Summary
A 2 week budget tour through South Africa covering all main attractions and sites including Kruger, Hluhluwe, Durban, Wild Coast, Garden Route, Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope and the Winelands.
Included in the package is:
Pick up and drop of at Johannesburg International Airport
Driver and comfortable Land Cruiser Vehicle (brand new) and fuel costs
Accommodation (mainly 3 and 4 star lodges, hotels and chalets)
Park entrance fees
Activities as described in itinerary
Not included is your flights, tipping, snacks, insurance, any activities you want to do beyond what is mentioned in itinerary, visa and medical arrangements, if a meal costs more than 250 rand please settle extra amount, and anything else not mentioned in the itinerary
Activities
- Animal Tracking
- Camping
- Cheetah Tracking
- Evening Drives
- Game Walk
- Morning Drives
- Night drive
- Township tour
- Wilderness Trail
- Game drive
- Culture
- Photo-safari
Places
- Cape Town, South Africa
- Table Mountain, South Africa
- Cape of Good Hope, South Africa
- Cape Winelands, South Africa
- Cape Peninsula, South Africa
- Franschhoek, South Africa
- Knysna, South Africa
- Western Cape, South Africa
- Garden Route, South Africa
- Johannesburg, South Africa
- Durban, South Africa
- Port Elizabeth, South Africa
- Kruger National Park, South Africa
- Karoo, South Africa
- Gauteng, South Africa
- Mpumalanga, South Africa
- Hluhluwe
Physical Condition
- Normal Physical Condition
Connectivity
- WiFi and phone coverage at lodges
Day-by-day Description
Day 1Meet in Johannesburg and transfer to Hazyview outside Kruger
Activities Included
Scenic DriveYour driver, who speaks English, Xhosa, Zulu and Portuguese meets you in Johannesburg and escorts you to the quaint town of Hazyview just outside Kruger.
Stay in comfortable three star chalets.
Day 2 to Day 3Kruger National Park
Activities Included
Animal Tracking Morning Drives Night drive Scenic Drive Photo-safariExplore Kruger over the course of 2 days and stay in a comfortable 3 or 4 star lodge or tented camp.
Travel Time: 1 hrs
Day 4Hluhluwe National Park
Activities Included
Scenic DriveTransfer to Kwa Zulu Natal and stay at a tented camp or lodge outside Hluhluwe National Park. The park is most famous for it's rhino population. Last time we went we saw 9 rhino in one afternoon!
Travel Time: 5 hrs
Day 5Hluhluwe Game Drive
Activities Included
Scenic Drive Game driveExplore the park and then drive down the scenic wild coast to Coffee Bay where we stay in a 3 or 4 star guest house near the sea.
Travel Time: 4 hrs
Day 6Explore the wild coast
Activities Included
Scenic Drive CultureExplore the wild coast and the area where Nelson Mandela came from, drive down to Port Elizabeth and stay at a 3 star trendy boutique hotel like The Hub or City Lodge.
Day 7Garden Route
Activities Included
Scenic Drive CulturePerhaps the most scenic drive in Southern Africa, explore the Garden Route and sleep in the quaint town of Knysna, stay at a 3 or 4 star guest house like Blackwaters River Lodge or a tented camp.
Travel Time: 4 hrs
Day 8Culture in Knysna and evening in Cape Town
Explore Knysna and continue to Cape Town on the Garden Route, stay at a trendy boutique hotel like Mojo.
Travel Time: 4 hrs
Day 9Cape Town
Discover the mother city and its vibrant culture. Stay at a 3 or 4 star hotel such as the trendy designer hotel Mojo just by the sea in Sea Point
Day 10Cape of Good Hope
Meet Penguins and go to the iconic cape of good hope and stay at the same trendy hotel.
Travel Time: 2 hrs
Day 11Wine... and more wine
Today we head to Franschhoek and Stellenbosch for wine tasting and sleep in a quaint wineyard guesthouse (3 or 4 star such as the Devon Valley) in the gorgeous Cape Winelands.
Travel Time: 1 hrs
Day 12Drive through the Karoo toward the heart of South Africa
We drive cross country, experience the life of Afrikaners and stay in the center of the country. Sleep in Kimberley or Bloemfontein.
Travel Time: 6 hrs
Day 13Drive to Johannesburg and spend the night there
We head for Johannesburg and spend the evening in the cultural epi-center of the country, Soweto
Travel Time: 6 hrs
Day 14Good bye
We enjoyed having you! We will see you off at the airport
Offical Visa Regulations and Health Requirements
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