Platteland Tours take people on the back roads, through small towns and visit interesting places on Self-Drive Guided Road Trips to explore South Africa.
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Drive your own vehicle - Covid-19 friendly. NO 4x4's needed. Self-drive guided road trips in Southern Africa
27/08/2024
Road Trips in Your Own Vehicle - September 2024 e-Newsletter
PLATTELAND TOURS (Since 1975 in Tourism) Platteland Tours monthly e-Newsletter # 9 of 2024, September 2024 E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.plattelandtours.co.za Tel: 082 920 6908 Lots of photos on Facebook: Platteland Tours PO Box 17406, Sunward Park 1470, Gauteng
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A one-minute video of our recent Road Trip to Namaqualand: 21st to 28th Aug 2021.
Credit to one of our passengers on tour: Nalenie Maganbeharie.
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Local self-drive guided ROAD TRIPS are the way to travel to stay within the COVID-19 safety regulations
If you want to travel again, stay safe and healthy, the new trendy words in tourism are:
Let's go on a ROAD TRIP!
Johan Badenhorst, founder and previous owner of the long-standing tour operating company, JB Train Tours (Since 1975), has launched a new travel company called Platteland Tours. This exciting & out-of-the-box new company, based in Johannesburg, South Africa, was born after identifying the need for travelling within the COVID-19 regulations in South Africa:Drive your own vehicle, be part of the convoy and follow the lead car driven by the tour leader.
The newly designed Platteland Tours road trips will be done in a self-drive format, meaning travellers will travel in the comfort and safety of their own vehicles with their own family and/or friends accompanying them, hence social distancing will be adhered to. No logistical planning from the travellers' side will be required or dreading getting lost as the tour will be guided and coordinated by a well-informed tour leader which will drive in the leading car of the convoy. Two-way radios (walkie talkies) will be made available to all the vehicles for proper communication to ensure that everyone is informed of the places of interest en-route and to share relevant information. The travel group will be limited to ten vehicles.
At this stage, eight different routes and destinations have been identified and developed – these road trips will definitely present themselves as not-to-be-missed experiences. The road trips vary between 3 and 9 days and all of them depart from Gauteng, however, people can join en-route as well.
These road trips have all been put together to be COVID-19 friendly. The accommodation as well as places of interest which will be visited en-route will all adhere to the safety regulations.
If everything goes according to 'plan', the South African Tourism industry should open by September 2020. Marketing Director of Platteland Tours, Joléne Matthysen, says that they she is positive about the opening of this industry by this time and therefore they have already scheduled the first road trips to run in September this year. The 2021 road trip programme has also been developed and packaged and will also be released soon.”
