
Lesotho-Kingdom in
the Sky-Drive Out Reader's Tour
19 March to 23 March
2010
4 night / 5 day
adventure (guest house accommodation)
Cost: R 5,550 per
person (children under 10 @ 50%)
You and your family will enjoy the experience of navigating mountain
tracks with names such as "Jockstrap Pass" and "God Help Me Pass" which
sit at an average height of over 2 500m above sea leve. Join us
on our self-drive trip in Western Lesotho.
Trans Botswana -
Caprivi - Victoria Falls & Chobe National Park
2 April to 12 April
2010
14 June to 24 June
2010
25 June to 5 July
2010
12 July to 22 July
2010
23 July to 2 August
2010
24 September to 4
October 2010
10 night / 11 day
adventure (tented accommodation)
Cost: R 7,950 per
person (children under 10 @ 50%)
Follow the contrast from the vast sand flats of the Makgadigadi Pans,
to the papyrus lined canals of the Okavango Delta and experience the
magnificent Chobe National Park on a game drive in an open safari
vehicle and a boat cruise on the Chobe River.
Join us to discover the marvels of this geological intrigue as we
travel from Kubu Island on into the Caprivi Strip via the mysterious
Tsodilo Hills, eastwards along the Chobe River and on to the mighty
Zambesi at the Victoria Falls.
Hluhluwe, Umfolozi
& Maputuland - Refuge of the Rhino
29 April to 4 May
2010
5 night / 6 day
adventure (chalet accommodation)
Cost: R 6,950 per
person (children under 10 @ 50%)
Take this opportunity to drive and walk in South Africa's oldest game
reserve, and royal hunting ground of Shaka Zulu. Frank and one of his
former Zulu colleagues will enhance this experience and share anecdotes
of rhino protection, game capture and Zulu history.
Accessible to only 4X4's, Maputaland's sand tracks meander past
fresh-water inland lakes, under tropical tree canopies and to beaches
lined with coral reefs.
Faces of the Namib
Desert
23 May to 28 May 2010
17 October to 22
October 2010
6 night / 5 day
adventure (tented accomodation)
Cost: R 6,000 per
person (children under 10 @ 50%)
A world of infinite horizons, dramatic desertscapes and a diverse
wonder of unique Namib Desert fauna & flora. Do you believe that
travel should be so much more than just looking – and that every
journey should be a life enriching experience? Do you yearn to go
off-the-beaten-track and experience unspoilt nature? If your answer is
YES, then you MUST experience the Namib Desert!
The Namib Desert is a unique part of Southern Africa, which on first
impression looks dangerous and devoid of any life. This
impression however, is very deceiving, as the Namib is full of
surprises with a rich treasure of discovery for those fascinated by its
unique beauty and to safely traverse these mighty dunes is a truly
humbling experience.
Reported to be the oldest desert on earth, the Namib is approximately
80 million years old. Completely devoid of surface water, it is
bisected by several dry riverbeds and is characterised by extensive,
undulating dunes.
Mozambique - Big
Game to Coral Reefs
25 June to 3 July
2010
4 July to 12 July
2010
25 September to 3
October 2010
4 October to 12
October 2010
8 night / 9 day
adventure (tented & chalet accommodation)
Cost: R 8,250 or
(R7650 tented & room acc)
Starting in the magnificent Kruger Park, we travel east into the lush
lowlands of Mozambique, we cross the mighty Limpopo and on to the
coastal flood plains.
In chalets almost on the beach, near the town of Ihhassoro, overlooking
Bazaruto Island, we can experience the true feeling of this tropical
paradise.
Having obtained permits to do so, we explore the tropical beaches,
discovering the wonders of the coral lined coast, and with luck, we may
encounter the elusive dugong.
Ivory Trail &
Greater Kruger National Park
8 August to 14
August 2010
6 night / 7 day
adventure (Tented bush-camp with on suite accomodation)
Cost: R 7,350 per
person (children under 10 @ 50%)
South Africa's premier game reserve KNP has in recent years become
extensively larger as its boundaries shift into transfrontier parks and
conservation areas in the form of conservancies .
Three of these areas are exclusive due to their 4x4 access only. The
Makuya area in the northwest, the Letaba Ranch area in the central west
and the Manyaletie area bordering the Sabi Sands . We spend two
nights in each area, in private camps with tented bush lodge
accommodation that only sleep ten people.
This is a private safari with high-tech game viewing, guided drives and
walks, at a very competitive rate.
Lesotho-Kingdom in
the Sky
17 September to 21
September 2010
4 night / 5 day
adventure (guest house accommodation)
Cost: R 5,250 per
person (children under 10 @ 50%)
You and your family will enjoy the experience of navigating mountain
tracks with names such as "Jockstrap Pass" and "God Help Me Pass" which
sit at an average height of over 2 500m above sea leve. Join us
on our self-drive trip in Western Lesotho.
Etosha-Skeleton
Coast, Land of the Desert Rhino
20 August to 31
August 2010
2 September to 13
September 2010
11 night / 12 day
adventure (tented accommodation)
Cost: R 8,950 per
person (children under 10 @ 50%)
After the brief summer rains have come and gone the Etosha becomes a
great, dry ghostly place, with mirages shimmering over its vast 130 x
50 kilometre expanse. The verges of the lake are however, well treed
and grassed, with several springs providing water for the numerous
animals and birds which live permanently around the pan.
A visit to Etosha and the Skeleton Coast is a never to be forgotten
experience for the connoisseur of scenery, atmosphere and the unusual
that only the "dorsland" of the Kalahari and the Namib can offer.
Zambia-Liuwa Plains
Wildebeest Migration
1 November to 10
November 2010
9 night / 10 day
adventure (Tented Accomodation)
Cost: R 9,450 per
person (children under 10 @ 50%)
Our route takes us from Kasane in Botswana to Katima Mulilo in Namibia,
where we catch our first glimpse of the Mighty Zambezi. Following
the course of the Zambezi past the Sioma Falls we cross the Barotse
Floodplains and on through the town of Kalabo in Western Zambia
From Kalabo, we enter the Liuwa Plains National Park where we will
encounter the second biggest wildebeest migration in Africa. At
times, wildebeest and their calves can be seen in their hundreds,
followed by the predators that stalk them.
Secrets of the
Knysna Forest
0 night / 1 day
adventure (n\a)
Cost: R350 per
person
The Knysna forests conjure images from Dalene Matthee's well-read
stories, phantom elephants, Italian settlers and lost travellers.
Bhejane 4X4 Adventures have recently obtained permission to explore
this forest realm of giant yellowwoods and ancient lichens. This
highly protected ecosystem, that holds many secrets, has been
off-limits to anybody, other than those prepared to tackle the forest
paths on foot or by mountain bike. We invite you to join us on a
professionally guided 4X4 self-drive exploration of the Knysna forests
to unlock some of the forest's best kept secrets.
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