Day 1 · Cape Town
Arrive in Cape Town
A driver meets you in the arrivals hall and takes you to your hotel. The rest of the day is free: the city centre, the cable car up Table Mountain or the V&A Waterfront are all close by.
5 days · 4 nights
Cape Dutch gables, painted Bo-Kaap streets and old wine estates, with your own guide.
Choose your dates when you enquire
Ask about datesFour nights in one Cape Town hotel, with three days out in the company of a private driver-guide. You walk the city centre and the Bo-Kaap, travel through Langa and the Southern Suburbs to Groot Constantia, and spend a day among the Cape Dutch homesteads of Stellenbosch and Franschhoek.
The same person from your first question to the flight home, with a wedding or vow renewal planned alongside if you like.
How the days unfold. Your advisor tailors the pace, the hotels and the extras to you.
Cape Town
Day 1 · Cape Town
A driver meets you in the arrivals hall and takes you to your hotel. The rest of the day is free: the city centre, the cable car up Table Mountain or the V&A Waterfront are all close by.
Day 2 · Cape Town
A walk among the neoclassical and Art Deco buildings of the City Bowl leads to the Castle of Good Hope, the city's first building, and the Edwardian City Hall on the Grand Parade, from whose balcony Nelson Mandela gave his first speech on freedom. Continue through the Company's Garden past Parliament to the bright houses of the Bo-Kaap, with a light lunch of samosas and a chance to buy spices.
Day 3 · Cape Town
Visit Langa, one of the oldest townships around Cape Town, then cross to the Southern Suburbs for the UCT campus, Rhodes Memorial and Groote Schuur, both by the architect Herbert Baker. The day ends at Groot Constantia, the oldest wine estate in South Africa, with a formal tasting.
Stellenbosch and Franschhoek
Day 4 · Stellenbosch and Franschhoek
Walk Dorpstraat in Stellenbosch, then visit the Cape Dutch buildings of Rustenburg, some dating to about 1700, and the gabled Boschendal manor house of 1812, each with a wine tasting. After lunch, finish in Franschhoek at the Huguenot Memorial before returning to Cape Town.
Cape Town
Day 5 · Cape Town
Breakfast and a little free time before your guide collects you for the airport.
The hotels for each stop. Your advisor confirms them, or something just as good, for your dates.
Cape Town · 4 nights
Or similar
Tell us when you would like to travel. Your advisor confirms dates and hotels, tailors the trip to the two of you, and stays with you until you are home.
South Africa
12 days · 11 nights
Cape Town → Hermanus → Oudtshoorn → Knysna → Storms River → Cape St Francis → Port Elizabeth
Begin with four nights in Cape Town for the city, the Cape Peninsula and the Winelands. A guide then drives you east by way of Hermanus, Cape Agulhas, the Little Karoo, Knysna and the Tsitsikamma forest, with two quiet nights at Cape St Francis before you finish in Port Elizabeth.
South Africa
11 days · 10 nights
Cape Town → Victoria Falls → Johannesburg → Marakele National Park → Johannesburg
You begin in Cape Town with an early cable car up Table Mountain, dinner beside the shark tank at the Two Oceans Aquarium and the penguins of the Cape Peninsula. Victoria Falls brings a sunset Zambezi cruise, a private walk at the falls and an elephant encounter. You finish with four nights in Marakele National Park, joining vets on a rhino conservation experience.
South Africa
5 days · 4 nights
Cape Town
Stay in one Cape Town hotel for all four nights and head out each day with your own driver guide. One day is a food walk through historic Stellenbosch, the next a city day that ends cooking lunch with a Cape Malay family in the Bo-Kaap, and the third a coastal run of small producers ending with the penguins at Boulders Beach.
Four nights in one Cape Town hotel, with three days out in the company of a private driver-guide. You walk the city centre and the Bo-Kaap, travel through Langa and the Southern Suburbs to Groot Constantia, and spend a day among the Cape Dutch homesteads of Stellenbosch and Franschhoek.
Every trip can be shaped around you before you book.
Arrive early or stay on at the end, in the same hotel or somewhere new.
Your travel expert books flights that fit the first and last day.
Choose a better room or a hotel with a view for the nights that count.
A honeymoon, an anniversary or a birthday, planned into the trip.
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