Garden Route

Garden Route: Cape Town to Port Elizabeth (or vv)

Operates: / Daily 09.00 from Cape Town
Duration: / 4 days / 3 nights
Routing / Cape Town – Port Elizabeth OR Port Elizabeth – Cape Town
Includes: / Transportation, accommodation, sightseeing and entrance fees as per itinerary. Meals as indicated B=Breakfast L=Lunch D=Dinner
Highlights: / The Post Office Tree – Mossel Bay, Visit to an Ostrich Farm & Cango Caves – Sundowner Cruise – Knysna Lagoon, Tsitsikamma National Park.
Excludes: / Flights, Visas, All Items of a Personal Nature, Gratuities, Lunches
Notes: / This tour also operates in the reverse direction.
3-day Garden Route tours also available, contact us for details.
Minimum 2 Passengers
Accommodation: / Tourist class hotels – twin room

Day 1: Hermanus – Mossel Bay

Depart from Cape Town and drive eastwards via the beautiful coastal route between Gordon’s Bay and Hermanus, a seaside holiday town (Hermanus is one of the best places in the World to spot Whales from land – July to December). After lunch you drive on to Mossel Bay. Here you will visit the oldest post office in Africa, the Post Office Tree, which was also the site of the first landfall made by the Portuguese explorer Bartholomew Dias, in 1488.

Overnight: Point Hotel (or similar), Mossel Bay. (D)

Day 2: Outeniqua Mountains - Oudtshoorn

Today you travel over the Outeniqua Mountains to the Little Karoo to visit an Ostrich Farm for some unique experiences. We visit the Cango caves, regarded as one of South Africa's foremost natural wonders. The fascinating calcite caves comprises an underground wonderland of stalactites and stalagmites. Visit Oudtshoorn, also called the "Feather capital" of the world, as over ninety percent of the world's ostrich farms are found here.

Overnight: La Plume Guest House (or similar), Oudtshoorn. (BD)

Day 3: Cango Wildlife Ranch - Knysna

After breakfast you will visit the Cango Wildlife Ranch and Valley of Ancients, an “endangered species breeding facility” extraordinaire. Then depart for George and Wilderness National Park. The road skirts around the lakes with stops at scenic viewpoints, and then arrives in Knysna. The town is situated on the edge of the Knysna Lagoon; its entrance to the sea is guarded by two promontories known as the "Heads". The area also falls within a National Park proclaimed to conserve the extraordinary natural beauty of the lake-lands and adjacent indigenous forests. Knysna also offers shopping opportunities of unusual locally made art and craft, etc. That evening, join a sundowner cruise on the lagoon.

Overnight: Fish Eagle Lodge (or similar), Knysna. (BD)

Day 4: Plettenberg Bay – Tsitsikamma National Park – Port Elizabeth

Today you explore Knysna and travel further via Plettenberg Bay for a short visit. The road then traverses through magnificently scenic river valley passes. Visit the Tsitsikamma National Park (Khoisan for 'The place of much water"), which stretches more than 100 km along a wild and rocky coastline characterised by massive cliffs, narrow isolated beaches and shady indigenous forests along the river valleys. Your next stop is Storms River with the impressive Paul Sauer Bridge across the valley towering some 139 m above the river. The final part of our journey takes you past a few coastal holiday villages to Port Elizabeth, also called the 'Friendly City' for a short city tour before the tour ends. (B)

Rates are subject to Change and Exchange Fluctuations (Updated 23 August 2017)

Garden Route
Scheduled guided tour.
Min 2 pax / 4 days / 3 nights / Currency / Per Person Sharing / Single Supplement
1 Nov 16 – 31 Oct 17 / Cape Town – Port Elizabeth vv / ZAR / 10 100 / 3 880
1 Nov 17 – 31 Oct 18 / Cape Town – Port Elizabeth vv / ZAR / 11 070 / 1 015
DEPARTURES: Operates daily Cape Town – Port Elizabeth and also Port Elizabeth – Cape Town

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