South Africa offers breathtaking and different landscapes, desert, savannah, canyon, lagoons, mountains, coasts bathed by two oceans and everywhere a flora and an extraordinary wildlife.
1° day: Johannesburg – Sabie
2° day: Sabie – Pilgrim’s Rest – Blyde River Canyon – Phalaborwa
3° day: Phalaborwa – Kruger National Park (game drive) – Hazyview
4° day: Hazyview – Kruger National Park (game drive)– Nelspruit
5° day: Nelspruit – Swaziland border – Mliwane Wildlife Sanctuary
6° day: Mliwane W.S. – Manzini market – Mkhaya Game Reserve – S.A. border – Hluhluwe
7° day: Hluhluwe – Hluhluwe Imfolozi Game Reserve – St Lucia (boat cruise)
8° day: St Lucia – Isimangaliso Wetland Park – Durban
9° day: Durban – Port Elizabeth (by flight) – Tsitsikamma National Park – Storm River village
10° day: Storm River village – Plettenberg Bay – Robberg Nature Reserve – Knysna – Mossel Bay – Witsand
11° day: Witsand – De Hoop Nature Reserve – Cape Agulhas – Gansbaai
12° day: Gansbaai (whales watching and shark cage)
13° day: Gansbaii – Hermanus – Betty’s Bay – whales route – Cape town
14° day: Cape Town – Cape Peninsula – Cape Town
15 ° day: Cape Town
16° day: Cape Town – Stellenbosh – Cape Town
Information
Mean of transport: rental car. At Jo’burg international airport there are several rental companies;
Accommodations: medium range; average expense for a double room 720 ZAR (50US$). If you choose to sleep inside Kruger NP the accommodations are more expensive;
Food: local restaurant for dinner and grocery shop at hypermarket for lunch. Average expense for dinner 180 ZAR (13US$);
Currency exchange: at Jo’burg international airport. It also possible to withdraw from ATM;
When to go: you can go all the year long but the best season for the tour we did is during the austral winter months from June to September/October;
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