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Highlights
South Africa, the “Rainbow Nation,” is a vibrant blend of cultures, landscapes, and experiences. With its rich cultural heritage, lively cities, and wildlife-filled savannahs, travellers get an unparalleled range of experiences which does not fall short of adventure.
We promise an itinerary packed with adventure, trekking and wine tasting! Join us on a unique South African adventure, featuring a trek with breathtaking views up Cape Town’s iconic Table Mountain, a thrilling ziplining experience, coastal kayaking along Cape Town’s shores. Explore the lush forests of Tsitsikamma National Park with a scenic hike, experience the thrill of black water tubing near Johannesburg, and unwind with a wine tasting tour through the region’s renowned vineyards.
And for wildlife lovers, we will get a chance to see African penguins and marine wildlife at the Cape of Good Hope. Embark on a Walking Safari in Chobe National Park (Botswana) and combine game drive with walking safari in Zambezi national Park, Zimbabwe for an unforgettable safari in its vast, untamed wilderness.
Add to that a Victoria Falls tour, and you’ve got a trip full of adventure, culture, and natural beauty. South Africa is a kaleidoscope of unforgettable experiences waiting to be explored!
**The trip starts in Cape Town and ends in Johannesburg. We are offering an optional Zimbabwe + Botswana tour which includes Victoria Falls, Zambezi National Park and Chobe National Park, straight after Johanessburg for an extension of 3 days.
PLETTENBERG BAY (SOUTH AFRICA)
The seaside town of Plettenberg Bay is a popular holiday destination situated just 2.5 hours’ drive west of Gqebertha, on the spectacular coastal Garden Route, The Portuguese explorers called it the ‘Beautiful Bay’, and it’s easy to see why – Plettenberg Bay is a picturesque, charming town with endless pristine beaches, tranquil lagoons, clean rivers, indigenous forests, and a dramatic rocky peninsula. Playground to the wealthy, beach mansions overlook the Indian Ocean, often dotted with luxury yachts, while leisure time is given over to polo and golf, among other things. However, all kinds of visitors will feel at peace here as simply swimming in the warm water on a safe beach is a great way to experience the beauty of Plettenberg Bay. Adrenaline seekers can visit Bloukrans Bridge, a 30-minute drive away, to do the highest bungee jump on earth.
VICTORIA FALLS (ZIMBABWE)
Victoria Falls is one of seven natural wonders of the world and one of the world’s most impressive waterfalls. It is set on the magnificent Zambezi River which creates the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe. These spectacular falls can be easily visited and viewed from the Zimbabwean side. Considered to be the world’s widest waterfalls, Victoria Falls measures an impressive 1708 metres in width. The small town of Victoria Falls, which lies adjacent to the waterfalls, serves as a great base from which to explore the many attractions this area of Zimbabwe has to offer. The surrounding area provides a wide range of adrenalin-filled activities for adventure lovers. Visitors can look forward to an array of wonderful activities including: scenic flights, micro lighting, white water rafting, bungee jumping, kayaking, and once-in-a-lifetime expeditions into the incredible Chobe National Park.
CHOBE NATIONAL PARK (BOTSWANA)
Full day Safari at Chobe NP is a safari experience that includes a boat cruise on the Chobe River and a game drive in Chobe National Park in Botswana. Here’s what you can expect:
-Pickup: Our guide picks you up from your hotel in Victoria Falls.
-Border crossing: Our guide helps you cross the border into Botswana.
-Boat cruise: You board a game viewing boat on the Chobe River to look for hippos, flamingos, and other aquatic birds.
-Lunch: You eat lunch at a riverfront restaurant.
-Game drive: You go on a safari vehicle for an afternoon game drive to spot elephants, lions, and other animals.
-Return: You are driven back to the border and meet your original guide.
– Cost is $200 per person (+ Botswana Visa $25)
Adventure & Wine Tasting are calling – and South Africa is the answer. You will be spoiled for choice on this perfectly paced journey that’s suitable for adventurers of all ages. This trip is an excellent choice for travelers and adventurers who are keen to experience South Africal highlights for an adventure of a lifetime.
