Traverse the road less travelled on this city and Garden Route Tour. With an endless coastline flanked by rolling mountain ranges dotted by forests and valleys punctuated with rivers and charming towns, the Garden Route is undoubtedly one of the most picturesque routes in South Africa. 

This stunning and verdant stretch running along the Indian Ocean between Heidelberg and Storms River is South Africa’s N2 at its best, making it an awesome destination for your holiday. Numerous Blue Flag status beaches dot the coastline whereas the Outeniqua and Tsitsikamma mountain ranges running parallel to them are overgrown with lush forests and fynbos plains. 

This gorgeous part of the world is rich in nature and hiking trails, excellent surf for beach bums in the temperate Indian Ocean waters, bountiful waters to entice the keen angler, and idyllic coastal towns.

• Cape Peninsula & Penguin Colony Tour in Cape Town
• Table Mountain & City Tour in Cape Town
• Cango Caves & Ostrich Farm Safari Tour in Oudtshoorn
• Featherbed Eco Experience by Ferry in Knysna
• Tsitsikamma National Park Visit

On arrival at Cape Town International Airport, you will proceed to a COVID-19 screening before passing through customs and collecting your luggage. After passing through the arrivals terminal your guide will meet you with a signage board. The guide will assist you with your luggage and disinfect all bags before loading, thereafter temperature checks will be done and hands sanitized before you are able to enter the vehicle for the transfer to your hotel.                                                                                        

Depending on what time you arrive you have the option of doing the Robben Island Tour (tickets will be for your own account). The Hotel is a short walk to the Nelson Mandela Gateway, but the hotel also offers a complimentary shuttle service between the hotel and Waterfront. There are currently tours that runs as follows; 09h00, 11h00, 13h00, and 15h00. The ferries depart from the Nelson Mandela Gateway at the V & A Waterfront. The tour takes 3.5 hours including the ferry trip to and from the Island (Depending on the boat used as they have different travel times).

Dinner (optional) can be enjoyed at the in-house restaurant, or at the V&A Waterfront.

Overnight: Cape Town

This Morning after breakfast you will depart the hotel for your Full Day Peninsula Tour.

Bring your camera; we’re headed for Cape Point at the south western tip of the Cape Peninsula, and the most spectacular views in the world. The drive there is just as inspiring, passing steep mountains’, secluded coves and sweeping beaches, as well as villages and fishing communities.

Our tour begins with a scenic drive along the Atlantic coast, passing through the cosmopolitan suburb of Sea Point and Camps Bay with its glorious views of the Twelve Apostles, part of the Table Mountain range. We’ll continue to the fishing village of Hout Bay, one of Cape Town’s best-kept secrets.

Here there is an option to take a short boat trip to Seal Island (for own account & if time permits) to view the Cape Fur Seals, which inhabit the island. From here we travel to the Cape Point Nature Reserve, comprising over 17,300 acres of indigenous fauna and flora. Here we can see a variety of wildlife that includes baboons, Reebok, Cape Mountain zebra, bontebok and the elusive eland. The reserve is also one of the world’s largest breeding grounds for tortoises. Bird-watchers too will find many fine species to observe.

The majestic coastline offers drama worthy of being called ’Nature’s Greatest Show’. We’ll be able to see the union of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans (as per legend) and may even feel the brisk wind that is dubbed the ’Cape Doctor’ for its presumed curative powers. Following the coastline along False Bay, we’ll return to Cape Town by way of Simon’s Town, where we visit the Penguin colony at Boulders Beach and Fish Hoek fishing village. Before our return, we’ll stop at Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens for a short walking tour of the beautiful gardens. We return to Cape Town, passing the University of Cape Town, Rhodes Memorial and the Groote Schuur Hospital.

Tour Duration: 08:30-17:00

Dinner (optional) can be enjoyed at the in-house restaurant, or at one of Cape Town’s award-winning restaurants.                                                         

Overnight: Hotel in Cape Town

Meal: Breakfast

This morning after breakfast you will depart your hotel for your Half Day Table Mountain & City Tour 

Our drive to the city center takes us historical famous landmarks such as the Castle of Good Hope built in 1666 by the Dutch East India Company and City Hall, a baroque building and the Grand Parade. As we follow the city’s main thoroughfare, Adderley Street, we will see St. George’s Cathedral, the Anglican Diocese of Nobel Peace Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu. We will pass the Company Gardens and the Malay Quarter that is also known as the Bo-Kaap which means ’Above Cape’ because of its location up against the slopes of Table Mountain. In the early 18th century, thousands of slaves from Java, Ceylon and other Far Eastern regions were brought to Cape Town. After slavery was abolished, their descendants, known as the Cape Malay’s, settled here. Continue to join a sparkling tour, witness the art of diamond cutting and the careful craftsmanship of jewellery manufacturing by skilled experts. Discover the history of the Diamond and Gold Trade in South Africa.

