10 Day Cape Town, Garden Route & Safari COMBO Tour
Overview
- Combination Of Free Time, Group Tour & Safari
- Departs Every Friday
- Starts in Cape Town, ends in Gqeberha
Welcome to your
Cape Town, Garden Route & Safari COMBO Tour – 10 days
One way, Cape Town to Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth)
This tour is a great combination of free time to explore Cape Town, a group adventure tour on the Garden Route, and a two-night safari in the malaria-free Eastern Cape. This tour makes great use of a limited amount of time and budget, to cover the highlights of the South African coastline between Cape Town and Gqeberha.
Tour includes:
- Cape Town airport transfer (Day 1, Friday)
- 9 nights’ accommodation (backpacker or guest house options)
- Most dinners and breakfasts (see itinerary for details)
- Services of a professional tour guide (Days 4-8)
- Transport, as described in the itinerary
- Visit to the African Penguin colony at Betties Bay
- Visit to the furthest Southern tip of Africa, Cape Agulhas
- Local wine tasting
- Klein Karoo ostrich farm tour
- Canoeing and hiking in Wilderness National Park
- Hiking in Tsitsikamma National Park
- Game viewing safari in Addo Elephant National Park
- Two-night all-inclusive safari at an Eastern Cape Private Game Reserve
- Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth) airport transfer (Day 10, Sunday)
Itinerary
Arrive in Cape Town (Friday)
Welcome to Cape Town! We will arrange a driver to meet & greet you at Cape Town International Airport, and take you to get settled into your accommodation. You have the rest of the day at leisure to shake of the jet lag, relax at your accommodation or to explore Cape Town and surrounding area on your own.
Day 1 highlights
Included meals:
None
Included activities:
Airport transfer
Approximate driving time:
+/- 30 minutes, 25 km
Overnight:
Backpackers: Never @ Home – Kloof Street or Green Point locations
Guest House: Parker Cottage or Antrim Collection
Cape Town (Saturday)
Today guests have the day at leisure to enjoy “the mother city” at their own pace. We highly recommend booking the city sightseeing bus for an overview of Cape Town, allowing you to visit highlights such as Table Mountain, Signal Hill, V&A Waterfront, or Camps Bay.
Day 2 highlights
Included meals:
Breakfast
Included activities:
None
Optional activities:
Group Cape Winelands day tour
Group Cape Peninsula day tour
Approximate driving time:
n/a
Overnight:
Backpackers: Never @ Home – Kloof Street or Green Point locations
Guest House: Parker Cottage or Antrim Collection
Cape Town (Sunday)
Today guests can have another day to explore Cape Town, or book optional day tours, such as a one-day Cape Peninsula Tour or a one-day Cape Winelands tour. Get in touch with our team if you would like to book any optional tours.
Day 3 highlights
Included meals:
Breakfast
Included activities:
None
Optional activities:
Group Cape Winelands day tour
Group Cape Peninsula day tour
Approximate driving time:
n/a
Overnight:
Backpackers: Never @ Home – Kloof Street or Green Point locations
Guest House: Parker Cottage or Antrim Collection
Cape Town - Hermanus - Cape Agulhas (Monday)
We depart from Cape Town early on Monday morning for Hermanus. We follow the scenic coastal road, stopping at Betties Bay to view a colony of endangered African penguins. You can spend the afternoon in the seaside resort town of Hermanus, famous for hundreds of Southern Right Whales during the whale season (July to November) and many shops, restaurants and markets. In the afternoon we will drive on to Cape Agulhas, the most southern tip of Africa, where we visit a viewpoint known as the “real” place where the Indian and Atlantic Oceans meet.
(Shark cage diving clients will be picked up very early in the morning by the diving operator, and will miss the first half of the day).
Day 4 highlights
Included meals:
Breakfast & dinner
Included activities:
Visit to the African penguin colony at Betties Bay
Optional activities:
Shark cage diving
Whale watching boat trip (in season, July – November)
Cycle (or e-bike) to the Southern Tip of Africa
Travel route, distance & time:
+/- 250 km +/- 3 hours
Overnight:
Cape Agulhas – Oudtshoorn (Tuesday)
We travel to Oudtshoorn in the Little Karoo, known as the Ostrich Capital of the World, via the spectacular Route 62, which is South Africa’s longest wine route. We will have a lovely lunch and wine tasting at a local winery, before checking into our accommodation, which is on a working game farm in the Little Karoo. As the sun goes down, we can enjoy a tour of the ostrich farm, taking in the views of the Outeniqua and Swartberg mountain ranges in the background.
Day 5 highlights
Included meals:
Breakfast and dinner
Included activities:
Local wine tasting
Klein Karoo ostrich farm tour
Approximate driving time:
+/- 330 km, +/- 4 hours
Overnight:
Oudtshoorn: Chandelier Game Lodge
Both backpackers and guesthouse clients stay in the same location – a working game & ostrich farm. This is a unique location, which isn’t really a backpacker or a guesthouse but we feel is a special experience. Backpackers stay in the log cabins, whilst guest house clients stay in the glamping tents.
