Transfer Requests
Arriving in the middle of the night at a foreign airport can be an intimidating experience - especially when you're faced with a bank of aggressive taxi touts. To simplify matters: Octopus Travel has launched an online private transfer booking service covering more than 250 destinations, so you can book a car (or even a limo) from the comfort of your own computer, to whisk you from airport to hotel. Plus points: you don't have to book in conjunction with a flight reservation; you can specify the languages spoken by your driver. The site gives estimated transfer times, you pay up front (so no local currency worries); and the pickup agent has your flight number, so will be aware of delays. www.octopustravel.com
Polar News
Many of you attended, and will remember hearing, Bob Headland, whom Jo Meintjes Travel paid to fly from England to Johannesburg to be keynote speaker at their Polar Seminar at St. John's School in 1997. Bob has written an interesting article in the August issue of the Geographical Magazine published in the UK Bob is the curator and archivist of the Scott Polar Institute at Cambridge University and a regular guest lecturer on polar voyages. He takes readers on a tour of Antarctica's historical huts, highlighting the need for their conservation. A copy of the article can be obtained from Jo Meintjes or on www.geographical.co.uk
Advice and Reservations on the Domestic Scene
For all neighbouring countries: South Africa, Swaziland, Lesotho, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and Indian Ocean Islands with tailor made itineraries to suit the individual interest and pocket. Accommodation can be arranged in hotel/guest lodge/B&B/self-catering with flights, train, vehicle hire, national park bookings/ private game lodges and/or wilderness trails/adventure breaks please contact Jo Meintjes' colleague with many years experience in this field ANNEMARIE BERGER email: ambertrav@telkomsanet or Tel/Fax +27 (011) 706 6629 Mobile +27 11 84 752 9000
Specialist Guides
You need someone else to arrange the tour to little known parts of southern Africa, specialist guides where necessary, organise the self-catering supplies while you offer occasionally to perform a small chore like peeling potatoes? And provided there is space, take a lift with the tour leader just paying for petrol and your share of any toll fees. To travel with like minded people of all ages or to take a Sunday hike in the vicinity of Johannesburg contact Moya Roniak at Naturebound Tours e-mail: naturebound@absamail.co.za.
TRAVEL SECURITY
Security items for suitcases and your bedroom door, if necessary at hotels which don't provide adequate security. Contact www.trekmate.co.uk and look at the security section.
ANTARCTIC
For any occasion you may want to buy gifts for friends and family or treat yourself; also available are numerous articles on what is happening in Antarctica. They also advertise special offers to Antarctica but please check these out with Jo Meintjes first. Contact www.antarcticconnection.com.
ANTARCTIC FLIGHTS
Find out more about Antarctica and experience this remote continent with your own eyes. Book an Antarctica Sightseeing Flight and you will be rewarded with the most spectacular trip of a lifetime!
www.antarcticaflights.com.au.
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