The Garden Route

Overview

Those who travel to South Africa are truly spoilt for choice. A holiday here can cover the scenic, patchwork vineyards of the Cape, the crashing surf of the coast, an exciting Big Five safari, and the historic Battlefields of KwaZulu Natal.

Itinerary

• Day
  1

  Arrival – Port Elizabeth

  Arrival at Port Elizabeth International Airport, meeting with our representative (Out of the Arrival Hall exit Door) and transfer you to your hotel. The remainder of the day is at leisure to explore this pretty Port City by the sea, night in the hotel at Port Elizabeth

• Day
  2

  Port Elizabeth / Addo

  Breakfast and leaving to discover Route 67 on a walking tour, this routes consists of a series of public art works celebrating the 67 years of public service of the freedom icon, Nelson Mandela, fondly known as Tata Madiba. In the early afternoon, transfer to Addo National Park. A benchmark conservation success, the park offers a unique wildlife habitat, famous for the Addo elephants and the remaining population of the flightless dung beetle. We spend the afternoon on a game drive in our tour vehicle, in search of elephant, black rhino, lion, buffalo and leopard. Additional game drives conducted in open game-viewer vehicles are available at an extra expense. An evening spent at the floodlit waterhole allows us to watch the nocturnal animals and listen to their calls, night in the Lodge at Addo Elephant Park

• Day
  3

  Addo National Park / Tsitsikamma National Park

  After breakfast on day 3 our journey takes us to a region of startling beauty along South Africa’s southern coastline, known as the Garden Route. We spend two nights in the Storms River Village, at the heart of the Tsitsikamma Forest. We take a leisurely hike along one of the short trails, which allow you to explore the coastal bush and rocky shoreline. There is also an option to plunge off the world’s highest bungee jump at the Bloukrans River, night in the Lodge at Tsitsikamma National Park

• Day
  4

  Tsitsikamma National Park

  Breakfast, this Day still in Tsitsikamma National Park, night in the Lodge at Tsitsikamma National Park

• Day
  5

  Tsitsikamma / Knysna / Oudtshoorn

  Breakfast and interactive educational oyster tasting experience , after visiting ‘The Heads’ in Knysna, a town nestled on a tranquil lagoon, we will enjoy an interactive and educational oyster tasting experience. We continue our journey, travelling over the Outeniqua Mountains into the Little Karoo arriving in the town of Oudtshoorn. We take a trip to the famous Cango Caves, with their impressive ancient stalagmites and stalactites before, nighting in the ostrich capital of the world, night in Oudtshoorn

• Day
  6

  Oudtshoorn / Stellenbosch / Cape Town

  Breakfast, En-route to Cape Town, we visit the pretty university town of Stellenbosch, for wine tasting and a cellar tour. Once in Cape Town the afternoon is at leisure, enjoy sundowners at one of the fabulous beaches or indulge in some last minute shopping at the V&A Waterfront. The next day we get to explore the many attractions the 'Mother City' has to offer on a Cape Point tour, night in the hotel at Cape Town

• Day
  7

  Cape Point

  Breakfast at the hotel and a full day Cape Point tour. Travel along the Atlantic Seaboard to Hout Bay, a quaint village and fishing harbour with magnificent mountain views and beach. Here you have the option to take a boat trip to Seal Island (seasonal and not included in the cost). Carry on over Chapman’s Peak, one of the world’s most breathtaking coastal drives, to beautiful Cape Point and the Good Hope Nature Reserve. In the afternoon travel on to Simon’s Town, a village with charming Victorian architecture, a naval base and a large penguin colony at the beautiful Boulders Beach (entrance to Boulders Beach is optional, pay locally), night in the hotel in Cape Town

• Day
  8

  Cape Town – End of the Trip

  Breakfast at the hotel and transfer to Cape Town International Airport for your departure flight