voyage to south africa | malaga to cape town

S M A L L - S H I P C R U I S I N G A T I T S B E S T

AN EXTRAORDINARY 31-DAY JOURNEYFROM MALAGA TO CAPE TOWN

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NOVEMBER 19, 2015

VOYAGE TO

SOUTH AFRICA

A voyage to DATE PORT ARRIVE DEPART

NOV 19 Fly toMALAGA SpainEmbark Aegean Odyssey 10.00pm

NOV 20 TANGIER Morocco 7.00am 6.00pm

NOV 21 CASABLANCA/RABAT/ 8.00amMARRAKESH MoroccoMorning sightseeing in Casablanca andRabat. Afternoon drive to Marrakesh overnight hotel

NOV 22 MARRAKESH/AGADIR MoroccoMorning sightseeing. Afternoon drive to Agadir to rejoin ship 8.00pm

NOV 23 At Sea

NOV 24 LAS PALMAS Canary Islands 8.00am 6.00pm

NOV 25/26 At Sea

NOV 27 PRAIA Santiago Island 4.00pm overnight

NOV 28 PRAIA Santiago Island 2.00pm

NOV 29-DEC 4 At Sea

DEC 5 SAO TOME 2.00pm 10.00pm

DEC 6 BOM BOM Príncipe 8.00am 9.00pm

DEC 7/8 At Sea – Crossing the Equator Celebrations

DEC 9 LUANDA Angola 7.00am 1.00pm

DEC 10/11 At Sea

DEC 12 WALVIS BAY Namibia noon overnight

DEC 13 WALVIS BAY Namibia 2.00pm

DEC 14 LUDERITZ Namibia 10.00am 7.00pm

DEC 15 At Sea

DEC 16 CAPE TOWN South Africa 8.00am overnight

DEC 17 CAPE TOWN South Africa overnight

DEC 18 CAPE TOWN South Africa overnight

DEC 19 CAPE TOWN South AfricaDisembark and transfer to airport for flight home

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your itinerary

31-days departing november 19,2015

Sail to the southern tip of Africa Cape Town

the cape of good hope

Enjoy the finest traditions of cruising aboard Aegean Odysseyon a month-long journey to the tip of South Africa.

This remarkable voyage will take you from Europe to the souks of Morocco to tropical islands, the famous wild coast of Namibia and

the summer sunshine of historic Cape Town.

Cruise features include:• Overnight land tour to Marrakesh in Morocco

• 10 guided sightseeing excursions • Visits to the Canaries and Cape Verde Islands

• Cross the Equator• Three nights to enjoy and explore Cape Town

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SPAINMalaga

Agadir MOROCCO

TangierCasablanca

Las Palmas

Atlantic Ocean

canaryislands

Marrakesh

PraiaCape Verde

Islands

Sao Tome & Principe

Bom BomSao Tome

Cape Town

SouthAfrica

LuandaAngola

Walvis BayLuderitz Namibia

Equator

Day 1 Malaga SpainFly to Malaga Airport and transfer toAegean Odyssey.

Day 2 TangierMoroccoSituated only a short distance across theStrait of Gibraltar from the shores of Europe, Tangier is a gateway to a vastly different culture. Travelling along the promenade, you will arrive at Cape SpartelLighthouse - more than a century old itshines a warning beacon to ships sailingbetween the Atlantic and Mediterranean.You’ll also visit the Medina (old town),whose walls mark the line of the Romandefences, the Grand Mosque and the PetitSocco, which covers the area of the oldForum. Your guide will then walk youthrough the Kasbah to Mendoubia Park .

Day 3 Casablanca-Rabat-MarrakeshArrive Casablanca and see the Hassan IImosque as you depart by road for Rabat.With its stunning colonial architecture,Rabat is a true gem of a city. Your visit includes the old medina and the picturesque Kasbah of the Oudayas whichyou enter via the enormous and elaboratelydecorated 12th-century Almohad Gate.

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Moroccan experience

the mountainous interior and desert south.Head inland from Las Palmas to discoverGran Canaria's spectacular but little visitedinterior including the Bandama Crater andthe historic city of Arucas.

Days 7/8 At seaEnjoy some sunshine or visit the Spa as the ship makes its way to the Cape VerdeIslands.

Days 9/10 Praia Santiago, Cape Verde IslandsPraia is Cape Verde's capital and busiestcity. Settlements in Praia started around1615 and it became capital of the countryin 1770. Landmarks in the colonial citycentre include Albuquerque Square, the oldcity hall built in the 1920s, the PresidentialPalace and the Monumento de DiogoGomes, named after the Portuguese navigator who discovered Santiago in 1460. Your tour also includes Cidade Velha (old city), home to some wonderful colonial era monuments.

