16 Days: Safari + Cape Town + Rovos Rail + Pretoria + Victoria Falls Package

Your flight from Johannesburg to Hoedspruit will take approximately one hour. You will be met by a representative of Kapama Lodge for your transfer to the Lodge.

Game Drives

Enjoy early morning and late afternoon game drives in open safari vehicles. Accompanied by a skilled ranger and tracker, you can expect to encounter a diverse range of animal and bird species. Since this is a Big Five reserve, encountering lion, leopard, elephant, rhino and buffalo is possible over a two-day safari.

While seeing big game is always exhilarating, there are many other smaller species that are also captivating, and birding enthusiasts will be delighted at the approximately 350 species of bird recorded on the reserve. Throughout the day, it’s likely you will see wildlife such as nyala antelope, Vervet monkeys or even a few of the Big Five.

Bush Walks

Experience the African bush on foot under the guidance of a skilled ranger. Your guide will point out medicinal plants, insects and birdlife along the way, and share traditional tracking skills such as using animal footprints and scat to identify animals.

This truly memorable, authentic and intimate encounter with nature and wildlife.

Kapama Lodge will transfer you back to the Hoedspruit Airport for your scheduled 2 1/2 hour flight to Cape Town where you will be met for your transfer to the Taj Hotel.

You will be staying at the 5 Star Taj Hotel in Cape Town on a bed and breakfast basis.

This morning you will be collected for a half-day private guided Cape Town City & Table Mountain tour. 

To get a feel of the thriving centre of the Mother City, sheltered by Table Mountain, the Cape Town city tour is not to be missed. On this tour you will ascend to Table Mountain, visit many of the Cape’s top attractions, including the Castle of Good Hope, the colourful cottages of the Bo-Kaap, the bustling Green Market Square, the South African Museum, the beautiful Company’s Gardens and plenty more. With an experienced and knowledgeable guide, and from the comfort of an air-conditioned vehicle, you will be able to learn more about Cape Town and its surrounds.

This morning you will be collected for a full-day private guided Cape Winelands Tour.

The Cape Winelands Tour is a great introduction to the South African Winelands. Stellenbosch and Paarl make up the two largest wine growing districts in South Africa and are pivotal to any Cape Winelands Tour. Franschhoek brings with it the feel of Europe with its beautiful mountain views and small producers. Not only does a Winelands tour take in the crisp white and classic French-style red wines, fantastic cheeses and olives that the area is famous for, but it also gives you a chance to savour a stunning wealth of natural beauty. Explore vast estates as we take you along the Cape Winelands’ principal route through Paarl, Stellenbosch and Franschhoek. Relax in the shade of giant oak trees and towering mountains overlooking lush valleys. 

This morning you will be collected for a full-day private guided Cape Point and Peninsula Tour.

The full day Peninsula Tour will take you around the entire Cape Peninsula to the Cape of Good Hope showing you the wonders along the scenic route.

Pristine beaches, spectacular sight of Cape Point,  land based penguin colony, Skywalk at Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens. - these are just some of the highlights along the way.

Enjoy a full day at leisure.

14h30 Transfer from your hotel to the Cape Town Railway Station
16h00 Depart from Cape TownStation. Trundle through the winelands of the Western Cape towards Worcester.
16h30 Tea in the lounge and observation cars.
19h30 Dinner is served in the dining cars as the train climbs ±750m up the face of the escarpment. Dress: Formal. Around midnight, the train arrives at the first of four tunnels on the pass. The last tunnel is 13.5km long so guests are to be careful when walking through the train.

