Day 01: Cape Town – Optional Half day City Tour
Welcome to Cape Town. After clearing customs, meet our representative in the waiting area and transfer to your hotel. In the afternoon, go for an optional half day city tour on a private / SIC basis. This tour gives you the opportunity to discover the spirit of the Mother City, experience her vibrant cultures and history and enjoy botanical scenery. The tour leaves at 8 am in the morning and 2 pm in the afternoon. It is for 4 hours.
Highlights of the tour include: Table Mountain – weather permitting, scenic coastal drive through Clifton & Sea Point, Green Market Square, District Six, and Walk through the Company Gardens, Scenic City tour passing the Houses of Parliament, the City Hall, the Castle and Slave lodge. Visit to Table Mountain (weather permitting)
Overnight at your hotel in Cape Town.
Day 02: Full day Cape Peninsula / Cape Point Tour
After breakfast today at 9 am, depart for a full day Cape Peninsula / Cape Point tour. Embark on Africa’s premier tour route to the romantic meeting place of the Indian & Atlantic Oceans. Sir Francis Drake the explorer called it “the fairest Cape that we saw in the circumference of the Globe” This tour offers a full and exciting day out. The tour departs at 9 am and you come back generally by 5 pm.
This tour offers a full and exciting day out. Includes: Hout Bay, 30-minute cruise to the seal colony in a glass bottom boat (weather permitting), Cape Point nature reserve, Cape Point, Cape of Good Hope, stop for lunch at Fish Hoek Galley (included, visit penguin colony in Simonstown and Kirstenbosch botanical gardens.
In the evening return to your hotel. Overnight at hotel in Cape Town.
Day 03: Optional Vineyards tour / Hermanus (Whale Watching) Tour / Shark Cage Diving Tour
You can relax today or choose one of the three activities from below.
Depart early morning today at 5 am for a Shark Cage Diving Tour. Take a chance to meet one of the most magnificent creatures of the sea today and a unique opportunity where the Shark is free and you are in a cage.
Every trip is preceded by a brief introductory talk about the route and what to look out for. Passengers are fitted with comfortable inflatable life-jackets. Safety is of the utmost importance. You are then taken to the anchoring spot. This activity is conducted in the winter (April – October) at Dyer Island and in the summer months November – March) at Joubertsdam reef by Franskraal beach. The anchor is lowered, the cage goes into the water, a scent trial is made, and you settle down. Final preparations for the diving are made, and the rest of the day is spent watching, diving and enjoying.
Lunch is served locally. In the evening come back to Cape Town. Overnight at your hotel in Cape Town.
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After breakfast at 9 am, depart for your full day Vineyards tour. Get swept away by the overwhelming beauty of rolling vineyards and perfect blue sky. Start off with a visit to Paarl and the spectacular Paarl Valley. Here we enjoy a wine tasting and cellar tour at one of the local estates. The tour continues north-west to the beautiful village of Franschhoek and then on to Stellenbosch, the second oldest town in South Africa and the historic heart of the country’s wine region.
Enjoy lunch at a local restaurant in the Winelands. Return to Cape Town in late afternoon. Dinner at Indian restaurant. Overnight at your hotel in Cape Town.
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After breakfast at 8 am, depart for a full day Whale Watching tour. You will be met by your driver/guide for a Touring in the Hermanus area. Lunch is in a local restaurant. Return back to Cape Town in the evening taking the Elgin & Sir Lowry’s Pass road.
This is said to be the best land based whale watching in the world. With a small bit of luck you may be entertained by these amazing animals. On your way to Hermanus you shall also visit the Harold Porter Botanical Gardens. Harold Porter is in the fynbos region (fynbos is Afrikaans for fine bush) and comprises 10 hectares of cultivated fynbos garden and 190 hectares of natural fynbos shrubland vegetation. Lunch will be picnic lunch or in a local hotel and when you come back in the evening at your hotel.
Overnight at your hotel in Cape Town.
Day 04: Knysna, Sunset lagoon Cruise
After an early breakfast today, depart to Knysna on the Garden Route. It is a seven hours scenic drive. Lunch is en-route on own. Reach Knysna and relax at your hotel after check in.
In the evening at 16:00 hrs. (winter) or 17:15 hrs. (summer), enjoy a beautiful Sunset cruise on the marvellous Knysna Lagoon. A visit to Knysna would be incomplete without a trip to the heads – a striking geological feature made up of a pair of huge, brightly coloured cliffs lying at the mouth of the lagoon, flanking a channel of potentially treacherous water that flows into Knysna’ s lagoon. You can cruise on the 3 leg river cat boat for this or on the John Ben.
Overnight at your hotel in Knysna.
Day 05: Kynsna – Oudtshoorn, Full day excursion at Oudtshoorn
After breakfast today, depart to Oudtshoorn which is just 91 miles away from Knysna. It’s a scenic drive. You have a full day of activities today at Oudtshoorn. Oudtshoorn is an important point on the Garden Route.