More exciting, day-by-day information is available below in the Itinerary section.
Arrival Airport
Departure Airport
Cape Town International Airport – CPT
Johannesburg International Airport – JNB
Dates
08 – 22 September 2025
Price Includes
Requirements
Complementaries
Price Excludes
On arrival in Cape Town, you will be met by your English speaking guide who will transfer you to Premier Hotel Cape Town where you will be staying.
After your long flight, freshen up and get ready for your complimentary welcome dinner at Gold Restaurant.
It goes without saying that the heartbeat of Africa is synonymous with tribal drums. Gold’s optional pre-dinner interactive djembe drumming sessions at 18:30 every night are a fun precursor to a memorable dining experience.
Everyone can learn to drum – regardless of how rhythmically challenged you might be! Their patient, master drummers will guide you through the drumming basics and afterwards a soothing traditional handwashing ceremony precedes their amazing dish feast with live entertainment.
You will be staying at the Premier Hotel Cape Town for the next six nights.
Airport Transfers, Dinner & Drumming Session INCLUDED.
This morning you will have an early start. You will be met by your driver and transferred to the foot of the iconic Table Mountain for an early morning hike. Your experienced guide will lead you along the best trails. Along the way you will be learning about the fauna and flora, history and interesting stories of the mountain.
After you have reached the summit enjoy breath-taking views. Descend with the cable car, another experience that will leave you amazed at the beauty of our mother city.
Lunch will be in the beautiful Company Gardens. The Company’s Garden is Cape Town’s green lung. This oasis right in the center of the city is a favourite for both locals and tourists. The site is important historically and is a thriving urban space where buskers strum guitars while office workers sun themselves over lunch hour. The Company’s Garden is home to a surprising—and at times overwhelming—amount of fauna. There are the famous squirrels, who you can purchase bags of nuts to feed. There are pigeons, Egyptian geese, herons, and rodents, and there is even an aviary where dozens of species of birds can be viewed.
Your late afternoon will comprise of an amazing activity where you have the opportunity to sea kayak. See some of Cape Town’s most iconic landmarks, including Table Mountain, Robben Island and the majestic Twelve Apostles Mountain Range.
You’ll paddle through time as we pass well-known shipwrecks like the RMS Athens, SS South African Seafarer, SS Thermopylae and De Schip – don’t forget to ask your guides about them.
You may also encounter a marine mammal or two, such as our acrobatic and much-loved endemic Heaviside’s dolphins, Cape fur seals, southern right whales, humpback whales and Bryde’s whales. Sometimes, we are lucky and see ocean sunfish – Mola mola – due to the abundance of their favourites fare: jellyfish, zooplankton, crustaceans and algae. On rare occasions, we see orcas and Cape clawless otters.
The beauty of kayaking is: you never know what you’ll see when setting off on an ocean safari. It’s best to have no expectations, then every sighting is a welcome surprise!
Take an evening stroll and visit the bustling V&A Waterfront for a variety of restaurants.
Transfers, Breakfast, Table Mountain Hike & Cable Car, Sea Kayaking INCLUDED.
This morning after breakfast, you will be met by your guide and enjoy a full day Cape Point Tour.
Drink in the Cape Town’s magnificent coastline, fynbos-covered mountains and indigenous wildlife on this scenic adventure. Climb the iconic lighthouse at Cape Point, get up close and personal with penguins at Boulder’s Beach and admire rare breath-taking beauty of the small coastal towns
Itinerary Includes:
After a lovely day of touring, you will be dropped off at the Hotel. Dinner will be at the Promenade Restaurant at the Premier Hotel.
Transfers, Cape Point Tour, Penguin Beach, Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner INCLUDED.
After breakfast you will be collected by you driver and transferred to the Atlantis sand dunes. Your instructor will teach you the basics of sandboarding before you start zipping down and along the faces of the 5 to 6 story dunes.
Following this adrenaline filled activity it is time to slow down the pace and head towards the beautiful mountains of Paarl. Here you will find the Spice Route Destination Passport experience.
Under the beautiful trees and lush grass there are a selection of 5 standard tastings waiting for you.