Oudtshoorn – Knysna – Sedgefield (Wednesday)
After breakfast we head over the marvellous Outeniqua Mountain pass where we will explore Wilderness National Park with some canoes. Enjoy a paddle up the Touw River through indigenous forest, enjoying the abundance of bird life. After about 40 minutes, the canoes will be left for a 2 km hike along a boardwalk, which will take us to a lovely waterfall and rock pools. Late afternoon you can spend exploring Sedgefield, with its expansive views and beaches.
Day 6 highlights
Included meals:
Breakfast and dinner
Included activities:
Canoeing and hiking in Wilderness National Park
Approximate driving time:
+/- 145 km, +/- 2 hours
Overnight:
Sedgefield - Tsitsikamma - Addo area (Thursday)
Today, we will head to the famous town of Knysna via the lavish Lake District of the Garden Route. We will visit the Knysna Head viewpoint, for some magnificent views over the Knysna River estuary and the Indian Ocean. After Knysna, we will stop at Bloukrans Bridge to view the world’s highest bungee jump bridge (216 meters). There is plenty of time for the adventure seekers among you to test their courage. Midday will be spent in Tsitsikamma National Park with its unique combination of indigenous forest and beautiful Indian Ocean coastline. The Park has a wide choice of activities for all, including hiking, crossing a suspension bridge and swimming. In the afternoon, we will leave the Garden Route for Big 5 country, Addo.
Day 7 highlights
Included meals:
Breakfast and dinner
Included activities:
Entrance to Tsitsikamma National Park
Optional activities:
216 M Bloukrans bungee jump
Approximate driving time:
+/- 320 km, +/- 4.5 hours
Overnight:
Addo area: Avoca River Cabins
Both backpackers and guesthouse clients stay in the same location – a working citrus farm. This is a unique location, which isn’t really a backpacker or a guesthouse, but we feel is a special experience.
Addo – Private Game Reserve (Friday)
We will spend the morning exploring Addo Elephant National Park. We will spend up to 2-3 hours exploring the 28,000-hectare National reserve with approximately 600 elephant and some Cape buffalo, lion, black rhino, warthog, zebra, eland, kudu, hartebeest and many more animals. After an exciting morning of game viewing, we will arrange a transfer from Addo park to a private game reserve, where you will check in for a two-night safari.
Day 8 highlights
Included meals:
Dinner at game reserve
Included activities:
Entrance and 2-3-hour drive with tour vehicle through Addo Elephant National Park
Transfer from Addo Park to Private Game Reserve
Afternoon Game Drive on private game reserve
Optional activities:
2-hour open vehicle game drive with Addo field guide
Approximate driving time:
Transfer from Addo to Game Reserve: +/- 80 km, +/- 1 hour
(Plus game drive time in Addo Elephant National Park in the morning, and at private game reserve in the afternoon)
Overnight:
Safari on Private Game Reserve (Saturday)
Today you have a full day to enjoy on safari! A morning and an afternoon game drive is included with your package, as well as all meals and selected beverages.
Day 9 highlights
Included meals:
Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Included activities:
Morning and afternoon game drives on private game reserve
Optional activities:
Spa treatments
Approximate driving time:
Two game drives on reserve of approximately 3 hours each
Overnight:
Private Game Reserve - Gqeberha (Sunday)
Enjoy one more morning game drive, before checking out of the private game reserve. We will arrange a transfer to Port Elizabeth, where you can get connecting flights to Cape Town, Johannesburg, and onwards.
Day 10 highlights
Included meals:
Breakfast
Included activities:
Morning game drive on private game reserve
Transfer from Private Game Reserve to Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth)
Approximate driving time:
Morning game drive of approximately 3 hours
Transfer Game Reserve to Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth): +/- 80 km +/- 1 hour
Tour Map
Pricing
| TOUR PRICE per person | Low season: 25 April 2025 – 31 July 2025 | High season: 1 August 2025 – 11 December 2025 | Peak season: 12 December 2025 – 8 January 2026 | High season: 9 Jan 2026 – 23 Apr 2026 |
| Backpacker twin/double en-suite & 4-star safari | R 32820 | R 36180 | R 38620 | R 38160 |
| Backpacker single en-suite & 4-star safari | R 45840 | R 51760 | R 64540 | R 55120 |
| Guest House twin/double & 4-star superior safari | R 40300 | R 46650 | R 49790 | R 48290 |
| Guest House single & 4-star superior safari | R 58100 | R 68910 | R 85670 | R 71490 |
- Prices quoted are in South African Rand (R).
- Tour is suitable for adults between the ages of 18-65.
- Teens between the ages of 14-18 may join the tour if accompanied by an adult. Please see our private tours for children aged 13 and under.
- Adults older than 65 may be approved to join the group tour on a case-by-case basis with a signed statement of their ability to participate in the active, fast-paced, adventurous nature of the tour.
