The Great Inland Tours of Africa
Every visitor to South Africa looks forward to seeing the interior of this vast land, with its splendid scenery, picturesque native life, fast-growing cities and unique wild game sanctuaries. “Caronia” passengers will have ten days from arrival at Cape Town to departure from Durban.
This makes possible Optional Tours that include most of the major highlights of travel in South Africa. These tours travel by train, air, automobile, or by combinations of all three. They are limited in membership in accordance with the facilities available.
The special trains used for the African Tours are for the exclusive use of “Caronia” passengers. They are made up of the best equipment available in South Africa — sleeping cars with single and double compartments, all lower berths. Diner-lounge cars are attached to the trains.
For the air tours modern planes and experienced flight crews are provided by the principal air lines of South Africa.
For overnight stops the best possible accommodations are reserved at leading hotels.
Important Places Visited
The African Countryside
The tours traverse some of the most typical and interesting scenery of South Africa — agriculture of the Cape Province, vast stretches of “veld”, hilly and mountainous regions.
Native life will be seen in towns in the Zululand and Swaziland territories, where the “Kraals”, grass-hut villages of the old days, are still found in great numbers.
Johannesburg
…the fabulous “City of Gold”, now has a population of nearly a million and is the largest city in Africa south of Cairo. It has many fine modern streets, tall buildings and attractive residential sections, and is the financial and industrial metropolis of South Africa.
Of special interest to visitors are the gold mines, and the mining compounds where famous native dances are performed to the music of “Kalimba” (finger) pianos.
Kimberley
“The City of Diamonds”, is 647 miles northeast cf Cape Town. It was founded in 1870 as a mining settlemert by diggers in search of diamonds, and within the next thirty years became the diamond capital of the world.
An outstanding sight is the “Big Hole”, one of the first Kimberley diamond mines, an open cutting measuring 500 yards across the top. Originally this mine was sub-divided into some 1,600 claims. Later the modern system of underground mining was introduced, a shaft was sunk and the mine was worked to a depth of 3,500 feet.
Kruger National Park
…located in the eastern Transvaal, comprises 8,000 square miles and is the world's largest national park and wild life sanctuary. The park is traversed by nearly a thousand miles of roadway, and has rest house camps at various points.
Among the big game which may be seen are lion, giraffe, hippopotamus, and many varieties of antelope.
Pretoria
…the administrative capital of the Union of South Africa, is situated 37 miles from Johannesburg. The Union Building, home of the Government, is a magnificent structure.
The Voortrekker Monument is another important sight of this garden city with its many attractive homes.
Victoria Falls
…in Southern Rhodesia about 1,900 miles from Cape Town, is one of the world's most majestic spectacles. Here the Zambesi River, more than a mile wide, pours over a precipice 420 feet high.
Approximately eighty million gallons of water rush by every minute. Victoria is more than twice as wide and four times as high as Niagara Falls.