There may be no other country on the planet that contains such a rich collection of worlds as South Africa, from the wild game lands of Kruger to the urbanity of Cape Town, with a taste of just about everything in between, including the fine vintages of the Wine Country.
After touring Johannesburg with award-winning guide Robin Binckes, we fly south to Plettenberg Bay and the Garden Route, a world-class coastline of forested hills, deep lagoons, and shining white beaches. Our base is The Plettenberg Hotel, a frankly fantastic chateau built on a rocky headland with breathtaking vistas of sea and mountains. Now south to Walker Bay, probably the best place in the world to watch southern right whales, and a five-star lodge set in an ancient milkwood forest in the Grootbos Private Nature Reserve. And we’ll have a night in the Wine Country’s Le Quartier Français, another great inn in an itinerary rich with great inns, before rounding out the journey with three nights at the gorgeous Cape Grace Hotel in Cape Town, perhaps Africa’s most beguiling city, wandering, touring, and gazing up at “lofty Table Mountain with its beautiful table cloth of fleecy clouds,” in the words of David Livingstone.
Then we’re off to lovely and secluded Singita Boulders, an exclusive game reserve connected to Kruger National Park. The Sabi-Kruger ecosystem boasts what is probably the continent’s most eclectic congregation of wildlife (all of the so-called Big Five are abundant, and this is surely the best place in the world to see leopards in the wild).
After touring Johannesburg with award-winning guide Robin Binckes, we fly south to Plettenberg Bay and the Garden Route, a world-class coastline of forested hills, deep lagoons, and shining white beaches. Our base is The Plettenberg Hotel, a frankly fantastic chateau built on a rocky headland with breathtaking vistas of sea and mountains. Now south to Walker Bay, probably the best place in the world to watch southern right whales, and a five-star lodge set in an ancient milkwood forest in the Grootbos Private Nature Reserve. And we’ll have a night in the Wine Country’s Le Quartier Français, another great inn in an itinerary rich with great inns, before rounding out the journey with three nights at the gorgeous Cape Grace Hotel in Cape Town, perhaps Africa’s most beguiling city, wandering, touring, and gazing up at “lofty Table Mountain with its beautiful table cloth of fleecy clouds,” in the words of David Livingstone.
Then we’re off to lovely and secluded Singita Boulders, an exclusive game reserve connected to Kruger National Park. The Sabi-Kruger ecosystem boasts what is probably the continent’s most eclectic congregation of wildlife (all of the so-called Big Five are abundant, and this is surely the best place in the world to see leopards in the wild).
Day 1: Johannesburg • Day 2: Alexandra township and Apartheid Museum • Day 3: fly to Plettenberg Bay • Day 4: Knysna and Plettenberg, the Garden Route • Day 5: Drive to Walker Bay • Day6: Walker Bay and environs • Day 7: drive to the Wine Country • Day 8: drive to Cape Town • Days 9 & 10: Cape Peninsula and Cape Point • Day 11: fly to Kruger area and Singita reserve • Days 12 & 13: safari in Singita reserve • Day 14: depart Johannesburg.
The Many Worlds of South Africa
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Departures:
14 Days
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Safari,
Touring
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14 DaysActivity Type:
Safari,
Touring
Trip Price:
- From: $11,750 Land Cost
- $1150 Internal Air
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