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6-Day Garden Route Tour

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Activity Schedule

  • When does it run?

    Selected Mondays 

  • Duration

    6 days, 5 nights

  • Start time

    Pick ups between 7am to 8am, depending on the location.  

  • Meeting Point

    Good news! You can get picked up from selected hotels in City Centre, Green Point or Sea Point, just give us the details at the time of booking. Don’t worry if you have not booked your hotel yet, our customer service executives will get in touch and confirm the details.

  • Ending Point

    Port Elizabeth Hotel / Port Elizabeth Airport

Key Highlights

  • See some of the loveliest landscapes in Africa
  • Fabulous photo-opportunities around every corner
  • Enjoy a wine tasting along the famous Route 62
  • Explore the spectacular Outeniqua Pass
  • Visit Plettenberg Bay – jewel of The Garden Route
  • 5 nights’ accommodation and all breakfasts included

Overview

Discover the glories of South Africa’s famed Garden Route on this magical trip from Cape Town. The Garden Route is so called because it runs through a lush landscape of thick woodland and fragrant bush along the Western Cape coastline – a marked contrast to the dry grasslands of so much of Africa.

This delightful 6-day tour takes you beneath towering mountains, along rocky coasts, past forest and fynbos (bush), lakes and lagoons, and breathtakingly beautiful bays and beaches.

Against this scenic backdrop you’ll enjoy special treats such as historic architecture, spectacular caverns, wine-tasting and wonderful wildlife.

From Cape Town travel to Oudtshoorn, center of the world’s ostrich farming industry. Admire the coastlines of Knysna and Tsitsikamma and stop at lovely Plettenberg Bay. Marvel at Bloukrans Bridge, the highest single span arch bridge in the world and the location for a dizzyingly high bungy jump.

Your tour ends at Port Elizabeth – the “friendly city” – and you may find yourself making a solemn promise to return to this gorgeous part of the world as soon as possible!

Itinerary

Day 1: Cape Town – Mossel Bay

This morning you will be met by your local tour guide and depart for the scenic Garden Route. Travel along Sir Lowry’s Pass, with its magnificent views, to Grabouw and Elgin, a lush landscape surrounded by majestic mountains. Our journey continues to Cape Agulhas, the southernmost tip of Africa, where the Atlantic and Indian Oceans meet. The area has largely been untouched and unexplored with its rugged coastline being the graveyard for many a ship. The historic Cape Agulhas Lighthouse is considered the icon that signifies the tip of Africa.

After this thrilling experience, we continue via historic Swellendam, the third oldest town in South Africa, to Mossel Bay, from where the Garden Route extends to the Storms River in the east.

Overnight in Mossel Bay.

Day 2: Mossel Bay – Oudtshoorn

After breakfast, we continue our journey to Oudtshoorn, the ostrich capital of the world and home to the spectacular limestone caverns of the Cango Caves. Visit an Ostrich Farm for a guided tour. Enjoy a wine tasting at a local wine estate before setting off on a tour of the Cango Caves, one of the world’s great natural wonders, sculpted by nature through the ages.

Overnight in Oudtshoorn. [Breakfast & Dinner]

Day 3: Oudtshoorn – Knysna

After breakfast, travel over the Outeniqua Pass to George, the sixth oldest town in South Africa, with many historical landmarks like the Slave Tree and King Edward VII Library building; said to be the best example of Edwardian architecture in the town. The tour travels via Wilderness, an attractive holiday resort to Knysna, known as the oyster box of South Africa, nestling on the banks of a beautiful lagoon in the heart of the Garden Route. Enjoy a lagoon cruise to the Featherbed Nature Reserve (weather permitting), where you can take a trailer ride to the top of the Western Head to enjoy panoramic views of the town and lagoon, returning for lunch. The afternoon is at leisure to further explore this charming town set around a natural harbour lagoon.

Overnight in Knysna. [Breakfast & Lunch]

Day 4: Knysna

Today you’ll have the opportunity to explore the natural beauty of the Knysna area. Your journey will include a visit to the Garden of Eden, set in the lush, green, indigenous Knysna forest. The major attraction is the forest itself, beautiful yellowwood trees, thick green foliage and streams. Afterwards, you’ll have the opportunity to visit Monkeyland Primate Sanctuary, where you will be able to see a variety of primates, roaming free in the forest. The sanctuary is well known for its efforts to rehabilitate and free previously caged primates. The tour continues to the famous Eastern Head, where you will enjoy spectacular views of the Knysna Heads (weather permitting). Afterwards, you’ll travel to Brenton on Sea, a breath-taking holiday location and a nature lover’s paradise with its unspoilt beaches and peaceful surroundings. The remainder of the afternoon will be at leisure.

Overnight in Knysna. [Breakfast]

Day 5: Knysna – Tsitsikamma

Travel to Plettenberg Bay, the jewel of the Garden Route, before visiting Birds of Eden sanctuary, the biggest single free flight aviary in the world. The sanctuary was developed to create a safe environment in which to release a large collection of free-flight African birds. Our journey continues to Bloukrans Bridge, the highest single span arch bridge in the world, currently offering the highest commercially operated Bungy Jump in the world. Visit the Tsitsikamma National Park and Storms River Mouth (weather permitting). The Tsitsikamma National Park incorporates 80 km of rocky coastline with spectacular sea and landscapes, a remote mountainous region with secluded valleys covered in mountain Fynbos and temperate high forests with deep river gorges leading down to the sea.

Overnight in the Tsitsikamma area. [Breakfast]

Day 6: Tsitsikamma – Port Elizabeth

Head eastwards along the Tsitsikamma Forest to Port Elizabeth, known as the “friendly city” with a wonderful climate. Enjoy a city orientation tour of Port Elizabeth, where the tour ends on arrival.

Guests may disembark, on request, at Port Elizabeth Airport. [Breakfast]

Inclusions

  • Hotel pick-up and drop off
  • Transportation in an air-conditioned vehicle
  • 5 nights’ accommodation on twin-share basis
  • English speaking guide
  • 5 breakfasts, 1 lunch, 1 dinner
  • Wine tasting en-route to Oudtshoorn
  • Entrance to Cango Caves
  • Admission to Featherbed Nature Reserve
  • Admission to Tsitsikamma National Park
  • Porterage
  • Sightseeing as specified

Exclusions

  • Additional drinks and meals

Please note

Voucher Information: Sorry, but we will need you to print a paper version of your booking voucher (we're working on changing this ). At this time no refund can be given for customers without a printed copy of their voucher.

You will be travelling in an air-conditioned vehicle with a professional guide providing a fantastic quality holiday experience.

This activity is adults (and older children) only. Little ones under the age of 8 years will have to sit this one out, we’re afraid.

All departures are in English.

Our supplier needs at least 2 people on the tour to be able to go ahead.

Accommodation is on a twin-share basis.

There is also a single supplement rate which will apply should you have a third person travelling.

Additional info

If you need any assistance or have a query, you may call at the telephone numbers provided in your confirmation voucher or our customer service desk.

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