Wedding & Honeymoon
in
South Africa
Eco Afrika Tours are experts at facilitating weddings in Africa. By working together with one of our online consultants we can help you plan your wedding! We work closely with the safari lodges and hotels to ensure that catering, menus, flowers, table settings, minister, reception, entertainment and cakes are all organised. We also put you in touch with the local magistrates who perform the wedding ceremony. Here are a few sample destinations where we can organise your wedding.
You can expect anything to happen in Africa !!
Intimate, exotic, memorable - everything a honeymoon should be.
The two tours are only an example of our tours that we design around the needs of the client.
It would be hard to find a better place than South Africa for your ideal honeymoon. Whatever your desire - the privacy of a Bushveld camp, beaches devoid of footprints or crowds, luxury and pampering a the foot of Table Mountain or the peace of the Cape Winelands.
South Africa has it all.
Pre- and Post-touring arrangements for you and your guests
For an unforgettable African honeymoon getaway: try Africa's golden beaches, tropical islands and secluded, wilderness regions
A unique Southern African honeymoon that will take you effortlessly from wild bushveld to magnificent beaches to spectacular mountain scenery - whatever your heart desires.
Where is South Africa
Where is the Garden Route?
Two Fabulous Tours to choose from
1."African Romance 14 days" (Ex Cape Town)
2."Wild Instincts 12 days" (Ex Johannesburg)
Tour 1
Tour Itinerary
International Flights: Dublin to Cape Town (return)
Domestic Flights: Port Elizabeth - Cape Town (SAA)
Day 1:-
Our African Romance begins in Cape Town, the Mother City of South Africa first started in 1652 by Jan van Riebeeck. From the airport, we check into our hotel, the Raddison, This elegant hotel offers newlyweds luxury accommodation with breathtaking views of Table Mountain and the harbour.
Then we set off 1,087 meters up on top of the famous Table Mountain by means of the cable car. (Weather permitting - otherwise we divert to the V&A Waterfront) Looking out over our President - Nelson Mandela's old prison on Robin Island and the entire Cape Town, Clifton, Bantry Bay, Blouberg Strand and up and down the coast as far as the eye can see.
From there, we will undertake an orientation tour of Cape Town including the Castle of Good Hope; Malay Quarter; Company Gardens ETC.
At sunset we board the Schooner and sail Table Bay with Champagne and a perfect sunset.
Lunch: Excl
Accommodation: Radisson Seafront Hotel *****
Supper: Excluded
Day 2:-
Next morning after a full South African Breakfast we take a walk to freedom and visit Robben Island where Nelson Mandela spent 27 years of his life.
In the afternoon we visit the South African National Botanical Gardens, Kirstenbosch and the famous Victoria & Alfred Waterfront.
Lunch: Excl
Accommodation: Raddison Seafront Hotel *****
Supper: Mama Afrika African Restaurant, Excluded
Day 3:-
Today we do a peninsula tour along the Western Boulevard through Bantry Bay, Clifton with it's hillside condos for the rich and famous, past the quaint little fishing village of Hout Bay where we take a trip on a boat out to sea to see the seals on Seal Island.
Down to Muizenburg and SimonsTown to Boulders with its Jack-ass penguin colony.
On to Cape Point, the "Tip of Africa", along the breathtakingly beautiful mountains and its road inspectors, the Cape Blue Monkey and Baboon and onto the Cape Point Nature Reserve where the Atlantic and the Indian Oceans meet.
Back via the Cape Flats, village of Somerset
West, to Stellenbosch where we overnight on a wine farm.
Here in the Wine Country of South Africa. Here you will palate the most delicate bouquets of some of South Africa's best wines, Sherries and ports.
Lunch: Excl
Accommodation: Cathbert Country House DBB
Supper: Traditional SA BBQ - Included
Day 4:-
After breakfast we do a walking tour of Stellenbosch, then on to Delheim and Muratie for wine tasting, then to Franshoek. The French Huguenot monument on to Villiersdorp, where we visit the unforgettable Kelkie Wyn Wine Cellars and the picturesque Theewaterkloof Dam.
Then down to the coast via Botrivier and we check in at our accommodation in the small fishing village of Hermanus (The Whale Capitol of the World). We visit the Old Harbour
We leave Hermanus, through Gansbaai, back to the main road we pass through Swellendam with it's tremendous White Cape Dutch Architecture. We enjoy lunch at Zandrift Restaurant then on to Mossel Bay.
Accommodation: Bay Lodge BB
Supper: Excluded
Day 5 :-
With it's temperate climate we take an unforgettable trip on a sailing ship and visit the Seal Island.
Then we travel up over the mountains of the Robinsons Pass into a different world, warm, arid, dry but covered in fascinating vegetation, the occasional Springbok and the Ostrich. We travel to the heart of the Little Karoo Wine Country, Oudtshoorn, centre of the Ostrich Kingdom. We do some shopping and set off to an Ostrich Show Farm where you can see, feel, touch, sit on and ride one.
