Name: 6 Day Perfect Cape Town and Garden Route Adventure Safari Group Tour in South Africa
Brand: Amatungulu Tours
Price: 39900 ZAR
Availability: InStock

Guided South Africa Safari

Discover and experience the best of South Africa’s picturesque Garden Route during this round-trip safari from Cape Town. You will visit the Addo Elephant National Park where you can get close to elephants, big cats like lion, buffalo, black rhino, hyena, a variety of antelope, and in the marine section, great white sharks and southern right whales, as this is one of the few reserves in the world housing the Big Seven. Hike through lush forests and canoe on the picture-perfect water and unwind and soak in the sun on soft, sandy beaches for an unforgettable holiday!

Key information

Maximum group size: 8 persons
Children policy: Children aged 4 to 12 have a discount, while those under 4 years go free
Starting point and ending point: Cape Town
Languages: English and Afrikaans
Park fees are included

Meet the guides

Jakes
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Highlights

Safari in Addo National Park
Wine tasting and heritage tour
A wild meerkat tour at De Zeekoe
Discover Mossel Bay, Jeffrey's Bay, and Oudtshoorn
Interesting museum visit
Breakfasts and welcome pack
Transport by private vehicle
5 nights' accommodation

Styles

6 activity days in English

The organizer also speaks: Afrikaans

Group size: 2-9 participants

Airport transfer included: Cape Town International Airport

Program

Day 1

You leave your hotel for Cape Town's most famous icon: Table Mountain by the Aerial Cableway to take in the natural beauty and stunning views. See the first botanical garden in the world to be established (in 1913) to protect local flora, Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden in the UNESCO-listed Cape Floral Kingdom follows. Lunch is at an African cuisine restaurant. Visiting Groot Constantia, you taste their export quality wines. You overnight at the Caledon Hotel and Spa.

The Caledon Hotel and Spa which has an impressive view of the Klein Swartberg Mountains and the continuing wheat fields. The hotel offers guests mineral-rich hot springs and spa. The wellness center is equipped with comfortable seating, natural hot springs, lap pool, steam room, sauna, frigidarium (the distinctive brown color of the water is due to the rich mineral content known as chalybeate), Swiss shower, elegant Victorian bathhouse (erected 1897), and outdoor Jacuzzi.

Day 2

Drive for approximately 3 hours to the town of Mossel Bay where you visit the Bartolomeu Dias museum complex to see the famous 500-year-old Post Office Tree, the life-size replica of the Dias Caravel, the Shell Museum and Aquarium and Ethno-Botanical Garden. A shark cage diving experience or a slide down the world’s longest over-ocean zipline can be arranged at Mossel Bay as optional activities. Now off to the town of Wilderness, where you will overnight at the Wilderness Hotel.

Day 3

After breakfast a drive through Knysna takes you to the town of Plettenberg Bay, where you can take a boat ride for a “Dolphin Encounters” excursion of 2 hours at Ocean Blue Adventures. This follows a drive to the world’s highest bridge bungee jump at Bloukrans Bridge. Standing 709 feet (216 meters) above the Bloukrans River, the arch bridge is the ideal place to bungee jump. This is an optional activity (own expense), and you are free to watch the bungee jumpers take the plunge. A short drive takes you to the 1000-year-old Big Tree in the Tsitsikamma forest. You overnight at On The Beach Guest House Jeffrey’s Bay (or similar).

The picturesque surfing mecca of Jeffrey's Bay boasts a considerable reputation that stretches far and wide. Most noted for producing the best right-hand surf break in the world, with the main surfing spot in Jeffrey's Bay named Supertubes. The constant swell and wave formation found at many of Jeffreys Bay's beaches produce the ideal 'tubes' that have resulted in Supertubes becoming the location for the annual Billabong Pro surfing contest.

Day 4

You have an early morning start for a day trip to Addo Elephant National Park, the third-largest national park in South Africa. Home to elephants, lions, buffalo, black rhino, spotted hyena, leopard, a variety of antelope, and zebra species, this park host the largest remaining population of wild elephants on the planet. You’ll enjoy a safari with your knowledgeable guide and get the opportunity to see buffalo and other big animals.

Have dinner at De Viswijf, situated on the beachfront of the in Jeffrey's Bay. Enjoy an extensive menu comprising of seafood, beef, poultry, traditional local dishes, and several exotic dishes. Their extensive wine list includes wines from numerous South African wine estates and regions that are made to satisfy and tantalize your palate. Overnight at the same venue in Jeffrey’s Bay.

Day 5

After breakfast, you’ll travel approximately four hours on the famous Route 62 to get to Oudtshoorn for a Heritage Tour at the Cango Caves. Located in a limestone ridge parallel to the picturesque Swartberg Mountains, the caves include over 2.5 miles (4 km) of dripstone caverns with vast halls and towering formations of stalactites and stalagmites. You’ll walk through some of this subterranean wonderland with your guide on a 2-hour tour of the caves. From here you go to an Ostrich Farm where the largest fowl in the world can be studied. You drive to your overnight farm at De Zeekoe (or similar). This area is surrounded by the Swartberg and Outeniqua mountains, and one of the world’s 17 “hot spots” with 3 overlapping flower zones, which is located between the lush green Garden Route and the wide-open spaces of the Klein (Little) Karoo with the Outeniqua and Swartberg mountain ranges as a backdrop.

Day 6

Get up before sunrise to take part in a wild meerkat tour which offers you the unique opportunity to see these animals that are part of the shy 5 in their natural environment. Breakfast follows your return to Cape Town along Route 62, the world's longest wine route. You’ll pass through breathtaking scenery and have plenty of rest stops. Also to be visited is Ronnie's Sex Shop which had visitors from all over the world, judging by the graffiti on its wall. There will be more stops for a wine tasting before reaching Cape Town in the evening to end your tour.

Guides

Jakes Conradie

Jakes Conradie is a South African born who extensively traveled the country. He is competent to advise clients about all the essential aspects of traveling to South Africa. Having passed the SA Specialist Course from South African Tourism, he is always on the lookout to assist, improve the environment, and motivate communities to protect nature and all species in order to create a sustainable eco-system for future generations. His love for nature and history brought him to the most beautiful and spectacular places of South Africa where he wants to take his tourists as well.

Food

Meals are eaten at fantastic restaurants of choice.

The following meals are included:

Breakfast
Drinks

The following drinks are included:

Alcoholic beverages

The following dietary requirement(s) are served and/or catered for:

Regular (typically includes meat and fish)
Other dietary requirements on request

If you have special dietary requirements it's a good idea to communicate it to the organiser when making a reservation

What's included

Safari tour to Addo Elephant National Park
A wild meerkat tour
Wine tasting at Groot Constantia Wine Estate
A visit to the Bartolomeu Dias Museum Complex
Plettenberg Bay dolphin excursion
Heritage Tour at the Cango Caves
A visit to a working ostrich farm
A visit to Ronnie's Sex Shop pub
Driver / guide
A professional guide at specialist venues
Transport by private vehicle
Entrance fees
National park fees
5 nights' accommodation
Breakfasts

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