You will be offered the option of continuing to Table Mountain, where you can ascend to the top (if weather permit and own account for cable car) by the revolving cable car. Here, you’ll see wildflowers, the famous silver tree and marvel at a birds-eye view of the city and its beaches. On a clear day it is even possible to see Robben Island where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned on one side and Cape Point on the other.

Tour Duration: 08:30-13:00

Dinner (optional) can be enjoyed at the in-house restaurant, or at one on Cape Town’s award-winning restaurants.   

Overnight: Hotel in Cape Town

Meal: Breakfast

After a leisurely breakfast and check out, you will enjoy a scenic drive to Oudtshoorn at 08:30 am a lunch stop will be made along the way (lunch for your own account).

Inland from the Cape’s famous Garden Route, over breathtakingly beautiful mountain passes magnificent red rocks and the wide-open spaces of the Klein Karoo, you’ll find Oudtshoorn – once known internationally as the ostrich capital of the world. Royalty, emperors, maharajas, and high society once adorned themselves with the world’s finest feathers.

On arrival you will check - in and spend the rest of your afternoon relaxing on the estate.

Dinner will be served at the hotel.

Overnight: Hotel in Oudtshoorn

Meal: Breakfast

After breakfast, you will check out of your hotel and enjoy a tour of the Cango Caves.

The Cango Caves are some of the largest limestone caverns in the world and are still only partially explored. There are guided tours starting at 9am and then every hour on the hour until 4 pm. In order to conserve the caves, they have strict limits on tour numbers. So, we recommend that you book ahead, especially during the school holidays. Please wear trainers and cool clothing as it gets very humid in the Cango caves.

After your lunch (for you own account) you will make your way to the Ostrich Farm, no visit to Oudtshoorn is complete without a visit to the Ostrich Farm.

Safari Ostrich Farm is a working ostrich farm. Everything about them is focused on you having a wonderful interactive encounter and learning something new about the world’s largest bird. Enjoy a fun-filled, interactive ostrich farm experience. Take a ride on the only Ostrich Tractor Safari in South Africa to view the Kenyan (Massai) ostrich, Zimbabwean Blue, and South African Ostriches. Go into the chick-rearing compartment and view chicks in various stages of development.

After the tour, you will depart Oudtshoorn and travel to Knysna. Check-In and spend the rest of your day at leisure.

Tour Duration: 08:30-14:00

Dinner (optional) can be enjoyed at the hotel or at one of the restaurants on the Knysna Waterfront.                                                                                

Overnight: Hotel in Knysna

Meal: Breakfast

After breakfast, you will depart the hotel for your Featherbed Eco Experience at 09:30 for four hours. 

The Featherbed Nature Reserve, situated on the Western Head in Knysna, is the premier eco-experience on the Garden Route and is accessible by ferry only. The services featured are a 4x4 vehicle and trailer drive up the headland onto the reserve, a specialist guide giving information on fauna and flora, optional guided 2.2km walk through coastal forest and fynbos into ancient sea caves as well as buffet lunch at an outdoor restaurant setting under a canopy of Milkwood trees.

In order to protect the splendor 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.

After your Featherbed Eco Experience, you will be able to enjoy some time on the Knysna Waterfront.

Dinner (optional) can be enjoyed at the hotel or at one of the many beautiful locations within Knysna.                                                                                

Overnight: Hotel in Knysna

Meal: Breakfast

After breakfast, you will depart the hotel at 08:30 and enjoy a scenic drive to Port Elizabeth via Tsitsikamma National Park. Tsitsikamma National Park is a multi-dimensional destination with dramatic coastal scenery, reefs, rivers, lush forest, and delicate Fynbos. A hiking and water sports paradise, this region forms the top section of the magnificent Garden Route National Park.

In Tsitsikamma National Park, Garden Route, South Africa visitors will see booming breakers of the Indian Ocean relentlessly pound rocky shores, temperate high forest, and Fynbos (indigenous plants) rolling down to the sea in an unspoilt verdant carpet. Age-old rivers carve their way to the sea and wonderful marine creatures swim along the shore.

The boundary of the Tsitsikamma National Park, South Africa stretches some 5km (3 miles) out to sea, protecting a wonderland of inter-tidal life, reef, and deep-sea fish. Beautiful Dolphins play and surf in the breakers. The Southern Right Whale visits these waters in season, coming inshore to breed. The park has two rest camps, one at Storms River mouth and one at Natures Valley.

Check - In and enjoy the rest of the day at leisure.

Dinner (optional) can be enjoyed at the hotel or at one of the beautiful venues in Port Elizabeth Town.                                                                             

Overnight: Hotel in Port Elizabeth

Meal: Breakfast

After breakfast and check out you will be transferred to Port Elizabeth Airport for your onward flight (flight to depart before 12) 

Meal: Breakfast