Accomodation: Lodges
or Luxury Tented Camps
Transportation: Open
Roof Safari Cruisers
Duration: 3 nights
- 4 Days
Departs: Alternate
Days
Price:
Day
1: Depart from Cape
Town and drive eastwards via the beautiful
coastal route between Gordon's Bay
and Hermanus, a seaside holiday town
(Hermanus is the best place in the
World to spot Whales from land –
July to Dec). After an early lunch
we drive on to Mossel bay. Here we
visit arguably the oldest post office
in Africa, the Post Office Tree and
the site of the first landfall, made
by the Portuguese explorer Bartholomew
Dias in 1488. Overnight Mossel Bay
Day
2: We travel over
the Outeniqua Mountains to the Little
Karoo to visit an Ostrich Show Farm
for some unique experiences including
ostrich racing. A ride on a back of
an ostrich is not for the fainthearted.
We visit the Cango caves, regarded
as one of South Africa's foremost
natural wonders. The fascinating calcite
caves comprises an underground wonderland
of stalactites and stalagmites.
Visit Oudtshoorn, also called the
"Feather capital" of the
world, as over ninety percent of the
world's ostrich farms are found here.
Overnight at La Plume Guest House.
Day
3: After breakfast
we depart for George where we board
the Outeniqua Choo Tjoe Train, an
antique steam train, to Knysna, a
unique way to experience some of the
most magical views on the Garden Route
and Wilderness National Park. We skirt
around the lakes to Knysna on the
edge of the Knysna Lagoon with its
entrance to the sea guarded by two
promontories known as the "Heads".
The area also falls within a National
Park proclaimed to conserve the extraordinary
natural beauty of the lakelands and
adjacent indigenous forests. Knysna
also offers shopping opportunities
of unusual locally made art and craft,
etc. We join a sundowner cruise on
the lagoon.
Overnight in Knysna.
Day
4: We travel to Plettenberg
Bay for a short visit. Then we traverse
through magnificently scenic river
valley passes. We visit the Tsitsikamma
National Park (Khoisan for 'The place
of much water' stretching over one
hundred kilometres of wild and rocky
coastline characterized by massive
cliffs, narrow isolated beaches and
shady indigenous forests along the
river valleys. Our next stop is Storms
River with the impressive Paul Sauer
Bridge across the valley towering
some one hundred and thirty nine metres
above the river. The final part of
our journey takes us past a few coastal
holiday villages to Port Elizabeth,
also called the 'Friendly City' for
a short city tour before the tour
ends.
