4 Day Old Missionaries Tour

Code: H403 Duration: 4 Days Departs from: East London - (Port Elizabeth on request) Featuring: 1st London Missionary Society mission station Pirie Mission Lovedale, Healdtown Mgwali Mission

Join us on this fascinating missionary tour to sites of early mission stations where people often of humble background became missionary pioneers and in their own small way helped mold our countries history.

Day1:
The missionary tour departs from Port Elizabeth and head for Bethelsdorp where the first London Missionary Society mission station in Africa was established for the Khoikhoi people some 200 years ago. We then head east and visit the first Wesleyan Mission stations established among the Xhosa, including Mount Coke where the first Xhosa Bible was printed.
Overnight: King William's Town (itself having began as a mission station).

Day2:
We visit the missionary museum, the only one of its kind in South Africa, before leaving for the Pirie Mission. This is close to the site of Van der Kemp's first work among the Xhosa in 1799. From here we visit Burnshill, Knapp's Hope, Chumie and other significant mission stations in their time.
Overnight: Hogsback.

Day3:
Today we travel to Lovedale, Healdtown, and Philipton; visit the grave of Ntsikana, a remarkable Xhosa prophet and the Mgwali Mission, established by the Rev. Tiyo Soga, the first Xhosa missionary.
Overnight: Matola Private Game Reserve.

Day4:
Enjoy an early morning game drive or walk in the reserve before departing for East London where our tour ends.