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Family Safari, Meerkats & Cape Town Adventure

From £2,795 per adult

This self-drive family itinerary visits the very best of South Africa’s Eastern Cape and Garden Route, staying in top family-orientated properties along the way. You begin your family adventure with an exciting safari at Kwandwe Game Reserve, an award-winning and malaria-free game-viewing location. Continue to Tsitsikamma and the Plettenberg Bay area where there is a host of exciting outdoor activities to suit all tastes and interests. Route 62 then takes you inland to see Meerkats near Oudtshoorn, before completing the trip with time to explore Cape Town and the Franschhoek area of the Winelands. This itinerary can work all year round.

Itinerary

On this trip you will visit:

Camps Bay
Cape Town
Eastern Cape
Franschhoek
Montagu & Swellendam
Oudtshoorn
Private Game Reserves
The Garden Route
Tsitsikamma
Whales & Winelands

Day 1

Check in for your direct overnight from London Heathrow to Johannesburg.

Days 2 - 3

Kwandwe Game Reserve

On arrival transfer to your onward flight to Port Elizabeth, where you collect your hire car and drive about 2 hours to Kwandwe Game Reserve. Stay 2 nights at Kwandwe Uplands House, with all meals, local drinks and game drives included.

Days 4 - 5

Tsitsikamma Forest

After a morning game activity and a delicious breakfast, take the coast road, passing through St Francis Bay, and along the spectacular Garden Route to the Tsitsikamma Forest , close to Plettenberg Bay, where you are based for 2 nights at Hog Hollow Villa. Here you have your own butler/assistant who can arrange meals for you in the villa or you are welcome to eat at the main lodge. From here you can explore the renowned beaches of Keurboomstrand and Plettenberg Bay, visit the nearby elephant sanctuary and Monkeyland, as well as enjoy a host of other family-orientated activities to suit all ages. Breakfast included.

Days 6 - 7

Oudtshoorn

Depart after a sumptuous breakfast – the food at Hog Hollow is truly delicious and plentiful - and drive for about 1½ hours to the Oudtshoorn area, where you stay for 2 nights in a lakeside cabin or superior rooms at De Zeekoe Guest Farm. Breakfast is included. Here you can go on the popular meerkat tour (weather dependent and suitable for children over 10) which involves an early 5am start, but well worth it to watch these wonderful creatures in their natural habitat.

Day 8

Route 62 & Swellendam

Continue along Route 62 via Barrydale to Swellendam for about 2 hours (timings depend how often you stop along the way, but there is no rush), where you overnight at the historic Jan Harmsgat Country House, known for its fresh farm food. Breakfast included.

Day 9

Cape Town

Depart on a 4-hour road trip to Cape Town where the famous Table Mountain is an almost constant companion, visible for miles as it rises up out of the ocean setting. In Cape Town you stay in a 2-bedroom suite at Place on the Bay, in fashionable Camps Bay. There is a pool on the property and the famous white sands of Camps Bay beach is a short walk over the Victoria Road.

Days 10 - 12

There is so much to do in Cape Town, you’ll need to plan your time carefully to ensure you can fit in everything on your ‘must-see’ list. We can help you do this ahead of time. Many activities can be arranged once you are there but trips to Robben Island for example should be pre-booked.

Days 13 - 14

Winelands

Leaving Cape Town behind you, travel about 1 hour into the heart of the Winelands, where a true farmland experience in one of the oldest Cape Dutch farms in the Franschhoek area awaits – newly converted Babylonstoren is owned and managed by a former editor of South Africa’s Elle Decoration. Stay in a 2-bedroom cottage, where breakfast, dinner, laundry, mini bar, a private guided garden tour, cycling, canoeing and free access to the gardens and orchards are all included.

Day 15

After a leisurely last day at Babylonstoren, drive to Cape Town airport for your return overnight flight to London, arriving back at Heathrow early the following morning.

Price guides 2013/2014

From £2,795 per adult, For travel May-Sep 12, child from £2200 (Total for family of 4, from £9990)

From £3,290 per adult, For travel Oct-Dec 12, child from £2750 (Total for family of 4, from £12,080)

Price is based on a family of 2 adults and 2 children under the age of 12, international flights from London Heathrow, comprehensive car hire (Group K vehicle which is a Hyundai IX35 or similar), breakfast throughout, activities and all meals at Kwandwe.

Excludes: visa fees, drinks, activities, entrance fees, fuel, additional driver fee, car hire admin fee payable directly, car hire security deposit taken from credit card, meals other than specified.

Flight supplements apply over peak season.

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Babylonstoren

Franschhoek, South Africa

Babylonstoren only opened its doors in December 2010, but this beautifully restored Cape Dutch farm, owned and managed by the ex-editor of South Africa’s Elle Decoration, is already creating quite a stir. Situated on the...

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Hog Hollow Country Lodge

Tsitsikamma , South Africa

Hog Hollow Country Lodge scores top marks for location, hospitality, style, service and food – quite an accolade! Set in a private nature reserve on the edge of the Tsitsikamma Forest, the attractive rooms have breathtaking...

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Jan Harmsgat Country House

Montagu & Swellendam, South Africa

Jan Harmsgat Country House enjoys an enviable location in a beautiful valley between Swellendam and Ashton in the Klein Karoo. Jan Harmsgat is a historic farm, first established in 1723, and the guest house is in what were the...

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Kwandwe Game Reserve

Private Game Reserves, South Africa

Kwandwe Game Reserve is an award-winning reserve on the lush banks of the Great Fish River and offers malaria-free game viewing and luxury accommodation. Kwandwe (meaning ‘place of the Blue crane’ in Xhosa) is vast:...

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Place on the Bay

Camps Bay, South Africa

Place on the Bay is a good quality apartment hotel in a brilliant location right opposite the beach in Camps Bay. Most of the apartments have balconies overlooking the ocean and make a wonderful place to sunbathe during the day...

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