07h00 Breakfast is served in the dining cars until 10h00.
08h00 Disembark at Matjiesfontein for an opportunity to stroll through the historic village. Of special interest is the museum on the platform and a collection of historic cars and railway carriages to the right of the Lord Milner Hotel.
10h00 The train travels through the Karoo, a vast semi-desert region that was once an enormous inland sea. It is said that over millions of years, volcanic matter was ground down and deposited as silt upon the seabed to form what geologists call the Karoosystem.
13h00 Lunch is served in the dining cars.
16h30 Tea in the lounge and observation cars.
19h30 Dinner is served in the dining cars. Overnight on board. Dress: Formal

07h00 Breakfast is served in the dining cars until 08h30.
08h30 Enjoy a tour of Kimberley’s Diamond Mine Museum and the Big Hole. Capital of the Northern Cape, Kimberley is well known for the discovery of diamonds that led to its establishment in 1871.
12h00 Lunch is served as the train travels northeast towards Klerksdorp and the broad grassland plains of the Highveld.
16h30 Tea in the lounge and observation cars.
19h30 Dinner is served in the dining cars. Overnight on board. Dress: Formal

07h00 Breakfast is served in the dining cars until 09h30. 
10h00 The train arrives at Rovos Rail Station, Pretoria.

You will be met by our representative for your private transfer to the Castello Di Monte Boutique Hotel.

The Tuscan style estate portrays pure elegance and offers spectacular views of the hills in and around the capital city. The landscaped gardens with mature olive trees and lavender bushes give an Italian flavour to the African landscape.You will hardly notice that you are in the middle of a bustling city.

After breakfast your personal guide will take you on a full day guided private tour of Soweto and the Apartheid's Museum.

Discover Soweto and the surrounding area, driving past well known landmarks such as Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, Orlando Power Station, Nelson Mandela’s old house, Desmond Tutu’s House, the Hector Pieterson Memorial with a quick stop at a shebeen. Afterwards head to the Apartheid Museum and spend a couple of hours exploring the museum and discovering the history of the Apartheid era.

Private transfer to the OR Tambo International Airport (JNB) in time for your flight to Victoria Falls. Upon arrival you will be met for your private transfer to the Victoria Falls Safari Club where you will be staying for the next two nights. Your stay will be in a Club Room.  Victoria Falls Safari Lodge is located on a plateau overlooking a waterhole which attracts a variety of wildlife including elephant, buffalo, kudu, waterbuck, impala as well as a large number of bird species. Game may be seen at the waterhole from the lodge’s viewing deck, pool deck or over drinks or a meal at the Buffalo Bar and MaKuwa-Kuwa Restaurant.

 Your stay at the Victoria Falls Safari Club includes the following services:

• Local brand drinks - beer, house wine, soft drinks and bottled water 
• An in-room beverage station including a mini bar re-stocked daily with beer, house wine, soft drinks, bottled water and a Nespresso machine
• Afternoon tea and pastries (15:30 - 16:30)
• Sundowner cocktails and canapés (17:30 - 18:30)
• Access to edutainment presentations on the resort which occur at least 3 times a week – Monday, Wednesday and Friday (e.g. The Life of David Livingstone talk and other topics) starting from 09:30 (duration approximately 45 minutes)
• Same day laundry service
• A 15-minute head and shoulder or foot massage on the Club viewing deck (15:30 – 16:30) (subject to availability of Spa staff)
• Hourly courtesy shuttle to Victoria Falls Rainforest and the town centre
• Complimentary Wi-fi

Later in the afternoon you will be taken to enjoy a Sundowner Cruise on the Signature Deck of the Zambezi Explorer or the Zambezi Royal boat. Transfers are arranged with a shuttle bus and are not private.

After the boat cruise and your return to the hotel an a la carte dinner is served at the MaKuwa-Kuwa Restaurant.

After breakfast you will join a guided sight-seeing tour (shared) of the Victoria Falls. It is advised to take a rain coat to protect against sporadic water spray (can also be hired on location). You will be back in time for lunch at the Makuwa-Kuwa Restaurant to view the spectacular arrival of hundreds of Vultures swooping down for their daily feed on leftover meat scraps and bones from the on-site restaurants in front of Victoria Falls Safari Lodge. Guests have the opportunity to spot white headed vultures, hooded vultures, lappet faced vultures and white backed vultures. The supplementary feeding program aids the survival of these remarkable, but endangered birds. 

Enjoy the afternoon at your leisure. There are many more adventures and tours that can be booked locally at the hotel's travel desk.

In the evening a short shuttle transfer will take you to the Boma for a cultural dinner with entertainment.

Breakfast at the hotel. Private transfer to the airport for your flight to Johannesburg.

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