Garden Route Safari Holidays Garden Route South Africa Holidays Tours

Cape Town + Garden Route + Safari
CRJ10C

10 NIGHTS
FROM $1,654
International flights quoted separately
This popular holiday allows you to combine Cape Town and the beautiful Garden Route with a malaria-free safari in the Eastern Cape - all without having to drive yourself. Chose your level of accommodation and only buy those tours that interest you (e.g. Featherbed Nature Reserve), before completing your holiday with a thrilling Big-5 safari near Port Elizabeth.
HIGHLIGHTS
Cape Town Safari Garden Route South Africa Garden Route Boulders Beach Penguins Whales Dolphins
• Cape Town • Table Mountain • Cape Point • Robben Island
• Winelands • Knysna • Featherbed • Eastern Cape
• Game Drives • Bird Watching
Day 1
You will be met at Cape Town Airport and transferred to your hotel in this beautiful city, within sight of Table Mountain.
 
Check in and relax in your magnificent surroundings.
Day 2
Today is free for independent sightseeing in Cape Town.
 
We recommend you purchase an optional day pass for the red route of the convenient Hop-Off Bus, which stops at all Cape Town’s key sights and beaches. Start by ascending Table Mountain by cable car (optional) to enjoy one of the world’s most famous views. Continue to Camps Bay beach and then explore the shops and many other attractions of the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront, which is also the centre of Cape Town’s nightlife.
Day 3
Today we recommend an optional full day tour to the beautiful Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve, where two oceans meet and where you may see see baboons, ostrich and perhaps even dolphins or whales in season (July/November).
  
Your tour travels through Hout Bay and along spectacular Chapman’s Peak Drive (when open) to the Cape Point, returning via Simons Town, Fish Hoek, Constantia and Kirstenbosch Gardens. This is a scenic tour of the whole Cape Peninsula, with the optional opportunity of visiting the penguin colony at Boulders Beach.
Day 4
At leisure to explore the beautiful city of Cape Town independently.
 
Choose one of the many local activities such as a visit to Robben Island, the infamous prison home of Nelson Mandela (advance booking essential in season); explore the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront or simply relax on golden Camps Bay beach – the choice is yours!
Day 5
Today we recommend an optional full day tour to the renowned Stellenbosch Winelands, travelling through the scenic Franschhoek Valley where a handful of French Huguenot refugees started South Africa’s now famous wine industry.
 
Explore the historic university town of Stellenbosch and several famous Wine Estates on this famous wine route, which stretched from Paarl through to Stellenbosch and Franschhoek. Enjoy a cellar tour and some wine tasting, before returning to Cape Town in the late afternoon.
Day 6
Transfer to Cape Town Airport for your onward flight.

You will be met at George Airport and transferred 1-hour through the Outeniqua Pass and along the spectacular Garden Route.
  
Check into your hotel and relax in this area of outstanding natural beauty.
Day 7
This morning we recommend a visit to Featherbed Nature Reserve situated on Knysna's Western Head - one of two magnificent sandstone cliffs guarding the entrance to the vast Knysna Lagoon.
 
This spectacular nature reserve is only accessible by ferry, followed by a short trailer ride to the top of the reserve which offers panoramic views. Most visitors choose to return on foot along a 1-mile Guided Nature Walk through natural coastal forest onto the cliffs, through caves and along a scenic coastal path, followed by a seafood buffet lunch served under the old Milkwood trees.
  
The remainder of the afternoon is free to explore Knysna on foot. This lively town is famous for its oysters, which are grown in the lagoon. It offers good shopping opportunities and many interesting craft shops.
Day 8
This morning transfer 4-hours along the scenic Garden Route to your malaria-free Private Game Reserve near Addo in the beautiful Eastern Cape.
 
After checking in to your safari lodge enjoy a late afternoon game drive, where game viewing opportunities should present themselves almost immediately. Hopefully see several species of antelope, zebra, wildebeest and maybe even giraffe - as well as several of the Big Five - before dining under the stars in your warm African surroundings!
Days 9 To 10
Rise at dawn to take advantage of the best game viewing conditions of the day and enjoy a thrilling open-top game viewing safari with your lodge ranger in your Private Game Reserve which is home to all the Big Five - Lion, Elephant, Buffalo, Leopard and Rhino. Hope to see many interesting species before returning to your lodge for breakfast. Note: game drives are optional extras, if not included in your lodge package (see hotel details below).
   
The rest of the morning is free to relax by the lodge swimming pool, before setting out again in the late afternoon for another game drive. Hope to see giraffe, hippo, kudu, crocodiles, antelope, waterbuck, warthogs, baboons and many other interesting animals. With hundreds of different bird species, outstanding bird watching is also guaranteed!
  
After a beautiful African sunset, enjoy the balmy evening and pristine stars of the Milky Way as you have never seen them before – as well as the spectacular Southern Cross.
 
Children < 6 are not allowed on open top game drives
Day 11
Enjoy some final early morning game viewing, before your 1-hour transfer to Port Elizabeth Airport for your flight home.