This eight-day safari takes in two of South Africa’s most moved areas: Cape Town and Timbavati. Start off exploring all that the Mother City has to offer, from Table Mountain to the Cape Winelands – with many culinary delights in between. Then a short journey gets you to the wild. This area is famous particularly for its spectacular big cat sightings, but opportunities extend to the Big Five.
Welcome to Cape Town! On arrival, you’ll be met and shown to your awaiting transfer vehicle and embark on a private road transfer to Cape Grace Hotel. Here you can enjoy breakfasts, the use of the hot spa area with steam room and sauna as well as luxury chauffeur transfers within a 10km radius of the City Bowl.
Wake up to enjoy a breakfast at Cape Grace before you set off on your day of discovery, exploring the Mother City as you wish. There are exhilarating outdoor adventures, incredible dining opportunities and many cultural experiences on offer in and around Cape Town. Perhaps venture out to the Cape Winelands to sample the many award-winning wines on offer in this magnificent part of the world (additional cost).
Wake up in your own time. After fuelling up with breakfast at Cape Grace, spend the day again at your leisure, exploring Cape Town and its surrounds. A highlight here is taking a tour around the Cape Peninsula, and stopping to swim with seals (additional cost).
Enjoy your breakfast and embark on a private road transfer to Cape Town International Airport for your scheduled flight to Hoedspruit Airport. You’ll then be met and transferred to Ngala Tented Camp, chic and luxurious, shaded by indigenous trees on the bank of the Timbavati River. Here you can enjoy early morning and late afternoon game drives as well as interpretive and big game-viewing bush walks.
Rise and shine! Today you can enjoy early morning and late afternoon game drives that continue after nightfall. Your professionally trained guides will ask you about your favourite wildlife and will do their best to ensure that your preferences are met, whether it is tracking a particular species or spending more time enjoying each sighting and getting to know the habits of the animals and the vegetation of the region.
Today you, if you choose, experience the thrill of tracking animals on foot, as you engage all your senses to discover a world where each sound, scent and bent blade of grass has a meaning. Led by an expertly-trained ranger and tracker team, a tracking walk offers the chance to track and view certain Big Five animals on foot. Done in such a way that the animals never know that you are there, tracking walks ensure an undisturbed natural experience of their lives, while ensuring safety, as they never feel threatened by your presence.
Once again, the day is yours to spend at your leisure and adventuring out on your game-viewing activities. Relax around the lodge, where breakfast and lunch are served, or, while away the hours poolside, sipping on your favourite beverage or unwinding with a good book. End the day off with dinner in the Boma alongside a crackling fire.
Enjoy breakfast and depart on a road transfer from Ngala Tented Camp to Hoedspruit Airport for your flight to OR Tambo International Airport, where you’ll to continue with your onward travel arrangements.
