Safari Quick Facts

After breakfast, we have a full day Cape Peninsular Tour, including Seal Island, Cape Point, Fish Hoek, Boulders Beach's penguins, and the National Botanical Gardens at Kirstenbosch.

Today after breakfast, we have a full day tour into the Cape Winelands area of Stellenbosch, Franschoek, Paarl etc. We visit wine farms where we learn about wine making, and visit other attractions such as the Cheetah Park at Spier Wine Estate.

Today is a free day for you to relax and explore Cape Town further at your leisure. No activities are included today.
There may be new passengers joining today to travel with us along the Garden Route for the rest of our tour. The Tour Guide will advise if there is to be a meeting which you may attend if you wish to meet your fellow travellers. If not, or if you are busy exploring, then the Tour Guide will advise the departure time from Cape Town the following morning.

After breakfast at the hotel, you will be met by your Tour Guide to start your tour of the Garden Route. Today we drive down the coastline stopping along the way at Hermanus, renowned for its whale sightings. From here we continue to Mosselbay where we spend the night. First discovered by Bartolomeu Dias more than 500 years ago, the town has a fascinating history. Visit the world-wide known Post Office Tree, under which, in 1501, a letter was left by a ship’s commander, to be discovered by the commander of the third East India fleet en route to India. Thus, South Africa’s first post office came into being. It has been declared a National Monument. Dominating the interior of the Maritime Museum is the spectacular life-size replica of Diaz’s caravel, the ship he sailed in when first anchoring in Mossel Bay.

After breakfast at your hotel, we continue further down the Garden Route passing the towns of George and Knysna and reaching Plettenberg Bay where we will be based for 3 nights. We stay at a River Lodge, a unique and relaxing playground on the banks of the Keurbooms River Lagoon just outside Plettenberg Bay, offering spacious comfort and style in beautiful, natural surroundings. The afternoon will be at leisure to enjoy the surroundings. A beautiful beach is a short walk away from the hotel.

After breakfast at your hotel, we then make our way to Knysna. We go on a guided tour of the Featherbed Nature Reserve. The Featherbed Nature Reserve is a prime example of eco-tourism and in order to protect the splendour of the natural beauty, access to the Reserve is controlled. Numbers are limited and visits are only permitted in the company of the Reserve's specialist guides.
The Featherbed eco-experience starts with a 25-minute ferry cruise. Your local guide on board will share fascinating tales about the Lagoon, the early shipping industry and oyster cultivation.
On arrival at the Reserve, visitors can enjoy a drive to the top of the Western Head in a 4 x 4 unimog vehicle with trailers, stopping at a magnificent view point en route. Here unsurpassed views of the Lagoon, mountains and Knysna can be enjoyed, whilst our knowledgeable guides explain the history and ecology of the Reserve. After the drive, your specialist guide will take you on an optional 2.2 kilometer downhill walk.
We then visit the Knysna Elephant Park in the afternoon. Guests are transported to the elephants on our tractor & trailer where they will have the opportunity to touch, feed and photograph our gentle giants and fall in love with our gorgeous baby ellie's. Elephants love eating so don’t forget your bucket of fruit and vegetables. There are no barriers or fences to spoil the close encounter. Guests are then transported back to the unique elephant curios shop and Askaris restaurant.
Later we return to Plettenberg Bay to our hotel.

Today after breakfast, we head to the Tsitsikamma Forest and enjoy the beautiful scenery in park. En-route we visit Monkeyland for a tour of the facility. Monkeyland is the world’s first free roaming multi-species primate sanctuary. Monkeyland has as one of its aims, to create awareness about the plight of primates and to show that with a greater understanding of our primate cousins, that we can all live in harmony.
The Tsitsikamma Coastal National Park, proclaimed in 1964, lies in the heart of the Garden Route and extends five kilometers out to sea. The park is 80 km of rocky coastline with spectacular sea - and landscapes, fynbos, evergreen forests, deep river gorges, beautiful flowers and small game, and teems with birds, and at times, even whales and dolphins. There are a host of optional adventure activities to partake in at the Tsitsikamma Forest from Tree Top Canopy tours to bungee jumping.
We return to Plettenberg Bay at the end of the day.

Following breakfast at the hotel, we depart Plettenberg Bay and make our way back down the Garden Route, leaving the coastline at George over the Outeniqua Pass into the semi-desert Klein Karoo and onto the ostrich capital of the world, Oudtshoorn.
We proceed to the Highgate Ostrich Ranch. Here we come face to face with the biggest bird in the world. After lunch we visit the Cango Caves, internationally renowned as one of the world’s great natural wonders sculpted by nature through the ages. Their fascinating limestone formation occurs in a variety of ways. We visit the Cheetah and Crocodile Farm (Cango Wildlife Ranch). Over 300 crocodiles, ranging from 50 cm to 4 metres in length, inhabit the ranch.

After breakfast we make our way back to Cape Town where the tour ends. Here you can connect with an onward flight, or you may choose to spend additional time in Cape Town. Please note that the drive will take about 4 hours, and you are advised not to book any flights out of Cape Town before 4pm at the earliest.

No accommodation is included today, but we will be pleased to organise this for you.