The scenery of the surrounding areas is really spectacular. Relax on the grass or enjoy shopping in the glass shop, also located on site. Head back to the hotel and freshen up.
Free evening. Our suggestion is to visit one of the following restaurants in Bree Street, one of the busy and charismatic streets in Cape Town. Each restaurant offers a different type of cuisine and we are sure you will find something that fits your taste buds.
Transfers, Breakfast, Sandboarding Experience, Spice Route Destination Food & Wine Tasting Experience INCLUDED.
Enjoy an early morning breakfast before getting ready for another exciting day.
You will be transferred to Grabouw for an amazing Ziplining experience.
After a safety briefing and kitting up at the reception area, guests will be transported by 4×4 vehicle high into the mountain range. Two guides will accompany each small group, ensuring strict safety standards all the while providing an enlightening and educational experience, providing interesting facts about the nature and geology of this interesting area. Slide along steel cables from platform to platform, taking you past waterfalls and through valleys, enjoying all that Mother Nature has to offer. With 13 platforms and slides up to 300m long, both nature and adventure enthusiasts will be sure to come back for more! After a short walk back to the vehicle, they transport you back down to base.
Follow the road that leads to Hermanus, a beautiful picturesque coastal town. Here you will find an abundance of local shops and restaurants. There are hiking trails all along the coast that will provide you with an opportunity to do land based whale watching. Remember you binoculars. October is whaling season with lots of sightings along the trails.
An optional extra would be to experience shark cage diving at Gansbaai ( a 45min drive from Hermanus)
Breakfast, Transfers, Ziplining Experience INCLUDED.
This morning after breakfast, your driver-guide will meet you at the hotel and transfer you to Stellenbosch and Babylonstoren wine farm.
Included in your visit to Babylonstoren is a tour of their garden. Enjoy 7 x wines in their tasting room. Relax and experience the world class wines that this farm produces – Adjacent to the tasting room is the free to experience museum entrance, for The Story of Wine. The space is a celebration of man’s ingenuity and the earth’s generosity, and the cultural events that have shaped our collective winemaking and wine drinking heritage. It details the origins, cultivation and culture behind mankind’s love affair with wine, while encouraging a contemporary narrative of its age-old traditions and social gravitas.
Drink in both the stunning views and world-renowned wines in the breathtakingly beautiful Winelands region.
Continue your wine tasting experience at:
Transfer back to the hotel for an evening at leisure.
Breakfast, Transfers, 3x Wine Tastings INCLUDED.
This morning, after an early breakfast, check-out and transfer to Plettenberg Bay in the heart of the Garden Route. The Garden Route is one of South Africa’s most popular and interesting stretches of coastline, a temperate landscape of sandy beaches, indigenous forests, rocky shores and quaint towns where you can do everything from savour fresh oysters to watch southern right whales at play.
Check-in at the Bay View Hotel where you will be staying for 3 nights.
Visit Robberg Nature Reserve for a late afternoon hike while watching the sunset at this amazing place.
Transfers, Breakfast, Robberg Nature Reserve Hike INCLUDED.
This morning after breakfast, transfer to the Tsitsikamma National Park and also Knysna Forrest to enjoy a forest hike to the coast.
Tsitsikamma National Park and also Knysna Forrest offers visitors the opportunity to connect with the sights and sounds of nature. The reserve is a national monument and World Heritage Site. Here, visitors can spot animals which include the Western Cape’s smallest antelope and the rare blue duiker. Activities visitors can enjoy, include swimming, hiking, walks, bird watching, angling, and picnicking as well as whale and dolphin watching. Visitors also have the opportunity of viewing the Cape Seal Lighthouse, the highest navigational light in South Africa, reaching 146 meters above sea level.
Dinner is for your own account and your evening at leisure.
Transfers, Breakfast, Tsitsikamma Natures Valley Coastel Hike INCLUDED.
After a lovely morning breakfast, prepare for another day of hiking the Natures Valley Coastal Hike
Today you will explore the coastal trail which promises to include beautiful ocean vistas and sightings of marine life.
Evening at leisure.
