10 DAY FINEST OF SOUTH AFRICA

Delight in the finest of what South Africa has to offer on a wide-ranging but close exploration

Day 1: Sabi Sand Private Game Reserve

Guests are met and welcome on arrival at O R Tambo International in Johannesburg. Following which they are helped in transferring to a flight bound for the Sabi Sand Private Game Reserve and the commencement of the 10 Day Best of South Africa Tour. The game reserve is part of the Greater Kruger National Park and is widely considered as a premium private game reserve in South Africa. Visitors are met by their ranger on arrival at Sabi Sand and are helped with check-in procedures. Lunch and afforded the opportunity to recuperate and after which the first afternoon game drive is undertaken into this distinctive wilderness region. The game drives are headed by your skilled and proficient ranger who is supported by a competent tracker. All safari drives are handled from the back of open 4×4 safari vehicle.

Overnight: Lion Sands Ivory Lodge
Meals:  Dinner

Day 2: Sabi Sand Private Game Reserve

A wake-up knock on your door. Tea, coffee and ruskswill be served on the deck, followed by the game drive. Two game drives and a bush walk will bring guests close to the famous African Big Five, offering sightings of lion, leopard, buffalo, elephant and rhino. Daily bush walk takes place after breakfast and is a leisurely walk of about an hour. This is also the perfect period for birdwatchers to get a nearer look at their much-loved bird species. On the other hand, simply relax and re-energise at the Spa, beside the pool, in the library or around the lodge.

Overnight: Lion Sands Ivory Lodge
Meals:  Full Board

Day 3: Sabi Sand Private Game Reserve

When the morning game drive has been completed, visitors can unwind at the pool or make use of the spa facilities on offer at Lion Sands. Also on offer a voluntary tour to a local rural village and community centre, where visitors will come to know more about how the inhabitants earn their living. Yet again, the day will finish off with a late afternoon game drive handled of your competent and experienced ranger and tracker.

Overnight: Lion Sands Ivory Lodge
Meals:  Full Board

Day 4: Cape Town

The final last morning game drive which is followed by breakfast following which visitors are shuttle transferred to Kruger Mpumalanga Airport to flight headed for Cape Town. Visitors are met on arrival at Cape Town International Airport and are shuttle transferred to the hotel. The afternoon is spent at relaxing.

Overnight: Cape Grace
Meals:  Breakfast & Dinner

Day 5: Cape Town

The remarkable Chapman’s Peak Drive, cut into the 650m high Chapman’s Peak, the tour traverses across the Noordhoek town to the Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve. A botanic and picturesque delight, the reserve is home to numerous antelope species, as well as an abundant variety of blossoming plants and birds. The icing on the cake is bound to be the stride to the apex of Cape Point, it is said the turbulent sea waters of the Atlantic collide with the unruffle Indian Ocean.

The tour traces back to Cape Town via False Bay. Guests will make a stoppage at Boulders Beach, an appealing sheltered harbour which contains a tumble of mammoth circular rocks on a sandy shore. The rocks are perfect points for viewing the antics of the cluster of mainland-based African penguins.

Overnight: Cape Grace
Meals:  Breakfast & Dinner

Day 6: Cape Town

The day is devoted exploring one of the world’s most pleasant looking cities. Table Mountain, arguably the most famous natural landmark in Africa, is first on the agenda. From Table Mountain, one of the utmost remarkable views of the globe can be adored. We then head to the world-known Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens, which were formed when mining magnate and philanthropist Cecil John Rhodes offered the land to the people of South Africa. The gardens are house to 4 000 of the 18 000 species of flora which are exist in South Africa and produce a most extraordinary exhibition.

Overnight: Cape Grace
Meals:  Breakfast & Dinner

Day 7: Garden Route

After breakfast visitors are met at the hotel.  We voyage in a north-easterly course, criss-crossing the towns of Riversdale and Swellendam before reaching the small town of Albertinia. We visit to the House of Aloes which offers visitors an synopsis on how the gel and bitter sap drawn from the leaf of the Cape Aloe is manufactured into a variety of beauty and wellness goods. We continue through to the Mossel Bay and the town of Knysna, our overnight destination. The channel between George and Knysna is frequently termed as one of South Africa’s utmost scenic, as the motorway journeys over Wild and Sedgefield, giving you the prospect to observe some glorious views over the woodlands and sea.

Overnight: Tsala Treetop Lodge
Meals:  Breakfast & Dinner

Day 8: Garden Route

After an early breakfast, we voyage our way beyond George and trek to Oudtshoorn by traversing the Outeniqua Mountains. Oudtshoorn is a sizable and contemporary town dependent in the main on farming and the ostrich industry. We venture to a local ostrich farm and live through an ostrich race, stand on ostrich eggs and fondle baby ostrich chicks. The close Cango Caves, a natural wonder of the world, are explored. The wide-ranging tunnel systems, a quarter of which are accessible to guests, stretches for in excess of four kilometres into the limestone hills. If cheetahs are fascinating to you, a stop at the Cango Wildlife Ranch will be a gratifying experience. The ranch is one of the prominent cheetah breeding centres in South Africa. You will be permitted to gain entry into a fenced area and intermingle with and photograph a tame cheetah. We return to the overnight destination after Cango Wildlife Ranch.

Overnight: Tsala Treetop Lodge
Meals:  Breakfast & Dinner

Day 9: Garden Route

On your Garden Route tour, we stopover at the Featherbed Nature Reserve and Knysna Elephant Park. The Featherbed Nature Reserve is an immaculate portion of wonderland that incorparates one of the Knysna Heads. This magnificent portion of seashore and forestry offers attractive hiking trails and four by four routes.  It also accommodates to endangered species i.e. blue duiker, Knysna seahorse.  The Knysna Elephant Park offers guests a complete opportunity to intermingle with one of wildlife’s most incredible beast. Learn further on these grey giants from their handlers and escort them on a walk underneath the green stare of the Outeniqua Mountains – a really cherished experienced.

Overnight: Tsala Treetop Lodge
Meals:  Breakfast & Dinner

Day 10: Departure

After breakfast visitors are shuttle transferred to George Airport for a flight to Johannesburg, where visitors are met, and shuttle transferred to any site of their choice in either Johannesburg or Pretoria. Optionally, a representative of tourAfrika will help you with check in to your international flight home, and thereby concluding an exciting expedition of the finest of what South Africa has to offer.

Overnight: None
Meals:  Breakfast