Feel the excitement build as your flight touches down at Cape Town Airport, where you will be met and transferred to your hotel near the V&A Waterfront for a four night stay.

With three full days, you have time to see the sights, learn about the city’s history and unique culture, and discover the stunning coastal landscapes nearby. You can explore independently or pre-book guided excursions, including to Table Mountain, the Cape of Good Hope and Robben Island. Just let your Travel Consultant know what you would like to do.

Protea Hotel Breakwater

Breakfast

This morning you will be met by your local tour guide and depart for the scenic Garden Route. Travel along Sir Lowry’s Pass, with its magnificent views, to Grabouw and Elgin, a lush landscape surrounded by majestic mountains. Stop en route at a farmstall packed with locally produced products from the area. Our journey continues to Cape Agulhas, the southernmost tip of Africa, where the Atlantic and Indian Oceans meet. The area has largely been untouched and unexplored with its rugged coastline being the graveyard for many a ship. The historic Cape Agulhas Lighthouse is considered the icon that signifies the tip of Africa.

After visiting the lighthouse, continue via historic Swellendam and the Tradouw Pass to Barrydale and the famous Route 62. Continue to Oudtshoorn, the ‘ostrich feather capital’ and centre of the world’s Ostrich farming industry. Enjoy dinner at an Ostrich Farm, dining on local specialities such as Ostrich steak. Overnight in Oudtshoorn.

La Plume Guest House or similar

Dinner

After a leisurely breakfast take a tour of the spectacular limestone caverns of the Cango Caves, one of the world’s great natural wonders, sculpted by nature through the ages. Join an interactive guided tractor tour at a working Ostrich Farm, followed by a wine tasting, sampling top quality wines of the region. Overnight in Oudtshoorn.

La Plume Guest House or similar

Breakfast, Dinner

After breakfast, travel over the Outeniqua Pass to George, the sixth oldest town in South Africa, with many historical landmarks like the Slave Tree and King Edward VII Library building; said to be the best example of Edwardian architecture in the town. The tour travels via Wilderness, an attractive holiday resort, to Knysna, known as the oyster box of South Africa, nestling on the banks of a beautiful lagoon in the heart of the Garden Route.

Enjoy a delicious lunch en route of traditional cuisine and local treats. The remainder of the day is at leisure until you join an afternoon sunset cruise on the Knysna Lagoon.

Rex Hotel or similar

Breakfast, Lunch

Today you’ll have the opportunity to further explore the natural beauty of the Garden Route. Visit Monkeyland Primate Sanctuary, where you will be able to see a variety of primates, roaming free in the forest. The sanctuary is well known for its efforts to rehabilitate and free previously caged primates.

The tour continues to the famous Eastern Head, where you will enjoy spectacular views of the Knysna Heads, before travelling to the nature lovers paradise of Brenton on Sea with its unspoilt beaches. The remainder of the afternoon will be at leisure.

Rex Hotel or similar

Breakfast

After breakfast travel to the Plettenberg Bay area where you will visit Birds of Eden sanctuary, the biggest single free flight aviary in the world. The sanctuary provides a safe environment in which to release a large collection of free-flight African birds.

The journey continues to Bloukrans Bridge, the highest single span arch bridge in the world, currently offering the highest commercially operated bungy jump in the world (optional!).

Later, visit the Tsitsikamma National Park which contains the popular Storms River Mouth suspension bridge. The park incorporates 80 km of rocky coastline, secluded valleys covered in mountain Fynbos and temperate forests with deep river gorges leading down to the sea.

Tsitsikamma Village Inn or similar

Breakfast

After breakfast, travel eastwards by the Tsitsikamma Forest to Port Elizabeth (Gqeberha), where the tour ends and you will be dropped off at your hotel for a one night stay. Enjoy the rest of the day at leisure.

The Beach Hotel or similar

Breakfast

After breakfast, you’ll be met at the hotel for your transfer to the picturesque Kariega Game Reserve for a three night stay in Ukhozi Lodge. Family owned since 1989, the reserve covers 11,500 hectares of pristine African wilderness, dissected by the Kariega and Bushmans Rivers, both magnets for wildlife.

Your stay at Kariega Game Reserve includes all meals and morning and afternoon game drives in search of lion, elephant, buffalo, cheetah, antelope, to name but a few species that reside in the park. You can also join a river cruise or guided bushwalk, led by an experienced ranger.

Between activities, enjoy the luxuries of a private reserve and the relaxed atmosphere that comes with it. Spend time on your private deck or by the pool, or indulge in a spa treatment.

Kariega Game Reserve

Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

You’ll be collected this morning for the scenic drive to Port Elizabeth Airport for your flight home.