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: Kruger National Park. Game drive in Kruger
After breakfast, bid goodbye to Cape Town take a flight to Johannesburg. From there transfer to Kruger National park in the Mpumalanga province which is a minimum 5 hour journey. This is the southern part of the park. Check in to your hotel and relax. In the afternoon, go for a Game drive to see the BIG 5 in the World renowned Kruger National Park. (Time dependant)
Kruger National Park is one of the largest game reserves in Africa. It covers 19,485 square kilometres (7,523 sq. mi) and extends 360 kilometres (220 mi) from north to south and 65 kilometres (40 mi) from east to west. To the west and south of the Kruger National Park are the two South African provinces of Limpopo and Mpumalanga.
Kruger has the maximum number of wild animals in South Africa.
All meals and overnight at your hotel / lodge in the Krugar National Park.
Day 05: Full day / 2 game drives in Kruger
Today enjoy a morning and evening game drive at Krugar National park. All meals and overnight at your hotel / lodge in the Kruger National park.
Day 06: Limpopo province. Evening Game drive in a private game reserve
Travel further today to reach the Limpopo province which is a couple of hours away. Check in to your lodge / hotel bordering the Kruger National Park in a private game reserve. Evening game drive at the private game reserve. Though the private game drive borders Kruger there is no physical border and animals are free to come and go as they please.
All meals and overnight at your hotel / lodge in the private game reserve.
Day 07: Full day / 2 game drives in a private game reserve, Limpopo province.
Today enjoy a morning and evening game drive at the private game reserve. All meals and overnight at your hotel / lodge at the private game reserve.
Day 08: Travel to Johannesburg. Relax or Shop!
After breakfast, catch a flight from Kruger 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 09: 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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