Arrive in Cape Town for 3 nights,
On arrival in Cape Town, you are met by our experienced walking guide and transferred to Taj Cape Town (if 4 people or more) or Kloof Street Hotel (if only 2 people) where you stay for 3 nights. In the afternoon you head into the city for a walking (orientation) tour of the city. Welcome Dinner at The Gold Restaurant.
Cape Peninsula Walk
Today you enjoy a full day walking/sight seeing tour of the Cape Peninsula including two walks in the Cape of Good Hope National Park. You travel along the coastal road through the chic suburbs of Clifton, Camps Bay and onto the picturesque fishing community of Hout Bay. Next you enjoy a scenic drive along Chapman’s Peak as it hugs the cliffside and continue south to reach Cape Point in the Cape Peninsula National Park. Sir Francis Drake, the famous explorer, once called it “the fairest Cape that we saw in the whole circumference of the Globe.”.
Dinner is at leisure for your own account.
Circular walk from Gifkommetjie to Hoek Van Bobbejaan
Table Mountain Hike
This morning you head up Table Mountain by cable car to enjoy a scenic walk along the edge of the mountain (2 hours) to Maclear’s Beacon, the summit of Table Mountain. An early picnic lunch is enjoyed on top of Table Mountain before returning by cable car to the city.
Alternatively you can opt to hike UP Table Mountain.
The afternoon is at leisure for you to enjoy some of the sights of Cape Town. There would be sufficient time to visit Robben Island (supplemental cost) by boat. Dinner is at leisure for your own account.
Head to the Winelands for 1 night
Today we enjoy a walk through Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens and also do a part of the contour path.
Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens are one of the finest gardens in Africa, nestling on the lower slopes of Table Mountain. There are many paths winding through the gardens, where staff cultivate 6,000 of the 22,000 species of Southern African flowering plants in a setting of mountain streams, pools and rolling lawns.
Then we head to the Winelands where we enjoy a wine estate lunch, followed by some gentle touring and wine-tasting.
Dinner is at leisure for your own account.
Visit a Wine Estate for a wine tour and tasting
Alternative Walk – Kirstenbosch Gardens and the Contour Path
Continue through the Overberg for 2 nights in Hermanus
This morning you can either opt for a morning at leisure. Or keen walkers can head to the Jonkershoek Nature Reserve where we enjoy a circular walk of approx 2½ hours.
Then we continue to the Hermanus region via the scenic coastal path. We visit the Harold Porter Botanical gardens, and the penguins at Stoney Point. We enjoy a light lunch en route.
Dinner is at leisure for your own account.
Optional Walk : Coastal cliff path / whale watching (July to November only)
Morning or Full walk in Fernkloof Nature Reserve
Today you enjoy a wonderful full day walk in the Fernkloof Nature Reserve. The rest of the afternoon is at leisure with time for whale-watching in season, from the coastal path or the Old Harbour, or shopping in the interesting arts and craft shops of Hermanus. Dinner is at leisure for your own account.
Alternative Walk: Fernkloof Nature Reserve
Afternoon is at leisure
Whale-watching (when in season)
Drive to the Garden Route for overnight in Sedgefield.
Today you set off early to drive from Hermanus to Sedgefield on the Garden Route. We stop for a light lunch en route. Arriving in the early afternoon, you can enjoy a walk in the nature reserve (5km) or you may prefer to walk along the beach to Gerrickes Point. (Which option is best will depend on the tides/weather etc)
Morning boat cruise, Afternoon Robberg Nature Reserve walk
The quaint town of Knysna is set between the majestic Outeniqua Mountains and the rugged Southern Cape coastline. Built on the banks of a lagoon, the town is surrounded by indigenous forests. You enjoy a 1 to 1½ hour boat cruise on the lagoon before continuing to Robberg Nature Reserve for a picnic lunch and a stunning coastal walk. (You can choose between a very scenic 2.5 hour option. Or a much more intense 4+ hour option (fit walkers only, not afraid of heights).
Then you continue to your lodge in the Tsitiskamma region.
Alternative Walk : Full Robberg Peninsula Trail
Storms River Walk in morning
Today you head to the Tsitsikamma National Park. Established in 1964, Tsitsikamma was South Africa’s first marine reserve and extends 5.5km out to sea. The Tsitsikamma is a kaleidoscope of sheer cliffs interspersed with secluded bays and deeply gorged ravines.
Enjoy a walk to Storms River mouth (and beyond up to a viewpoint on headland).
Enjoy lunch at the Storms River before heading to the Birds of Eden aviary (or Monkeyland) in the afternoon.
Transfer to Port Elizabeth/George for onward arrangements
Today we have an early road transfer back to George Airport.
OPTIONAL - add on Safari
Continue to the Eastern Cape for 2 nights on safari
The malaria-free Big 5 private game reserve of Kariega is set in the pristine wilderness of the Kariega River Valley in the Eastern Cape, bordered by the picturesque Kariega and Bushmans Rivers.