Days 11-16 At seaSix days at sea with plenty of time to relaxand enjoy the ship’s facilities and on-boardlectures as you sail the Atlantic Oceansouth to Sao Tome.

Perhaps Rabat’s most famous landmark isthe well-preserved and impressive HassanTower. There is also time to see the Mohamed V Mausoleum, the burial placeof the present King of Morocco’s father,and view the Royal Palace. Afternoon drive to Marrakesh.

Day 4 Marrakesh-AgadirThis morning’s tour takes in the old medina with its labyrinthine alleyways,mosques, hammams, traditional publicbakeries, fondouks (old lodging housesused by the caravans) and fountains carvedin wood. Then, after walking through amaze of shaded, narrow streets you emergeinto the famous Djemma el-Fna Square,

where throughout the ages local peopleand African caravans have gathered for entertainment, celebrations, gossip andbusiness and you can admire the famousKoutoubia Minaret, one of the masterpieceworks of Islamic architecture. After lunch,depart by road for Agadir to rejoin Aegean Odyssey.

Day 5 At seaTime now to relax as the ship makes it way to Las Palmas in the Canary Islands.

Day 6 Las Palmas Gran CanariaGran Canaria is the third-largest island inthe Canaries’ archipelago and is known for its dramatic variations of landscape,ranging from the green and leafy north to

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Colourful Marrakesh Las Palmas spectacular landscapes

Day 17 Sao Tome & Principe AfricaAlong with Principe, Sao Tome is Africa’ssecond-smallest country. These two tiny volcanic bumps anchored off the Gabonese coast will easily win your heartwith their Portuguese-Creole flavour and relaxed vibes. You start by heading to theNational Museum, housed in the former St Sebastian Fortress. Next, there’s a visit to the village of Pantufo to watch “DançoCongo”, a mixture of dance and theatrethat is a cultural feature of Sao Tome. Then to the Cathedral, another of SaoTome’s landmarks, followed by a walkthrough the city’s streets where you can admire the beautiful architecture, much of it an inheritance from the Portuguesecolonial period.

Day 18 Bom Bom Island PrincipeSpend the day relaxing and enjoy tropicalbeach life at the exotically named resort ofBom Bom on the island of Principe. BomBom Islet is linked to the mainland ofPrincipe by a 230-metre raised woodenwalkway and with its vanilla plantations,pristine white sand beaches, old colonial

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Tropical Sao Tome & Principe

estates, lush rainforest and exotic bird life.Bom Bom is a true gem.

Days 19/20 At sea Cross the EquatorEnjoy the traditional maritime celebrationsas Aegean Odyssey crosses the Equator.

Day 21 Luanda AngolaSince the Angolan Civil War ended in2002, Luanda has undergone a renaissanceof epic proportions. You will witness thistransformation as you drive along MarginalBay to the Igreje de Senhora de Nazare with its beautiful altar made of Italian rose marble. Then to the old Iron Palace “Palacio de Ferro” designed by the famous

architect Gustav Eiffel - of Tower fame, theGothic-style church of Los Remedios, theAngolan National Museum of Anthropologyand the Fortaleza de Sao Miguel. After visiting the mausoleum dedicated to Augostinho Neto, the first president of Angola, you’ll drive through “Cidade Alta”,or uptown, with its pink colonial buildings.

Days 22/23 At sea Enjoy the on-board facilities as the shipmakes its way to Namibia.

Days 24/25Walvis Bay NamibiaWalvis Bay is situated on a wide lagoon andis home to numerous sea birds including

pelicans and flamingos. Your afternoon destination is the Namib Naukluft National Park – the largest in Africa – thatencompasses part of the Namib Desert and the Naukluft mountain range. The included tour takes you to Swakopmund,the country's biggest coastal town and amecca for Namibians on holiday. The city'sGerman origins are quite pronounced inbeautiful old German Colonial buildings.Enjoy an orientation tour of the town, with its many beautiful historical buildings dating back to the turn of the century andbuilt in the Art Nouveau style. Overnight in Walvis Bay.

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See the wildlife at Walvis BayNamibian cultures

Day 26 LuderitzArrive in Luderitz and depart for Kolmanskop, Namibia's most well-knownghost town, situated in the Spergebiet, (forbidden territory). In 1908, the railwayworker Zacharias Lewala found a sparklingstone amongst the sand while he was working in a railway maintenance teamnear Kolmanskop. This sparked a “Diamond Rush” which caused fortunehunters to converge on the town in droves.Large, elegant houses were built and itsoon resembled a German town. The dropin diamond sales after World War I resulted in the decline of Kolmanskop. Today theghost town's crumbling ruins bear little resemblance to its former glory.

