The wonder of travelling to South Africa is that you have dinner, fall asleep and when you wake up you are there. Over 80% of intercontinental flights are overnight.
Now there is a fresh activity for travellers returning home on one of the many late-night flights that only depart at 21h00 or later.
To beat the blues of hanging around the airport, Ebiking Africa (www.e-biking.co.za) is offering travellers the option of a guided tour where they are shown how to ride an e-Bike and then guided through a spectacular setting.
Said Beth van der Walt, Sales Manager: “The exhilarating two- to three-hour experience can be customised according to their flight time so that they arrive at the airport at least three hours before their flight.”
There are eight wide-body flights that leave Johannesburg at 22h00 or later. Here the option for passengers is to go e-Biking in one of the world’s oldest proclaimed reserves. Groenkloof Nature Reserve is three minutes off the Johannesburg-Pretoria highway and 30 minutes from OR Tambo International Airport.
In Cape Town they can choose to e-Bike with a professional guide on top of Table Mountain National Park in the Silvermine Nature Reserve or in the winelands with a final wine tasting at Boschendal Wine Estate.
There were four flights departing Cape Town around 21h00 and later but with the traffic, the experience needed to start not later 14h30, said Van der Walt.
The small guided tour is for a minimum of two and a maximum of six people.
Late flights out of Johannesburg include United, Delta, KLM, El Al, British Airways, Emirates, Qantas and Ethiopian. Late out of Cape Town are Delta, KLM, BA and United.
The cost of the experience includes the e-Bikes, guide, helmets and wet-weather gear and park entrance fees. In Johannesburg it is R1 650 (€85) per person, Table Mountain Panorama route is R2 200 (€113) and Boschendal R1 975 (€102).
Ebiking Africa operates daily scheduled tours in the mornings in Johannesburg and Cape Town. Afternoon tours are customised by arrangement.
Van der Walt can be contacted at sales@e-biking.co.za. The product is commissionable to the trade.
Watch this video of what people are doing before they board their late night flight back home here:
