South Africa Safari

South Africa Safari

South Africa Desert Safari

 South Africa

  

Day 1 – Victoria Falls - Zambia
Depart from the Johannesburg International Airport on a 2-hour flight to Livingstone, on the Zambian side of the Victoria Falls. At the Livingstone Airport are met andtransferred to your hotel. The hotel is within easy walking distance of the Victoria Falls, to which you have unlimited access. 
Accommodation: Zambezi Sun Hotel
Dinner, bed & breakfast basis

 Day 2 – Victoria Falls - Zambia
A full day to spend at the Victoria Falls, where you can witness the greatest mass of falling water on earth as it plunges down a sheer rock face, spraying its mystical mist hundreds of meters in the air. A final highlight today is a romantic sundowner cruise on the mighty Zambezi River. 
Accommodation: Zambezi Sun Hotel
Dinner, bed & breakfast basis

 Day 3 – Gauteng Province - Johannesburg 
The morning is at leisure, after which you are transferred to the Livingstone Airport for your flight back to Johannesburg. On arrival at the Johannesburg International Airport you take the complimentary airport shuttle to your nearby hotel, where the night is spent.
Accommodation: The Peermont Mondior Hotel at Emperor’s Palace
Bed & breakfast basis

 Day 4 – Mpumalanga Province - Kruger National Park Border
An early departure from Johannesburg as we travel east towards the Mpumalanga Province and visit the many attractions along the “Panorama Route”, including God’s Window, the Bourke’s Luck Potholes and the viewpoint over the Blyde River Canyon at the Three Rondavels. In the afternoon we descend the eastern escarpment and travel through the warm “lowveld” to a beautiful country lodge, located just a short distance from the nearest entrance gate to the Kruger National Park.
Accommodation: Country Lodge
Dinner, bed & breakfast basis

 Day 5 – Mpumalanga/Limpopo Province - Kruger National Park
We depart before dawn and travel the short distance to the entrance gate to the Kruger National Park. Once inside the Park, excitement will mount as we start seeing some of the numerous animals that inhabit this magnificent wildlife sanctuary. Breakfast packs will be provided, which we will enjoy at a picnic spot inside the Kruger Park. We spend virtually the entire day travelling inside the Kruger Park, arriving at our “restcamp” in the late afternoon. Accommodation tonight is in comfortable en-suite bungalows or cottages, and dinner is enjoyed in the camp restaurant.
Accommodation: Satara, Olifants, Letaba or Skukuza Restcamp 
Dinner, bed & breakfast basis

Day 6 – Mpumalanga/Limpopo Province – Private Game Reserve 
After breakfast we depart from our restcamp, and spend most of the morning inside the Kruger Park, game-viewing as we go. Around mid-day we exit the Park, and travel to an exclusive lodge in a nearby private game reserve, where later this afternoon your first exhilarating game drive in specially adapted open 4X4 vehicles is undertaken. At dusk sundowners are enjoyed deep in the bush, after which the drive continues, making use of spotlights to search for nocturnal animals. A final highlight today is a specially prepared dinner at the lodge.
Accommodation: Private Game Lodge 
Fully inclusive of all meals & game-viewing activities

Day 7 – Mpumalanga/Limpopo Province - Private Game Reserve
An early wake up call signals the start of yet another exciting day in Big Five territory. You depart on an early morning safari in open 4x4 vehicles after which you return to the lodge for a late breakfast. 
After breakfast you can embark on a guided bush walk with an armed ranger, who will identify spoor and droppings and share with you some of the fascinating secrets of the bush. If you are lucky you may come across big game on foot - a truly exhilarating experience. This evening another safari in open 4x4 vehicles is undertaken, followed by a scrumptious South African dinner.
Accommodation: Private Game Lodge 
Fully inclusive of all meals & game-viewing activities

