6-Days Budget Garden Route & Addo Group Tour Latest itinerary

>> At the crack of dawn on Monday morning, pick up will be from your hotel or at the airport. You'll travel to Hermanus along the picturesque coastline & stop at Betties Bay to see a colony of African penguins. Hermanus is a popular seaside resort town that hosts hundreds of Southern Right Whales from July - November. You will continue your journey towards the southernmost point of Africa, Cape Agulhas, where you will stop at the "genuine" spot where the Indian and Atlantic Oceans converge. Customers who opt to dive in shark cages will have to wake up extra early to catch the diving operator's early morning pickup, they will not have time to see Hermanus & the African Penguin Colony on Day 1.

Overnight accommodation in Agulhas or Struisbaai, dinner, and the penguin's visit are included in your package
Optional activities (prices approximate):

• Shark cage diving: R3600.
• Whale watching boat trip (in season, July - November): R1320.
• Cycle or e-bike to the Southern Tip of Africa: R300.

• Time: 8-10Hrs
• Meals: Dinner (Breakfast & lunch not included) Drinks not included

•  Accommodation: Cape Agulhas Backpackers Budget hostel located at Cape Agulhas (Highlight)

>> From Cape Agulhas you'll take the lovely Route 62, the lengthiest wine route in South Africa, to Oudtshoorn in the Little Karoo, also called the Ostrich Capital of the World. Before settling into your lodgings on a Little Karoo game farm, you will enjoy a delightful lunch and wine tasting at a nearby winery. While the sun sets, you can take a tour of the ostrich farm while gazing at the Swartberg and Outeniqua mountain ranges. Your overnight accommodation on a working game farm in the Oudtshoorn area, breakfast and dinner, and the following activities are included in your package: Local wine tasting and Klein Karoo ostrich farm tour.

• Time: 8-10Hrs
• Meals: Breakfast & dinner (Lunch not included) Drinks not included

•  Accommodation: Chandelier Game Lodge & Ostrich Show Farm Luxury lodge located in Oudtshoorn (Garden Route)

>> After breakfast, you will cross the magnificent Outeniqua Mountain Pass and go to explore Wilderness National Park with canoes. As you float up the Touw River, you will pass through native forests and see a plethora of birds. The canoes will be left after forty minutes for a two-kilometer boardwalk hike to a beautiful waterfall and rock pools. Later, you will travel to Sedgefield to enjoy the town's beautiful beach. Your overnight accommodation will be in Sedgefield, breakfast and dinner, as well as canoeing and hiking in Wilderness National Park, is included in your package.

• Time: 8-10Hrs
• Meals: Breakfast & dinner (Lunch not included) Drinks not included

•  Accommodation: Afrovibe Beach Villa Mid-range guest house located in Sedgefield (Town)

>> The Lake District on the Garden Route will be on your route today as you travel to the renowned town of Knysna. To get a bird's-eye view of the Indian Ocean and the Knysna River estuary, you will go to the Knysna Heads lookout. Your next stop will be at Bloukrans Bridge (216 meters), the highest bungee jump bridge in the world. Those who are looking for an adventure can test your mettle at your leisure. Tsitsikamma National Park, with its stunning coastline and native forest, is the perfect place to spend the middle of the day. Among the many things to do in the park are swimming, hiking, and even a suspension bridge over the Storms River. You will depart from there and leave the Garden Route for Addo, in Big Five country, in the afternoon. Your overnight accommodation will be in the Addo area. Breakfast and dinner, as well as entrance to Tsitsikamma National Park, are included in your package.
The 216 m Bloukrans bungee jump is optionally available for approximately R 1690.

• Time: 8-10Hrs
• Meals: Breakfast & dinner (Lunch not included) Drinks not included

•  Accommodation: Avoca River Cabins Mid-range self catering accommodation located less than 1hr drive from Addo Elephant NP

>> In the morning, you will go on a safari through Addo Elephant National Park. In this 28,000-hectare national reserve, you will see a wide variety of animals, including around 600 elephants, a few Cape buffalos, lions, black rhinos, warthogs, zebras, eland, kudu, hartebeests, and many more. After an exciting morning in the park, you will drive back to the heart of the Garden Route to overnight in the wilderness. Your package doesn't include any meals but does include your accommodation in the wilderness, entrance, and the 2-3-hour drive with the tour vehicle through Addo Elephant National Park.
Optionally, you can add a 2-hour open-vehicle game drive with an Addo field guide at approximately R 480.

• Time: 8-10Hrs
• Meals: Meals at own expense Drinks not included

•  Accommodation: Wilderness Beach House Budget hostel located in Wilderness (Garden Route)

>> After breakfast, you'll leave for a first stop in Mossel Bay where you will have a chance to relax on the beautiful beaches, take a hike along the Cape St. Blaize trail that runs along the cliffs that overlook the Indian Ocean, and see the world-renowned Diaz Museum complex, which commemorates the first known European exploration of the southern tip of Africa. For those seeking adrenaline rushes, there are sandboarding opportunities on South Africa's longest dune, the longest over-the-ocean zipline, and tandem skydiving from 10,000 feet. After an exciting morning, you will leave for Cape Town where you should arrive in the early evening.

Your package includes breakfast and optional activities available include:
• 10,000-foot tandem sky-dive, R 3450 (extra R1050 for video).
• Sandboarding the longest dune in South Africa, R 500.
• Ocean zipline, R 800.

• Time: 8-10Hrs
• Meals: Breakfast (Lunch & dinner not included) Drinks not included

•  Accommodation: No accommodation (End of tour)