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.
Drive your own vehicle - Covid-19 friendly. NO 4x4's needed. Self-drive guided road trips in Southern Africa
19/11/2024
Road Trips in Your Own Vehicle - December 2024 e-Newsletter
PLATTELAND TOURS (Since 1975 in Tourism) Almost 50 years! Platteland Tours monthly e-Newsletter # 12 of 2024, December 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
11/11/2024
ROAD TRIP to ESWATINI, KRUGER PARK & LOWVELD
19th to 25th May 2025
Monday to Sunday
7 Days
Tour price is R8500 per person – money well spent!
A small deposit will secure your spot.
DO YOUR 2025 ROAD TRIP BOOKINGS NOW
Departing from Gauteng, this road trip in your own vehicle, will take you from Gauteng via the Highveld to neighbouring country Eswatini (previously Swaziland), then into the Mpumalanga Lowveld and the Kruger National Park (KNP) and back to Gauteng again. (No 4 x 4 is needed). Join en route at any place suitable to you.
This is the adjusted 4-day trip to Eswatini, hosted previous years, by adding some more interesting stops whilst in the Lowveld.
Discover and enjoy our interesting neighbouring country. Sleep in good guest houses & lodges and enjoy good meals, friendly people, hidden gems and beautiful nature. We do NOT do camping.
You’ll go to places in Eswatini like the glass factory, a local market, a culture centre, the candle factory and a Swazi Game Park, plus traveling on some back roads in beautiful nature. We overnight in a beautiful historical guest lodge.
The tour takes you into the Strydom Block in Mpumalanga where sugar cane and a variety of vegetables are produced. We’ll visit sugar cane farms and a milling plant in operation. We overnight two nights in Marloth Park where game roams freely – right up to your door!
One day is spent in the KNP (use your Wild Card for free entry) before arriving at The Lift outside Graskop. This tourist attraction & destination is worthwhile spending time. Lots of adrenaline activities are available as well. I.e.: Big Swing, Cliff Walk, etc.
Visit many spectacular water falls in the Sabie area when overnighting in the Long Tom Pass. There you’ll have the opportunity to do participate in a thrilling Toboggan ride.
When driving in your own car you enjoy the benefits of your own vehicle. No speeding, no difficult or technical routes or roads and no stress about where to drive or where to go.
All vehicles are supplied with high quality two-way radios. Everyone is well informed and updated. We travel in a convoy and nobody gets lost. When there is a puncture or technical challenge, we all stop and solve the problem together. This is SAFE TRAVELLING in a group.
We travel just more than 1500 km and you travel safely in a convoy. Maximum 11 vehicles.
Ideal for families, couples and singles.
Contact Johan Badenhorst at Platteland Tours (Since 1975 in tourism) to obtain the complete Info Doc & Booking Form OR obtain it on our website.
Visit our page to see many photos of previous and recent tours.
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: www.plattelandtours.co.za
Tel: 082 920 6908
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/plattelandtours
PO Box 17406, Sunward Park, Gauteng 1470
10/11/2024
ROAD TRIP to BOTSWANA, VIC FALLS & CAPRIVI
3rd to 16th May & 11th to 24th Oct 2025
Saturday to Friday
14 Days
Tour price is R26500 per person – money well spent!
DO YOUR 2025 ROAD TRIP BOOKINGS NOW
Departing from Gauteng, this road trip in your own vehicle, will take you from Gauteng via the Limpopo province to all the popular sight-seeing spots in Botswana, plus a few hidden gems, as well as via the Caprivi (in Namibia) to Victoria Falls (in Zimbabwe) and back to Gauteng again. (No 4 x 4 is needed). Join en route at any place suitable to you.
Both the 2024 tours, as well as the May 2025 tour, were fully booked.
Discover and enjoy our interesting neighbouring country. Sleep in good lodges & hotels and enjoy good meals, friendly people, hidden gems and beautiful nature. We do NOT do camping.
You’ll go to places like the Okavango Delta, Makgadigadi Pans, Tsodilo Hills, as well as the towns of Maun, Divindu, Francistown, Kasane, and a few more.
Sleep on the banks of the Kavango River and hear the wild animals and game at night. View the mighty Zambesi River and the spectacular Victoria Falls.
Visit the Chobe Game Park and do a sunset cruise on the Chobe River observing lots of elephants, buffalo, crocodile, antelope, giraffe and much more. Experience Africa with beautiful sunsets.
When driving in your own car you enjoy the benefits of your own vehicle. No speeding, no difficult or technical routes or roads and no stress about where to drive or where to go.
All vehicles are supplied with high quality two-way radios. Everyone is well informed and updated. We travel in a convoy and nobody gets lost. When there is a puncture or technical challenge, we all stop and solve the problem together. This is safe traveling in a group.
We travel just more than 3800 km and you travel safely in a convoy. Maximum 11 vehicles.
Ideal for families, couples and singles.
Contact Johan Badenhorst at Platteland Tours (Since 1975 in tourism) to obtain the complete Info Doc & Booking Form OR obtain it on our website.
Visit our page to see many photos of previous and recent tours.
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: www.plattelandtours.co.za
Tel: 082 920 6908
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/plattelandtours
PO Box 17406, Sunward Park, Gauteng 1470
05/11/2024
ROAD TRIP to SOUTHERN CAPE MOUNTAIN PASSES
27th September to 4th October 2025
Saturday to Saturday
8 Days
Tour price is R11500 per person.
This tour starts outside the town of Mossel Bay in the southern Cape and ends in the Karoo town of Calitzdorp, but people can travel with the tour leader back to Gauteng afterwards. This tour is pre-seeded by the 7-day Western Cape. Consider doing both back to back!
