15 nights, 5 stops — bush, cape & coast.
From Cape Town to Timbavati, 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 Garden Route and settle in, with time to get your bearings.
Forests, lagoons and whale-watching coast from Knysna to Tsitsikamma along the Garden Route.
More of the route — coastal forest, marine life and the scenic drive.
Transfer to Addo and settle in, with time to get your bearings.
Game drives to the waterholes for Addo's great elephant herds, with the Big Five and no malaria risk.
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 Timbavati and settle in, with time to get your bearings.
Off-road drives across wild Greater-Kruger bush for the Big Five and the famed white lions.
More of the wild bush — lion, elephant and leopard, with fewer vehicles.
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.
Addo's iconic tented camp around a colonial manor and waterhole — the only private concession in the park.
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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