Today you will indulge in the following activities:-
Ostrich Farm – During your visit experience the world’s largest bird which lays the largest egg, has the most beautiful feathers and eyes that make you want to fall in love and hug them. You can enjoy riding the birds at your own risk, stand on their eggs, touch the birds and cuddle the chicks. Professional multilingual guides take you on a conducted tour where you will learn about the birds, experience laughter & beauty situated in a valley surrounded by thousands of ostriches and majestic mountains. Enjoy lunch at this ostrich farm
Cango Caves – The Klein Karoo’s oldest and most popular attraction … one of the world’s natural wonders.
Cango Wildlife Ranch – here you will have the opportunity to view some of the animal species which inhabited the Karoo region in the early days.
Late in the evening, return back to your hotel in Knysna. Overnight at your hotel in Knysna.
Day 06: Travel to Port Elizabeth via Plettenburg bay
After an early breakfast at 9 am, depart to Port Elizabeth which is a 3 hour drive, further on the garden route. Visit Plettenberg bay on the way and do not forget to visit the Monkey land Primate Sanctuary. The entrance to Monkey land is included in your package cost.
Plettenberg Bay is the jewel of The Garden Route and is tranquil and charming, hospitable and rather special. Originally christened “Bahia Formosa” (beautiful bay) by early Portuguese explorers, Plettenberg Bay offers the visitor miles of sweeping, un spoilt golden beaches, a dramatic rocky peninsula, intriguing lagoons and estuaries, towering indigenous forests and unpolluted rivers and sea.
Opened in 1998, Monkey land primate sanctuary is currently the top eco-tourism attraction on the Garden Route. The sanctuary is exceptional as it caters for several species of primates who are not caged. They are free to move about the forest and this they do most harmoniously.
Later in the evening go for a city orientation tour in Port Elizabeth.
Highlights of the tour include: Shark Rock Pier, Fort Frederick, Donkin Reserve, Pyramid Monument, Horse Memorial, St. George’s Cricket Ground, Feather Market, Library and City Hall.
Overnight at your hotel in Port Elizabeth.
Day 07: Port Elizabeth to Kwantu
After a late breakfast, depart to Kwantu from Port Elizabeth (90 minutes’ drive). Reach in time to your lodge for a hot lunch.
Situated in the heart a malaria free Eastern Cape on the Legendary Sidbury Plains, a Big 5 African Adventure begins where you can experience tranquil hospitality and enjoy the pure tranquillity that the reserve has to offer. This is Kwantu.
After some relaxation, take an evening game drive at Kwantu.
Dinner & overnight at your hotel/ Lodge in Kwantu.
Day 08: Kwantu
Kwantu Game Reserve will capture your imagination during your stay and leave you physically and mentally rejuvenated, soulfully inspired and in awe of our magnificent slice of Africa.
Located in South Africa’s malaria-fee adventure province, between Port Elizabeth and Grahamstown, the 6 000 hectare, big five, five-star nature reserve is positioned in one of the most biologically varied regions of the country. Kwantu Private Game Reserve is located on the legendary Sidbury Plains, in the heart of Frontier Country, along the banks of the Bushman’s River – a mere hour’s drive from Nelson Mandela Bay in the Eastern Cape of South Africa.
Morning & Evening Game drives at Kwantu.
All meals and overnight at your hotel / Lodge in Kwantu.
Day 09: Travel to Johannesburg. Relax or Shop!
After breakfast, catch a flight from Port Elizabeth to Johannesburg. The day is free for you to finish your shopping or to explore Johannesburg. Alternatively, you can go on a gold mine tour (optional)
A visit to the Kromdraai Gold Mine at the centre of the “Cradle of Humankind” will give you an unparalleled view of old mining methods. You’ll enter the old workings through a large opening in the side of the hill and a short walk down the coco pan tracks through roughly worked tunnels and into the heart of the mountain where you will marvel at the conditions that people had to endure while extracting the gold ore.
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Johannesburg is mostly known as the “New York of Africa” and has many places to pick up the perfect gift or souvenir, or just to browse around at what is on offer. From modern shopping centre complexes to local markets, it is certainly a varied shopping experience. Johannesburg can be considered as the shopping paradise in South Africa.
Travellers are able to shop in the more than 20 mega-malls around Johannesburg. Sandton City Shopping Centre, Nelson Mandela Square, Hype Park Corner, Oriental Plaza, Montecasino and Rosebank Mall are the places of the best shopping. There plenty of shopping malls and shopping centres that are mostly located in the northern suburbs. Most of them are exclusive and include all top international brands as well as with the popular local ones.
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Overnight at your hotel in Johannesburg.
Day 10: Flight from Johannesburg to back home
After breakfast, bid farewell to Johannesburg and transfer to Johannesburg airport to catch your flight home.
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