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KPG10J: Kruger Park + Cape Town
Day 1
Arrive Johannesburg Airport and meet your Kruger Park safari
host, who will introduce you to the beauty of the Eastern
Transvaal on your scenic 3-hour drive to Sabie and Hazyview.
Check in to your luxury guesthouse for dinner and overnight.
[Or 45-minute transfer from Mpumalanga Airport]
Day 2
 This morning 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.
Continue to Moholoholo Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre, where you
have the unique opportunity of viewing wild lion, leopard, cheetah,
eagles and vultures at close quarters. Animals found injured, poisoned
or orphaned are given a second chance and released back into the wilds.
Check in to your luxury guesthouse for dinner and overnight.
Day 3
 Today 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).
Days 4 & 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.
[Note: Children < 12 are not allowed on open top game drives. However
they may enjoy unlimited game drives in your host’s vehicle]
Day 6
This morning we return to Johannesburg Airport, stopping 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.
[Or fly from Mpumalanga Airport]
Depart Johannesburg Airport for your 2-hour flight to Cape Town. Meet
your Cape Town holiday 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
 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, then explore the shops and many other attractions of the
Victoria & Alfred Waterfront, which is also the centre of Cape Town’s nightlife.
Day 8
This morning your host will collect you for a full day tour to the beautiful
Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve.
We start with a short boat trip from Hout Bay to view Cape Fur seals at Seal Island.
We continue via spectacular Chapman’s Peak Drive to Cape Point where we hope to see
ostrich, baboons and perhaps even dolphins. On the return journey we pass through naval
Simons Town, and stop to see its resident penguin colony at Boulders Beach.
We also make a short stop at the Living Hope HIV/AIDs craft centre, your opportunity to
support this self-help scheme by purchasing some of their hand-made products, before returning
to your hotel in the late afternoon.
Day 9
 Another day of leisure in Cape Town.
Choose one of the many local excursions available such as a visit Robben Island,
the infamous prison home of Nelson Mandela. Alternatively explore the many sights of
Cape Town, shop at the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront, or simply relax on golden Camp’s
Bay or Clifton beach – the choice is yours!
Day 10
Enjoy a full day tour to the Stellenbosch Winelands today, travelling through the scenic
Franschhoek Valley where a handful of French Huguenot refugees started South Africa’s
now famous wine industry.
Visit the historic town of Stellenbosch and several different Wine Estates of your
choice – sampling as you go! Enjoy a picnic lunch at a wine estate, before visiting a
cheetah breeding project and another Wine Estate on the way home.
Day 11
Time-permitting, enjoy some last-minute sightseeing or shopping before your
return transfer to Cape Town Airport.
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