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Departing either from Port Elizabeth or Cape Town
Brief
Description:
Visit the Mossel Bay, Little Karoo, Knysna,
Tsitsikamma forests, Plettenberg Bay, Storms river mouth,
Natures
valley, Oudtshoorn and more. Highlights: Outstanding Scenery,
Ostrich
farms, Cango Caves, Indigenous forests, Birds, Coast lines.
Day 1:
Cape Town with Table Mountain in the Back ground
Our Satour guide meets you at Cape Town International Airport with your name on our welcome board. We depart for the Garden Route and Mossel Bay via the scenic coastal route the Clarence drive.
A delightful lunch is at Swellendam.
In Mossel Bay we join board a 4x4 vehicle for a fantastic 3 hour game drive at Botlierskop Game Farm.
Lunch: Excl.
Accommodation: Selected Guest House ****BB
Supper: Excl.
Day 2:
After breakfast we visit Cape St.Blaize and its age-old lighthouse, the Maritime Museum with its Caravel of Diaz, s landing in 1488 and the famous 800-year-old Post Office Tree. Mossel Bay is a baby-fishing village with charm and pulse of its own.
800 year old Post Office Tree and statue of Diaz
set off 90km over the mountains via the 860m Robinson's Pass with its beautiful flowers, Protea & Erica, into the Little Karoo and the Ostrich Kingdom of Oudtshoorn. At an Ostrich Show Farm we and join the African Ostrich up close, touch, and hug & ride it, we come face to face with the African Ostrich, 120kg of flightless feathers.
From the Ostrich Farm we travel to the Crocodile- and Cheetah Ranch, the only Cheetah breeding station in Africa.
Also the home of the African Lion, White Tiger, Baby Cheetah, Pygmy Hippo, Wild Dog, Racoon, Puma, Jaguar, 400 Nile Crocodile, Alligator, Fox, Surrogate, Wallaby, Turtle and more. You also have the chance to touch a live Cheetah and get your photo & certificate.
Off to the majestic Swart Berg Mountains and we visit the unforgettable Cango Caves with its drip and flowstone formations.
After our exploration we continue check into our guesthouse in the mountains of the Swatberg.
Lunch: Excl.
Accommodation: Selected Guest House ****DBB
Supper: Traditional SA Cuisine Included
Day 3:
After early breakfast on to George via the 800m Outeniqua Pass. The view from the top over George through the valleys and peaks is unforgettable.
We travel the same road as the famous Outeniqua Choo Choo Steam Train along the cliff edges, tunnels and bridges past Victoria Bay, Wilderness, Sedgefield to the most picturesque town on the Garden Route - Knysna, visit the Knysna Heads, then set off on our last leg of our tour, to the Knysna Elephant Park where you can touch and feed the Knysna Elephants
In the pretty town of Plettenberg Bay we visit Monkeyland Primate Sanctuary.
This is unique in Southern Africa, all the primates are free and you get a chance to interact with nature and conquer the longest hanging bridge in Africa.
Up through Nature's Valley,
the forest with its Yellow-wood and Stinkwood trees, we enter the thick green indigenous forests with it's giants and ferns in search of the Knysna Loerie, a green parrot like bird that only lives in this very small eco wetland.
The Knysna Loerie
Up through the passes of Bobbejaans and Bloukrans with its Vervet Monkey and Chachma Baboon sitting in the roadside.
Chachma Baboons
Here we see the highest Bungi jump in he world, the Bloukrans Bridge at 216m.
216 m Bloukrans Bungi Bridge
Then on to the Tsitsikamma region this breathtaking part of South Africa, along the N2 to the Eastern Cape and Port Elizabeth Airport for on your connection flight.
The Eastern Cape...well that's in your next tour!
PLEASE NOTE: ALL ACCOMMODATION IS BASED ON LUXURY GUESTHOUSE BASIS AND CAN BE ALTERED TO SUITE YOUR TASTE
Included: All entrance fees except where it is excluded. All transfers; guides' fees; transport; accommodation bed, breakfast, portage.
Excluded are lunches & suppers, alcoholic drinks, tips and items of personal nature.
Vehicles: 5 - 21 seaters / Luxury cars, busses & coaches
RATES:
3-Day Tour
- Cape Town to Port
Elizabeth.
Tariff per person sharing:
R
7,5650 pp