Travel in your own vehicle – any normal sedan, SUV or ‘bakkie’. NO 4x4 is needed.
Go and discover the Garden Route, Little Karoo and Knysna Forests. Ride on back roads, discover unknown small towns, spectacular and scenic forest roads. It will be spring and the fields will be beautiful and green.
Go and ride, drive and explore another beautiful regions in our country. Sleep in good guest houses, a beautiful Inn and a lodge overlooking the ocean, enjoy good meals, cold wine, friendly people and beautiful nature. NO camping.
You’ll traverse 60+ mountain passes, mostly on tar and gravel. None of these mountain passes are technically difficult or challenging. It is a joy to ride it.
Traverse some of the well-known passes like Outeniqua, Meiringspoort, Huisrivier, Robinson, Swartberg and Montagu, as well as lesser known passes like Prince Alfred, Paardehoek, Seweweekspoort, Kruisriver, the Seven Passes route and many more.
Though, it will not be only driving. We stop at interesting tourist spots, like the Big Tree, Nature’s Valley, Belvidere, and we pay a visit to the Cango Caves (time permitting).
Traveling on these picturesque back roads will expose a new part of the country to you. Many of our previous travellers were mesmerised by the natural beauty of the different regions, though they have travelled in the area before.
All vehicles are supplied with high quality two-way radios. Everyone is well informed and updated. We travel in a convoy and nobody gets lost. When there is a puncture or technical challenge, we all stop and solve the problem together. This is safe traveling in a group.
We travel just more than 1500 km (circular routes) and you travel safely in a convoy. Maximum 11 vehicles.
Ideal for families, couples and singles. For anybody.
Contact Johan Badenhorst at Platteland Tours (Since 1975 in tourism) to obtain the complete Info Doc & Booking Form OR obtain it on our website.
ROAD TRIP to WESTERN CAPE MOUNTAIN PASSES
21st to 27th September 2025
Sunday to Saturday
7 Days
Tour price is R9950 per person.
This tour starts and ends in student town Stellenbosch, but people can travel with the tour leader from Gauteng to Stellenbosch. Join en route at any place suitable to you.
Go and discover the Boland, Overberg & Peninsula like never before. Ride on back roads, beautiful and scenic. It will be spring and the vineyards and flowers will be at their greenest best.
Ride, drive and enjoy one of the most beautiful regions in our country. Sleep in a good guest house, all six nights, and enjoy good meals, cold wine, friendly people and beautiful nature. NO camping.
You’ll traverse 45+ mountain passes, mostly on tar. None of these mountain passes are technically difficult or challenging. It is a joy to ride it.
Traverse some of the well-known passes like Bainskloof, Du Toitskloof, Michells, Sir Lowrey’s and Franschhoek, as well as lesser known passes like Akkedisberg, Helshoogte, Gydo, Paarlberg and Karweiderskraal.
Though, it will not be only driving. We stop at interesting tourist spots, like the Fossil Park at Langebaan Road, and we pay a visit to the West Coast National Park during the flower season.
Listen to the story of Just Nuisance and see Cape Town from angles you’ve never experienced before.
All vehicles are supplied with high quality two-way radios. Everyone is well informed and updated. We travel in a convoy and nobody gets lost. When there is a puncture or technical challenge, we all stop and solve the problem together. This is safe traveling in a group.
We travel just more than 2200 km (circular route) and you travel safely in a convoy. Maximum 11 vehicles.
Ideal for families, couples and singles. For anybody.
This tour is followed by the 8-day tour of the Mountain Passes in the Southern Cape (Knysna, George, Garden Route & Oudtshoorn area). Consider doing both tours!
Contact Johan Badenhorst at Platteland Tours (Since 1975 in tourism) to obtain the complete Info Doc & Booking Form OR obtain it on our website.
ROAD TRIP to LESOTHO
9th to 15th March 2025
Sunday to Saturday
7 Days
DO YOUR 2025 ROAD TRIP BOOKINGS NOW
Departing from Gauteng, this road trip in your own vehicle, will take you from Gauteng via Kestell in the Free State to the Mountain Country, Lesotho. (No 4 x 4 is needed). Join en route at any place suitable to you.
The 2024 tour was fully booked.
Discover and enjoy our small and interesting neighbouring country. Sleep in good lodges & hotels and enjoy good meals, fresh fish, friendly people and beautiful nature. NO camping.
Meet the local people and visit local markets on the back roads, visit the Lesotho Highlands water Scheme, including the Katse Dam (providing fresh water to Gauteng).
See, experience and discover new places and interesting tourist spots. E.g.: Afriski, the highest waterfall in Lesotho, a cultural village, Sani Pass (optional), traverse various spectacular mountain passes and much more.
All vehicles are supplied with high quality two-way radios. Everyone is well informed and updated. We travel in a convoy and nobody gets lost. When there is a puncture or technical challenge, we all stop and solve the problem together. This is safe traveling in a group.
We travel just more than 2100 km (circular route) and you travel safely in a convoy. Maximum 11 vehicles.
Tour price is R9300 per person.
Ideal for families, couples and singles.
Contact Johan Badenhorst at Platteland Tours (Since 1975 in tourism) to obtain the complete Info Doc & Booking Form OR obtain it on our website.
Visit our page to see many photos of previous and recent tours.
E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.plattelandtours.co.za
Tel: 082 920 6908 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/plattelandtours
PO Box 17406, Sunward Park, Gauteng 1470
27/10/2024
Road Trips in Your Own Vehicle - November 2024 e-Newsletter
PLATTELAND TOURS (Since 1975 in Tourism) Platteland Tours monthly e-Newsletter # 11 of 2024, November 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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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.”