Day 27 At seaA final chance to relax as you head for your final port of call, Cape Town in South Africa.

Days 28-30 Cape Town South AfricaThree days in Cape Town allows for plentyof time to explore this iconic city and itssurroundings. No visit to Cape Town is complete without a trip up Table Mountain, the city’s most celebrated landmark, and a ride in the famous cable

car. Table Mountain gets her name from the flat-topped central massif of the mountain, which viewed from the city, is surrounded by Devil’s Peak on the left,Lion’s Head on the right and Signal Hill in the foreground. On your way back to the ship there is a short orientation tour of the city of Cape Town. During yourthree-day stay, you will also have time tovisit Robben Island, discover the beautifulscenery of the Cape Peninsula, or enjoy the Cape Winelands.

Day 31 Cape Town to LondonTransfer to the airport for the overnightflight back to the UK.

Brian Williams is the Emeritus Professor of Geology at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland and holds professorial positions in the

Universities of Manchester, Bristol, Cork andDublin. He is a Fellow of the Geological Societyof London and a Member of the Energy Institute,and has published over 100 papers and severalbooks.

His studies have taken him around the globe andBrian will use this experience, and his enthusiasmfor geology, to enhance your understanding of themany and varied natural wonders encounteredalong the way from Malaga to Cape Town.

Lecture topicsMOROCCAN LANDSCAPES: A COLLAGE OFCOLOURS AND SCENIC WONDERS – An overviewof the diverse landscapes of Morocco. From Tangiers,with its limestone plateaus south to Marrakesh and onwards through the High Atlas to Agadir and theOurika Valley.

THE NAMIB: THE OLDEST DESERT IN THEWORLD – The Namib is a gigantic coastal desert covering an area of over 30, 000 sq km. Namib means"vast place" and this desert complex covers Namibia, east to the Great Escarpment and stretches from Angolato the South African border, where the diamond-bearingsands are to be found. It has been an active site of winddeposition for over 60 million years, making it the oldestdesert on the planet.

Table Mountain greets our arrival in Cape Town

Tony Sims is a Visiting Fellow at and recent escapee from Kingston University in London, where he had an academic career at the business

school stretching back over 25 years. A former IT Consultant with science degrees from both Imperial and Kings College, London, he spentmany years at Kingston as an MBA Course Director, found time to do research, but particularly enjoyed mentoring student projectswith business clients including the BBC, Lloydsand London Irish. When not working, Tony likes to mess around with boats. He has sailed in many parts of the world, though the west coastof Scotland remains his favourite cruising area.

Lecture topicsOIL, CELL PHONES & THE CHINESE YUAN –The African Economic Boom, who are the winners and losers, and what does the future hold?

BLETCHLEY PARK & WW2 – The true story behind“The Imitation Game”, the developmental history of howBletchley became a major asset to the WW2 war effort.

DRAKE, HAWKINS & THE TRIANGULARTRADE – Trading on the North Atlantic Gyre, was thisBritains first big economic push?

Patricia Stefanowicz FreelanceWine Consultant and ConstructionProject Manager. After graduating inarchitecture and engineering with

first-class Honours from Rice University in theStates and a career in design and construction,Canadian-born Patricia became passionate aboutwine when asked to convert an old hop kiln intoa winery. With post-graduate degrees in wineproduction, Patricia is one of only 300 Masters of Wine and was top-scholar at Wine and SpiritEducation Trust Diploma. She is an award-winning wine educator and lecturer, internationalcompetition judge, journalist and technical consultant on all things vinous.

Lecture topicsBRITISH DRINKING HABITS IN THE 19TH CENTURY – This lecture and tutored tasting will explore what and how the British consumed alcoholic(and non-alcoholic) beverages in the Victorian era.Punch, sherry, German riesling, claret, port and evenbeer or tea and coffee.

WINES OF THE WORLD – Five sessions exploring theworld of wine whilst we are at sea. Lectures and tastingsfrom a global perspective will focus on grape varietiesand many countries.

WINES OF SOUTH AFRICA – This lecture and tasting of the unique wines of South Africa and theirvineyards will focus on some of the styles in preparationfor our final destination.

EXPERT GUEST SPEAKERS Meet our guest speakers who will be accompanying you on this voyage. Here is a taste of what to expect...

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Please note these lecturers and their chosen topics are subject to change.

