OPQ10M: Golf: Kruger Park + Cape Town

Day 1

Arrive Mpumalanga Airport after your 1-hour connecting flight from Johannesburg.

You will be met by your Kruger Park golf host who will introduce you to the beauty of the Eastern Transvaal on your scenic 45-minute transfer to Sabie.

Check in to your hotel on the banks of the Sabie River and relax in your sub-tropical surroundings.

Day 2

After a leisurely breakfast, your Kruger National Park golfing holiday starts today as you play the beautiful Sabie River Sun course.

With reliably warm weather year round, enjoy the fine fairways of an enjoyable top Lowveld championship course, before enjoying the “19th hole” under balmy African skies.

Your host will arrange mid-morning tee times wherever possible, with shared cart. He will also arrange return hotel transfers, where required.

NON-GOLFERS:
Enjoy a Spa Treatment at your hotel and then relax beside the swimming pool or bird watch along the Sabie River.

Day 3

Your South African golfing holiday continues today as golfers transfer to play your choice of:

• Nelspruit Country Club – a challenging championship course that is tough but fair and will provide a memorable golfing day; or
• White River Country Club – a sociable local club with a beautifully course and abundant bird life.

NON-GOLFERS:
Indigenous Arts & Crafts shopping excursion

Day 4

Today your host will share with you the splendour of the Drakensberg Panorama Route, as you drive through Blyde River Canyon, the third largest canyon in the world. View Mac Mac Falls, Bourke’s Luck Potholes and the panoramic views from God’s Window. If time permits, we also make a brief stop at the historic mining village of Pilgrim’s Rest.

In the afternoon we enter the world famous Kruger National Park. Game viewing opportunities should present themselves almost immediately in this vast 2-million hectare game sanctuary the size to Wales. Hopefully we will see several species of antelope, zebra, wildebeest and maybe even giraffe before we reach camp.

The Kruger Park offers a choice of seven camps, each situated in a different section of the park with its own unique flora and fauna: Skukuza, Letaba, Olifants, Lower Sabie, Pretoriuskop, Satara and Berg-en-Dal. Accommodation is in simple but comfortable thatched game park bungalows, with each camp having a restaurant and a small shop. Check in, settle-in and relax in your outdoor bushveld surroundings before enjoying dinner (exact camp subject to availability at time of booking).

Day 5

As you will have the services of a private driver/guide throughout your safari, you will have the flexibility of discussing preferred routings and travelling times with him each day. However we recommend setting off early each morning as the camp gates open (05h30 to 06h00 depending on the season), to take advantage of the best game viewing conditions of the day.

Explore the vast Kruger Plains, which offer magnificent game viewing opportunities and the highest concentration of lion in the whole of Africa. Hopefully we will see at least one of the Big Five today - Lion, Elephant, Buffalo, Leopard and Rhino, before returning to camp at around 09h00 for breakfast. The rest of the morning can be spent relaxing at camp, reading or bird watching, before setting out again at the time of your choice (usually the late afternoon) for another game drive.

One game drive per day will be in an open-top game viewing vehicle operated by the Kruger Park (either early morning, late afternoon or evening), with all other game drives taken with your host in an air-conditioned minibus, as this is more comfortable in the heat of the day. With nearly 150 different species of mammals and over 100 species of reptiles in the Kruger Park, we hope to see giraffe, kudu, sable antelope, waterbuck, warthogs, baboons, wild dogs and many other interesting animals.

In the evening, enjoy the balmy weather and pristine stars of the Southern Sky and Milky Way, as you have never seen them before – including the spectacular Southern Cross.

Day 6

Return transfer to Mpumalanga Airport for your 2-hour flight to Cape Town. Time permitting, on the way we stop at a Cultural Village and self-help project to give you the opportunity of supporting the local community by purchasing one of their handmade products.

Arrive Cape Town Airport and meet your Cape Town golf host, who will transfer you to your luxury hotel conveniently situated near the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront. Check in and relax in your magnificent surroundings.

Day 7

Your Cape Town golf holiday starts today, as your host transfers you to play at your choice of:

• Steenberg County Club – a premier championship course, situated in the beautiful Constantia Winelands; or

• Clovelly Country Club – a challenging championship course with rolling fairways, water features and natural sand dunes, situated on the scenic Cape Peninsula; or

• Westlake Country Club – a social club situated at the foot of the “Ou Kaapse Weg” (the old Cape Road) near Muizenberg

After play explore the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront, with its vibrant nightlife and wide choice of excellent cuisine.

NON-GOLFERS:
Full day small group excursion to Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve and Cape Point.

Day 8

Your golfing holiday in Cape Town continues today, as golfers transfer to play your choice of:

• Royal Cape – Cape Town’s oldest golf course, with narrow tree-lined fairways which demand accuracy off the tees; or
• Atlantic Beach – a challenging championship links courses on the shores of Table Bay (particularly difficult if the winds blows); or
• Milnerton – a sociable club with true links course and stunning views of Table Mountain

NON-GOLFERS:
Visit to Robben Island, infamous prison home of Nelson Mandela, followed by free time for shopping and sightseeing at the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront

Day 9

Today is free for independent sightseeing in Cape Town.

You will be given a day pass for the convenient red Hop-On Hop-Off Bus, which stops at all Cape Town’s key sights and beaches. Start by ascending Table Mountain by cable car 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.

Alternatively choose one of the many local excursions available or simply relax on golden Camp’s Bay or Clifton beach – the choice is yours!

Day 10

This morning transfer to play golf in the Stellenbosch Winelands. Choose between:

• Erinvale Country Club – a renowned Gary Player designed championship course and home to the 1996 Golf World Cup and many other South African PGA events; or
• Pearl Valley – a beautiful Jack Nicklaus designed championship course, situated in the beautiful Paarl Winelands; or
• Stellenbosch Country Club – a popular social course, situated in the heart of the Stellenbosch Winelands with magnificent mountain views.

NON-GOLFERS:
Half day small group tour of the beautiful Stellenbosch Winelands, with wine tasting

Day 11

Return transfer to Cape Town Airport.