Garden Rout

9 days / 8 nights

tour price on request



Africa welcomes you, dear friends!

After border formalities you will be met by a representative of the company Alpha-Zulu, transfer to your hotel and have free time for rest. You can visit the Queen Victoria and Prince Alfred Waterfront, which is a tourist Mecca. There you will find a variety of cafes and restaurants, expensive shops and souvenir stalls, folk singers and dancers acting directly on the street, seals resting on the shore of the Atlantic Ocean that caresses the eyes with its blue waves...

After a delicious and hearty breakfast you will meet your guide for excursions in and around Cape Town. Table Mountain, the symbol of the city, will be the starting point of your excursion. You will go up to the mountain in the cable car (payment is made on the spot, for whether it operates depends on the weather) and from the top you will have a bird’s eye view of this unforgettable city. After that you will visit the Cape Town Castle of Good Hope, which was the first stone structure on the peninsula, and from there you will see the Grand Parade, dominated by the Town Hall building. Continuing the journey, you will visit the Company’s Gardens built at the time of Jan van Riebeeck, founder of Cape Town. You can buy peanuts to feed the squirrels, who will eat from your hand. Next to the Gardens you will see St. George’s church, famous for having the largest stained-glass windows in the Southern hemisphere. Nearby are also the Houses of Parliament and the National Gallery of art. A tour of a jewelry factory will help you understand the process of cutting of precious stones and you can touch diamonds of various sizes and learn useful information about jewelry. If you like, you can purchase jewelry at factory prices direct from the manufacturer.

Today you will relive the days of the discoverers and of the colonial conquests and you will spend the day on Cape of Good Hope, which you have heard about in school. In 1488 Portuguese navigator Bartolomeu Dias landed on the Cape and called it the Cape of Storms, because he had survived a terrible storm that nearly cost him and his crew their lives. Portuguese King João II, having great expectations for a new Eastern sea route, renamed it the Cape of Good Hope. Here tourists often look forward to seeing large families of baboons. These animals are very cute, but be careful not to feed them, for you might get hurt when they fight for their food. After passing the entrance gate your bus will follow a level road and then drive down to the famous promontory. Here you can make a souvenir photo against a panel that has the coordinates of the Cape of Good Hope. Then you can climb to the highest point of the Cape Peninsula, where you will enjoy the extraordinary beauty of the ocean and the bay. We now say goodbye to the Cape and we are on our way back. The road runs along the coast of False Bay and goes through the small town of Simon’s Town, near which the largest South African naval base and Boulders Beach are situated. On that beach you will meet the famous Cape penguins. Long ago, these wonderful animals chose this beach for hatching their offspring and now they live there year-round, delighting local and foreign tourists. You will stop for lunch (at your own expense) at a restaurant well known for its seafood recipes. Return to the hotel around 17h00-18h00

Free day for optional excursions such as:

  • Travel to wine farms to taste the famous South African wines and brandies, as well as cheese and chocolate.
  • Great White Shark Cage diving; a video can be ordered, showing your immersion. A light lunch is included.
  • Seal Cruise and a visit to the beautiful Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens

After breakfast, your tour guide is waiting for you for a new journey; the final destination is a private game reserve. Your guide will take you to your 4 lodge. After a short rest you will enjoy an unforgettable safari, where will you set out to find the African Big Five (elephant, rhino, buffalo, lion, and leopard). Do not forget to get your cameras ready! A well-trained professional ranger will do everything possible to find the animals and bring you as close as possible to them.

The day begins with a morning safari. You will rise very early and with a professional huntsman you will drive to a forest park searching for animals. Upon return to the lodge, you will enjoy a gourmet breakfast. Sorry to say goodbye to the Wildlife Park, but your guide will meet you and bring you to a comfortable vehicle. From this moment begins an unforgettable journey through the “Garden Route “! Your next stop is the ostrich capital of the world, the town of Oudtshoorn. Lunch at the Ostrich Farm (at your own expense). You will get a chance to ride on an ostrich. Visit the leopard nursery and take a picture with these wonderful “cats “and get a good dose of adrenaline.

A leisurely breakfast on the farm, including scrambled ostrich eggs-It is difficult to picture that the contents of one ostrich egg is equal that of 24 chicken eggs. After breakfast the road leads you to the famous Cango caves, after which you will continue the journey to Tsitsikamma forest, where you can jump with from the highest commercial bungee jumping point, stroll along the suspension bridge or ride on a boat to the mouth of the river Storm, watching scenery of unique beauty. You will observe monkeys in the Park "Monkey Land" and in the evening you will arrive at the "Oyster Capital”, Knysna, and accommodation at a hotel. When the weather is nice, you can also book a boat cruise ride across the lagoon and watch the unique African sunset with a glass of champagne. Dinner in one of the many restaurants in Knysna, where it is a must to taste the delicious fresh oysters (own expense)

After breakfast, continue with your journey on the “Garden Route”. When the weather is nice, you can relax on the famous beaches of Plettenberg Bay.

Breakfast and transfer to George airport for flight to the next destination of your program.

what is included:

Included:

  • Accommodation in hotels of 4 B&B, lunch at the Cape of Good Hope
  • The lodge FB
  • Excursions и Transfers with guide
  • The necessary tickets
  • Departures on Safari in an open jeep, with English-speaking Bushrangers

Not included:

  • Tickets GRJ–JNB
  • Visas
  • Insurance
  • Tip tour guides, drivers, restaurants
  • Porterage
  • Additional excursions and transfers
  • Drinks