12 days · 11 nights
Big Five safari, the Garden Route and the Cape in one guided journey.
Choose your dates when you enquire
Ask about datesStart with two nights at Kapama, a private reserve on the edge of Kruger, and the canyon views of the Panorama Route. A flight to George brings you to Knysna, then the road leads through the Little Karoo and the Winelands to three nights in Cape Town.
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.
Kapama Private Game Reserve
Day 1 · Kapama Private Game Reserve
Your guide meets you at Johannesburg airport for the drive to Kapama, a private reserve of savannah and riverine bush west of Kruger National Park. After checking in there is an afternoon game drive with a ranger in an open vehicle, then dinner at the lodge.
Day 2 · Kapama Private Game Reserve
A knock at dawn starts a three-hour drive in an open 4x4, with your ranger explaining the bush and a coffee stop at a lookout. Back at the lodge there is breakfast, time by the pool and lunch before the afternoon drive.
Blyde River Canyon and Hazyview
Day 3 · Blyde River Canyon and Hazyview
After a last morning drive and breakfast, travel the Panorama Route into the Blyde River Canyon, past the Three Rondavels, the water-carved Bourke's Luck Potholes and the lookout at God's Window, weather permitting. The night is spent in Hazyview.
Pretoria and Johannesburg
Day 4 · Pretoria and Johannesburg
A long drive to Pretoria, the capital, for a city tour: the Union Buildings and the Voortrekker Monument, with jacaranda in bloom from September to November. Continue to Johannesburg for the night.
Knysna
Day 5 · Knysna
Fly from Johannesburg to George, where your guide meets you for the drive to Knysna, a seaside town on a sheltered lagoon known for its oysters. The rest of the day is free.
Day 6 · Knysna
Take the ferry across the lagoon to the private Featherbed reserve on the Western Head, ride up by 4x4 for the views, and walk a two kilometre trail through coastal forest and fynbos down to the sea. Lunch is a buffet under the milkwood trees, and the rest of the day is yours at the waterfront.
Oudtshoorn
Day 7 · Oudtshoorn
Follow the coast past Sedgefield and the long beach at Wilderness to George, then climb the Outeniqua Pass into the dry Little Karoo. In Oudtshoorn, the ostrich capital, you visit an ostrich farm before dinner.
Oudtshoorn and Montagu
Day 8 · Oudtshoorn and Montagu
Rise early for a sunrise meerkat encounter, weather permitting, then see the great halls of the Cango Caves in the foothills of the Swartberg. The afternoon road runs through Calitzdorp, Ladismith and Barrydale to Montagu, a small town of old buildings and sweet muscat wines.
Stellenbosch and Cape Town
Day 9 · Stellenbosch and Cape Town
At 2 pm a local guide leads a three and a half hour Cape food walk through old Stellenbosch, with rusks, biltong, a heritage lunch platter and Cape desserts along the way. Then continue to Cape Town for three nights.
Cape Peninsula
Day 10 · Cape Peninsula
A full-day tour down the Atlantic coast to Hout Bay and over Chapman's Peak to the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Point. On the way back, see the penguin colony at Boulders Beach from its boardwalks, then pass through Simon's Town and the False Bay beaches.
Cape Town
Day 11 · Cape Town
A half-day tour of the Castle of Good Hope, the Company's Garden and the historic centre, then the cable car up Table Mountain for the walk around the plateau, weather permitting.
Day 12 · Cape Town
After breakfast you are transferred to Cape Town airport for your flight home.
The hotels for each stop. Your advisor confirms them, or something just as good, for your dates.
Kapama Private Game Reserve · 2 nights
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Hazyview · 1 night
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Johannesburg · 1 night
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Knysna · 2 nights
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Oudtshoorn · 1 night
A guest farm. Or similar
Montagu · 1 night
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Cape Town · 3 nights
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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.
Start with two nights at Kapama, a private reserve on the edge of Kruger, and the canyon views of the Panorama Route. A flight to George brings you to Knysna, then the road leads through the Little Karoo and the Winelands to three nights in Cape Town.
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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