9 days · 8 nights
Your own car, short drives between camps and two nights at each, so the days are for game viewing.
Choose your dates when you enquire
Ask about datesCollect a car at Kruger Mpumalanga airport and work your way north through the park, two nights at a time. You start in the granite hills of the south, move to Skukuza on the Sabie River and the open plains around Satara, and finish among the mopane woodland of Letaba before dropping the car at Hoedspruit.
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.
Berg-en-Dal
Day 1 · Berg-en-Dal
At Kruger Mpumalanga International Airport you collect your rental car and drive to your first camp in the south of the park. The rest of the day is free. Kruger was founded in 1898 and covers close to two million hectares, home to the Big Five along with giraffe, zebra and a long list of birds.
Day 2 · Berg-en-Dal
A full day to explore around Berg-en-Dal, in the foothills of the Malelane Mountains near the Crocodile River. The rocky bushveld here is good country for white rhino, elephant, buffalo, leopard, kudu and impala, and the thick vegetation around camp brings robins and turacos close.
Skukuza
Day 3 · Skukuza
Drive slowly north to Skukuza, the largest and oldest camp in the park, stopping at waterholes and lookouts along the way where elephant, giraffe and antelope are often seen. The camp sits on the banks of the Sabie River.
Day 4 · Skukuza
A free day around Skukuza, where game is dense and lion, leopard and big elephant herds are all likely. Drive the river roads, stop at a picnic site, follow short loops off the main road or stay in camp and watch the riverbank.
Satara
Day 5 · Satara
Head north through open savannah and acacia plains that draw zebra, wildebeest and buffalo in large numbers. Satara is known as big cat country, with good chances of lion, cheetah and leopard nearby.
Day 6 · Satara
A full day on the grasslands around Satara, among the best ground in the park for lions. The S100 and H7 roads are the ones to know, and the waterholes gather big herds. Evenings in camp come with francolins calling and, often, lions roaring in the distance.
Letaba
Day 7 · Letaba
Continue north into mopane woodland and wide river valleys, where buffalo, waterbuck and elephant are seen often. Letaba is a quiet camp with shaded grounds above the river, and your base for the last two nights.
Day 8 · Letaba
A free day for unhurried drives around camp and the nearby waterholes, or simply time on the riverfront with binoculars. The Letaba region is especially good for elephants, birds and photography.
Hoedspruit
Day 9 · Hoedspruit
After breakfast, drive out of the park to Hoedspruit airport, return the car and check in for your onward flight.
The hotels for each stop. Your advisor confirms them, or something just as good, for your dates.
Southern Kruger · 2 nights
In the foothills near the Crocodile River. Or similar
Central Kruger · 2 nights
On the Sabie River. Or similar
Central Kruger · 2 nights
Or similar
Northern central Kruger · 2 nights
Above the Letaba River. 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.
Collect a car at Kruger Mpumalanga airport and work your way north through the park, two nights at a time. You start in the granite hills of the south, move to Skukuza on the Sabie River and the open plains around Satara, and finish among the mopane woodland of Letaba before dropping the car at Hoedspruit.
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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