Transfers, Breakfast, Tsitsikamma Natures Valley Coastel Hike INCLUDED.
Today starts with an exciting day of black water tubing.
This guided trip includes a 20-minute scenic forest drive from Storms River Village to the drop-off and pick-up point in the old Storms River Pass. At the river edge, you receive your tube and they take you for a short upstream paddle to a sandy beach where you sling our tube over uour shoulder and walk a further 200m to the next calm pool.
Jump onto your Stand Up Paddle Boards (SUP) and paddle approximately 800m further to an 8m optional cliff jump. Don’t worry, they will demonstrate first and if you’re up for it, you’re welcome to take the leap. Whilst the brave hearts are leaping those that want to take the day a little easier are kept entertained with activities like SUP handstands, tube balancing and swimming.
A well-earned chocolate bar marks the turn-around point at the Jump site and you paddle back to where your tubes were left at River’s edge. From here they now take you on a spectacular round route downstream, tubing pool hop back to the low water bridge where you started.
The Green Route forest experience entails 1.5 fun-filled hours of mild activity in exquisite Tsitsikamma scenery.
Freshen up and drive to George Airport for your scheduled flight to Johannesburg.
Upon arrival in Johannesburg, transfer to Premier Hotel OR Tambo where you will stay for one night.
Breakfast, Transfers, Black Water Tubing Adventure, Domestic flight to Johannesburg INCLUDED.
After breakfast, check out and transfer to Johannesburg airport for your flight to Victoria Falls. On your arrival, check in at Bayete Guest Lodge. Freshen up after lunch.
Depart on a sunset cruise on the Zambezi.
Overnight at Bayete Guest Lodge for three nights.
Airport Transfers, Breakfast, Sunset Cruise on Zambezi INCLUDED.
After breakfast, prepare for a morning walking safari.
Venturing into the unfenced 57 000 hectare (250 sq mile) Zambezi National Park, this walk is combined with a game drive to a suitable walking area of the park. Whilst following in the footsteps of elephants, guests are able to learn about a variety of aspects of the wildlife in the area, as the Professional Guide shares his/her knowledge and experiences with them. As they walk along scenic trails, participants have the opportunity to encounter a diverse array of wildlife, from majestic elephants and graceful giraffes to elusive antelopes and colorful bird species. The walking safari provides a unique opportunity to connect with nature on a deeper level, as participants learn about the flora, fauna, and ecosystems of the Victoria Falls region.
A lovely additional activity to your day could be canoeing on the Zambezi.
Dinner will be an experience you will never forget. Dusty Road is a traditional Zimbabwean restaurant situated in the bustling heart of Chinotimba, the largest and oldest township in Victoria Falls just 2 km from the centre of the city. Step inside a welcoming and thriving home and experience the vibrancy of the community, as local vendors sell their wares, while enticing smells waft across from the charcoal fires and your eyes are treated to bright, inventive regional creations recycled with a heavy dose of African humour and ingenuity. Dusty Road Township Experience’s food is cooked the Zimbabwean way: on open fires and in cast iron pots and ovens, giving guests an authentic, wholesome and tasty food experience. The Dusty Road style is cheerful, earthy, funky and full of soul, with a true purpose at its core.
Transfers, Breakfast, Dusty Road Dinner Experience, Walking Safari in Zambezi national Park INCLUDED.
Enjoy breakfast before heading out to any excursions of your choosing (at an additional cost) which may include:
-White River Rafting
-Devils Pool Visit in Zambia
-Village Tour
-Helicopter flights
Another option is a full day safari tour in Botswana:
Full day Safari at Chobe NP is a safari experience that includes a boat cruise on the Chobe River and a game drive in Chobe National Park in Botswana. Here’s what you can expect:
-Pickup: Our guide picks you up from your hotel in Victoria Falls.
-Border crossing: Our guide helps you cross the border into Botswana.
-Boat cruise: You board a game viewing boat on the Chobe River to look for hippos, flamingos, and other aquatic birds.
-Lunch: You eat lunch at a riverfront restaurant.
-Game drive: You go on a safari vehicle for an afternoon game drive to spot elephants, lions, and other animals.