Andrew Schofield is an ecologist and was born in Farnborough in1956. He has lived in Nigeria, Kenyaand Tanzania and now lives in Cape

Town, South Africa. Conservation has been thetheme of his life with influences by many people,starting with his God father who was the NationalParks field officer for Nigeria and who took him asa young boy to see the herds of Elephants in thebush to the turtles nesting on the beaches. Andrewhas created wildlife reserves in areas that have nothad game on them for hundreds of years. He hascollected and translocated species like Elephant,Rhino, Cheetah and Lion and successfully habituated them to the new reserves and was thefirst person in the world to release White Lionsback into the wild.

Lecture topicsDR DAVID LIVINGSTONE – This talk discusses the life of this larger than life missionary, explorer, man of medicine and his firm belief that Christianity and commerce would free Africa of slavery. Livingstone’s lifeand how he went from hero to villain and back to heroagain in his remarkable life.

WHITE LION – This talk is about how the genes of theWhite Lion were returned to the wild. White Lions havebeen removed from the wild since the 1920s because itwas thought that they could not survive. We discuss howthe team did the re-introduction, in such a way that ithas now given us the opportunity of seeing the WhiteLion in the wild again.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

THE BURNING ABSENCE OF LIGHT ISBN: 9780141022826

In this extraordinary non-fiction novel, based on a true story, Tahar BenJelloun traces the experiences of Salim who, in 1971, took part in a failedcoup attempt to oust King Hassan II of Morocco. With sixty others Salimwas incarcerated in a secret prison complex in the Moroccan desert: he wasto remain there for nearly twenty years. In starkly eloquent, beautiful prose,Ben Jelloun relates the prisoners' experiences as they struggle to survive.

Eamonn Gearon

THE SAHARA: A CULTURAL HISTORY ISBN: 9781904955825

The largest desert in the world, the Sahara ranges from the River Nile running through Egypt and Sudan in the east, to the Atlantic coast fromMorocco to Mauritania in the west; stretching from the Atlas Mountains andthe shores of the Mediterranean in the north, to the fluid Sahelian fringethat delineates the desert in the south. Invaders and traders have comeand gone for millennia, but the Sahara is also the place that some peoplecall home.

Martin Meredith

DIAMONDS GOLD AND WAR, THE MAKING OF SOUTH AFRICA ISBN: 9781416526377

The prize was great - not just land, but the riches it held, in the form of diamonds and gold. What became a country called South Africa was, until1910, a vast and untamed land where great fortunes could be made (and

HOLIDAY READING IDEASThere’s nothing like a good book to accompany you on your travels.Our associates at Blackwell’s of Oxford have put together a selection of books that we feel would provide the perfect accompaniment for this magnificent voyage.

lost); where great battles were fought (and lost); and where great menhad their reputations forged, or dashed, or sometimes both.

Iain Finlayson

TANGIER: CITY OF THE DREAM ISBN: 9781780769264

No city in the world has quite the exotic allure of Tangier. From the 17thcentury, it has been a place on the edge, beyond the normal disciplines ofgovernment, a city of refuge and excitements where sex is cheap, drugsare plentiful and where the outcasts of the world can breathe easily.

Alan Paton

CRY, THE BELOVED COUNTRY ISBN: 9780099766810

Tells the story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son Absalom,set against the background of a land and a people riven by racial injustice. This work talks about love and hope, courage and endurance, born of the dignity of man.

Ayesha Harruna Attah

SATURDAY’S SHADOWS ISBN: 9789462380431

The protagonists of Saturday’s Shadows experience the fine line between sanity and madness as they try to find and hold onto love in the volatile world of 1990’s West Africa.

DOUBLE ACCOMMODATIONS

£5,750 £2,875

6,150 3,075

6,550 3,275

6,995 3,498

7,495 3,748

7,950 3,975

8,450 4,225

8,995 4,498

9,450 4,725

10,150 5,075

10,695 5,348

11,795 5,898

12,995 6,498

6,450 4,838

7,895 5,921

8,450 6,338

8,995 6,746

9,550 7,163

10,695 8,021

12,250 9,188

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• 31-DAY CRUISE aboard Aegean Odyssey

• 10 INCLUDED EXCURSIONS as described with specialist-guide

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• OVERNIGHT HOTEL STAY IN MARRAKESH

• EXPERT guest speaker programme on board

• ALL MEALS on board Aegean Odyssey

• COMPLIMENTARY WINE (or beer/soft drinks) with dinner on board

• GRATUITIES for on-board restaurant staff and your cabin steward

• TRANSFERS & BAGGAGE handling on arrival and departure overseas

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