 Day 8 – Western Cape Province – Cape Town 
After a final open vehicle game drive breakfast, you are collected from the lodge and transferred to the Hoedspruit or Nelspruit Airport for a domestic flight to Johannesburg, where you connect with a flight to Cape Town. Upon your arrival at the Cape Town International Airport you are met and transferred to your hotel, ideally located at the entrance to the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront.
Accommodation: City Lodge Victoria & Alfred Waterfront
Bed & breakfast basis

Day 9 – Western Cape Province – Cape Town
This morning we undertake an orientation walk through the vibrant Victoria & Alfred Waterfront, led by your tour guide. We then depart on a Cape Town City, Table Mountain & Blouberg Beach Tour. This tour incorporates some of the most interesting and historical sights of Cape Town, unforgettable views from the Table Mountain Arial Cableway, and the summit of Table Mountain itself. The tour ends with a visit to Blouberg Beach which offers outstanding photographic opportunities of Cape Town City, the Cape Town Waterfront and Table Mountain across Table Bay.
Includes:

Table Mountain – weather permitting (otherwise Signal Hill)

Scenic City tour passing the Houses of Parliament, the City Hall & the Castle of Good Hope

"Bo-Kaap" (traditional Malay Quarter)

Green Market Square

District Six

Blouberg Beach

Please note: 
As the operation of the Table Mountain Arial Cable Way is weather-dependent, the Cable Car Fare is for your own account and is payable at the ticket office.
You are requested to be ready for pick-up at 09:00, and will be back at the hotel at approx 17:30.
Accommodation: City Lodge Victoria & Alfred Waterfront
Bed & breakfast basis

Day 10 – Western Cape Province – Cape Town
Today you undertake a full day Cape Point Tour. First on the program is a drive to Cape Point, where traditionally the two oceans, the Atlantic and the Indian meet. On our drive along the rugged and scenic Atlantic coast, you will begin to understand why Sir Francis Drake described this as “the most beautiful Cape in whole the circumference of the globe”, but also why at times the Portuguese name of the “Cape of Storms”, could be as appropriate. We also visit Boulder’s Beach, home of one of the very rare African Penguin colonies on the African coast. The tour ends with a visit to the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens, world-renowned for the beauty and diversity of the Cape flora it displays, and for the magnificence of its setting against the eastern slopes of Table Mountain.
Includes:

Clifton & Camps Bay beach views

Picturesque Chapman’s Peak Drive

Cape Point & nature reserve

The Cape of Good Hope

Penguin colony at Boulder’s Beach

Fish Hoek & Simon’s Town

Kirstenbosch botanical gardens

Please note: 
For those who do not feel up to the stiff walk to the view site at Cape Point, there is an electrically powered funicular railway, the only one of its kind in the world. The cost of the funicular is included.
You are requested to be ready for pick-up at 08:30, and will be back at the hotel at approx 17:30.
Accommodation: City Lodge Victoria & Alfred Waterfront
Bed & breakfast basis

 Day 11 – Western Cape Province – Cape Town
This morning you are collected for a full day tour of the magnificent Cape Winelands. The picturesque towns of Paarl, Franschhoek and Stellenbosch, in the heart of South Africa’s wine producing areas, will be visited today. Apart from magnificent scenery, these towns have much to offer and one thing that may not be missed is a visit to a few of the many wine estates, where some of South Africa’s best wines can be sampled.
Includes:
Paarl

An informative drive through the town of Paarl

A cellar tour with wine tasting

The Afrikaans Language Monument, the world’s only monument dedicated to a language

Franschhoek

A visit to a wine estate with wine tasting

The village of Franschhoek

The Huguenot Memorial

Stellenbosch

The Helshoogte Mountain Pass

City tour of Stellenbosch with some free time to explore on foot

A visit to a wine estate with wine tasting

You are requested to be ready for pick-up at 08:30, and will be back at the hotel at approx 17:30.
Accommodation: City Lodge Victoria & Alfred Waterfront
Bed & breakfast basis