A delightful lunch is served on the terrace with Red Wine, Ostrich Steak, Roast Potatoes and Salad. Then we travel to the Crocodile- and Cheetah Farm.
We relax and watch the sun set from our guest house in the mountains.
Accommodation: De Poort Guest House ****DBB
Supper: Traditional SA Cuisine - Included
Day 6
After breakfast we tackle the famous Cango Caves and explore every piece of it's clammy splendour.
Today we head onto George via the 800m Outeniqua Pass, Dolphin's Point. Wilderness, then we head through Sedgefield to the most picturesque town on the Garden Route - Knysna.
We do a sundowner cruise on the lagoon.
Lunch: Excl
Accommodation: Augusta Bay ***** BB
Supper: JJ's Waterfront Restaurant with Traditional Xhosa choir - Excluded
Day 7 - (The wedding is a day away)
Today we you spend at leisure in Knysna with a driver/guide at your disposal for shopping and last minute arrangements.
Check List:
Lunch: Excl
Accommodation: Augusta Bay BB
Supper: Excluded
Day 8 - (The Wedding Day)
The big day has arrived and breakfast is served for the other guests at 8 am. For the bride and groom special late rooms service breakfast will be served.
The wedding ceremony takes place at Hunters Country House in their Chapel and the reception in the Lodge
Church ceremony : 4pm; Reception: 6 pm. The bride & groom depart on their with their own private driver/guide to Tsala Treetop Lodge.
Lunch: Excl
Accommodation: Augusta Bay BB
Supper: Excluded
Day 9
Bride & Groom: Exclusive getaway hotel in the trees - Tsala Tree Top Lodge - Plettenberg Bay
Bridal Party: Next morning we board the Outeniqua steam train to George.
Our guide will pick you up in George. We head back to Knysna we spent the afternoon in the arts and crafts markets of Knysna.
We catch the sun going down over the lagoon from our open-air tables at the Knysna Oyster Farm. With a gentle semi sweet white wine flowing we sample the night life of Knysna.
Lunch: Excl
Accommodation: Brenton on Sea Hotel BB
Supper: Excluded
Day 10
Bride & Groom: Exclusive getaway hotel in the trees - Tsala Tree Top Lodge - Plettenberg Bay
Bridal Party: After breakfast we engage with local black township folk on a township tour.
Then rest of the day is set aside for adventure. We visit the Knysna African Elephants.
We undertake a dolphin/whale tour on the ocean (weather permitting), visit Monkeyland the primate sanctuary.
Lunch: Excl
Accommodation: Augusta Bay BB
Supper: Excluded
Day 11
Bride & Groom: Exclusive getaway resort in the forest - Tsitsikamma Lodge
Bridal Party: Day 12 we head up through Plettenberg Bay, Nature's Valley we enter the thick green indigenous forests with it's Yellow Wood giants and ferns. Up through the passes of Bobbejaans and Storms River Bridge and Bloukrans where you could take a 216-meter bungi jump (excluded).
We head along to the Tsitsikamma National Park with its unspoiled beauty, hikes, nature, and peace.
We have 3 options:
After our adventure we continue through to our safari in the Eastern Cape
Bride & Groom: Exclusive safari Lodge - Schotia Lion Reserve
Bridal Party: Zuurberg Mountain Lodge
Lunch: Excl
Accommodation: Zuurberg Mountain Inn DBB
Supper: South African open-air BBQ - Included
Day 12
Bride & Groom: Exclusive safari Lodge - Shamwari Game Reserve - Tented Camp
Bridal Party: Morning we visit Addo Elephant Park where we go on open vehicle 4x4 safari to see these Giants of the African Bush in action. 54,000ha of African Bush with 346 giants lurking in the shadows.
Then in the afternoon off to Scotia Lion Ranch and a night safari where the lions of the Eastern Cape are abundant together with buck, wildebeest, zebra, springbok, Kudu and Eland. We do an open vehicle game drive into the night where we face African Lion with only a spotlight at 20 yards away.
If luck is on our side we might see a real lion kill if they are hungry. After a experience you will never forget in your whole life we sit down in our open air Lapa with a Traditional "Potjie" BBQ, with crocodiles, lions, wild pig and antelope just the other side of the Lapa.
We overnight at our lodge.
Accommodation: Zuurberg Mountain Inn DBB
Supper: South African open-air BBQ - Included
Day 13
Bride & Groom & Bridal Party: Exclusive Mountain Lodge - Intaba
Lunch: Incl
Supper: Included
Day 14
Here we spend time sunbathing and swimming and tanning just like the South Africans do until its time to say goodbye and we get you safely to the Airport for your connection flight home.
Package Includes
Package Does Not Include
Rates:
Bride & groom R 48,970 pp
Wedding Party per person sharing: R 22,950.00
Single Supplement R 3950.00
Wedding Cost R 65,550
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