-Return: You are driven back to the border and meet your original guide.
– Cost is $200 per person (+ Botswana Visa $25)
Even though you are getting ready to check-out after breakfast, you have one more amazing experience waiting for you.
The Tour of the Falls in Victoria Falls offers visitors a mesmerizing journey into the heart of one of the world’s most spectacular natural wonders. Guided by knowledgeable experts, participants embark on a scenic exploration of the iconic Victoria Falls, marveling at the sheer power and grandeur of the cascading waters as they thunder over towering cliffs into the chasm below. Along the way, visitors are treated to breathtaking viewpoints that offer panoramic vistas of the falls, allowing for unforgettable photo opportunities and moments of awe-inspired reflection.
Transfer to the airport for your international flight back home.
Breakfast, Airport transfers, Tour of the Falls Experience INCLUDED.
Yes, Day 11 – Day 14 are optional and can be chosen as an extra over and above the South Africa package.
The Victoria Falls (Zimbabwe) optional part requires 2 flights to and from Victoria Falls Airport, plus it will include a day trip into Botswana for a full day game drive in Chobe NP.
€1000 which will include two internal flights plus Victoria falls (Zimbabwe) and Chobe National Park (Botswana)
The trekking level for this trip is beginner. Even for a first-timer, the treks in this itinerary are achievable if you make proper preparation prior to departure. This is all doable for an average- fit person.
Mountain and forest treks are not paved and likely to get rough, rocky, and gravel-strewn most of the time.
You don’t need to be a hardcore trekker or an athlete, that’s for sure. If you’re already an avid trekker, this should not be much of a challenge for you. The fitter you are, the higher your chances of success. Even for a first-timer, this trek is achievable if you make proper preparation prior to departure.
September is a lovely time to visit South Africa for heat and sunshine. The average temperature is 19°C. You can look forward to at least 12 hours of sunshine a day, giving you plenty of time to sightsee and relax.
The weather in Cape Town in September marks the onset of spring, as it gradually gets warmer and sunny and rainy days mix. This month, average daytime temperatures range from 13°C to 20°C (55°F to 68°F), providing a comfortable climate for outdoor activities and exploration.
Yes, ofcourse. As long as you are in Cape Town on the trip dates, you are free to arrive / leave whenever you want. It is best to let us know your plans so we can organize transfers accordingly.
Every traveller is required to have a travel insurance package which covers trekking and extreme adventure like sandboarding, ziplining, and river tubing. This is an absolute must for any of our trips.
Throughout the trip, you will be staying in hand- picked Western style resorts which range between 3-4 star.
PREMIER HOTEL CAPE TOWN | CAPE TOWN (or similar)
BAYVIEW HOTEL | PLETTENBERG BAY (or similar)
PREMIER HOTEL OR TAMBO | JOHANNESBURG (or similar)
BAYETE GUEST LODGE | VICTORIA FALLS (ZIMBABWE) (or similar)
September is Spring in South Africa. Weather will be mild and sunny, with very comfortable temperatures around 15-20 degrees.
Pack a mix of cool, light, comfortable clothes and some warm clothes for the evenings. Raincoat or waterproof outer shall is always great to have, as well as sun protection (Hat, sunglasses and sunblock).
As per WHO suggestions, make sure you are up-to-date on all routine vaccines such as flu, tetanus, chickenpox and measles. All eligible travellers should be up to date with their COVID-19 vaccines. It is recommended to have all shots of Hep A & Hep B, rabies and typhoid.
Should you feel uncomfortable with any of the included activities in the itinerary, by all means you are free to pass and enjoy the surrounding area with leisure while the group returns back.
For example, if you are scared of heights, you may chose to pass the Ziplining, and if you are not a good swimmer, you may choose to pass the open- water sea kayaking.
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If you cancel your booking, we will offer a refund of any balance which we have not yet paid or are obliged to pay to any other Third Party. When a booking is cancelled within the month prior to departure, the remaining balance will be non refundable as well as we would be fully committed at that stage. All types of travel insurance are supposed to cover “cancellations” and for this reason we require that such travel insurance is purchased prior to travel.
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