14 nights, 4 stops — bush, cape & coast.
From Cape Town to Johannesburg, the route is built around the bush, the Cape and the coast together.
Round trip · returns to Cape Town
Arrive in Cape Town, met and transferred to your accommodation. A South African trip built only on bush misses half the country. <strong>Cape Town, the Peninsula and the Garden Route add scenery, sea, penguins, whales, fynbos and wine</strong> — a completely different register that turns a safari into a fuller, more varied journey. Pairing the two is the classic, and best, way to see the country.
Table Mountain, the Cape Peninsula, the Boulders penguins and the winelands of Stellenbosch and Franschhoek. More of the Cape — Cape Point, the beaches, the marine life and the wine country.
More of the Cape — Cape Point, the beaches, the marine life and the wine country. Transfer to Cape Town and settle in, with time to get your bearings.
Table Mountain, the Cape Peninsula, the Boulders penguins and the winelands of Stellenbosch and Franschhoek.
Transfer to MalaMala and settle in, with time to get your bearings.
Off-road drives on a vast private traverse for the Big Five, with few vehicles and the Sand River's game.
More of the river country — lion, leopard and buffalo, unhurried and exclusive.
Off-road drives on a vast private traverse for the Big Five, with few vehicles and the Sand River's game.
Transfer to Sabi Sand and settle in, with time to get your bearings.
Off-road, tracker-led drives for the world's finest leopard viewing, with the full Big Five.
Dawn and dusk drives following the cats by sign — leopard, lion and more, up close.
Transfer to Johannesburg and settle in, with time to get your bearings.
Soweto and the Apartheid Museum, and the Cradle of Humankind's fossil sites on the city's edge. More of the city — history, culture and the deep story of human origins.
More of the city — history, culture and the deep story of human origins. A safari trip can connect straight through Johannesburg without pausing. <strong>But a day here — the Apartheid Museum, Soweto, the Cradle of Humankind — frames the whole journey</strong>, grounding the wildlife in the country's history and even the origins of our species. It is the human context to the wild.
A final morning in onward — a last outing or a slow start as time allows — before the transfer onward and the journey home.
Prime bushveld safari — sparse cover, game at water, cool and clear. The Cape is wetter, but the whales are in.
Lush bush with newborns and migrants; peak, dry, sunny season for Cape Town, the coast and the winelands.
Cape Town's grand pink hotel beneath Table Mountain — a colonial-era landmark and city institution.
An exclusive cliffside villa-hotel above the Atlantic in Cape Town, art-filled and discreet.
The flagship suites at MalaMala, over the Sand River on the reserve's vast private traverse.
A legendary family-run Sabi Sand lodge — a pioneer of the leopard viewing the reserve is famous for.
Singita's flagship Sabi Sand lodge on the Sand River — a benchmark for refined safari luxury.
A strikingly modern, all-electric exclusive-use villa lodge in Sabi Sand, design-forward and private.
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