Luxury Garden Route Journey from Cape Town

After pickup between 7 and 8 am from your Cape Town or Stellenbosch hotel, (see recommended list), you’ll travel in a comfortable vehicle to our first stop at a Wine Estate where we will have a taste of premium wine ranges. Completing this appetizer we drive for approximately five hours to the town of Mossel Bay where we visit the Bartolomeu Dias museum complex to see the famous 500 year old Post Office Tree, the life-size replica of the Dias Caravel, the Shell Museum & Aquarium and Ethno-Botanical Garden. Now off to the town of Wilderness, where you will overnight at the 5-star Views Boutique Hotel & Spa. The lounge is the perfect place to laze or sip sundowners, spot dolphins & whales or watch spectacular sunsets. Also winner of the Les Nouvelle Esthetiques Award for Best Boutique Spa.

After breakfast you drive through the town of Knysna and view the famous Heads from the viewpoint. You then go to the town of Plettenberg Bay, where you can take a boat ride for an Eco Adventure excursion of 1,5 hours at Ocean Blue Adventures. Depending on the season you can see dolphins, whales, etc. Alternative activities are available if weather doesn't permit like a tree canopy zipline tour. You go to the Storms River Suspension Bridge that hangs over the red-brown waters of the Storms River Mouth, it spans 77 metres and remains one of the most popular tourist attractions of the Tsitsikamma National Park. The walk is well worth the magnificent views. Birds accompany walkers along the way and there are a number of lookout point and places to have a seat and rest, while enjoying the vistas of the turquoise ocean. A short drive takes us to the ±1000-year-old Big Tree in the Tsitsikama forest. From here we go to overnight at the 4-star On the Beach Guesthouse and Suites in Jeffreys Bay, located on the sun-drenched shores of the beautiful Eastern Cape offering a relaxed and refined atmosphere in which to enjoy the spectacular setting right on the beach in Jeffrey’s Bay. Have dinner at De Viswijf, situated on the beachfront of the in Jeffreys Bay. An extensive menu comprising of seafood, beef, poultry, traditional local dishes and several exotic dishes. Their extensive wine list includes wines from numerous South African wine estates and regions that are made to satisfy and tantalize your palate.

You have an early morning start for a day trip to Addo Elephant National Park, the third largest national park in South Africa. Home to elephants, lions, buffalo, black rhino, spotted hyena, leopard, a variety of antelope and zebra species, this park host the largest remaining population of wild elephants on the planet. You’ll enjoy a safari and get the opportunity to see buffalo and other big animals. We via Jeffrey’s Bay on our return in the afternoon to one of the world's most famous surf spots, or just relax on the beach. Overnight is at On the Beach Guesthouse and Suites in Jeffreys Bay.

After breakfast, you’ll travel approximately four hours on the famous Route 62 to get to Oudtshoorn for a Heritage Tour at the Cango Caves. Located in a limestone ridge parallel to the picturesque Swartberg Mountains, the caves include over 2.5 miles (4 km) of drip stone caverns with vast halls and towering formations of stalactites and stalagmites. You’ll walk through some of this subterranean wonderland with your guide on a 1-hour tour of the caves. From here we go to an Ostrich Farm where the largest fowl in the world can be studied. We drive to our 4-star overnight farm at De Zeekoe, which is surrounded by the Swartberg and Outeniqua mountains, and one of the world’s 17 “hot spots” with 3 overlapping flower zones, which is located between the lush green Garden Route and the wide-open spaces of the Klein (Little) Karoo with the Outeniqua and Swartberg mountain ranges as backdrop.

Take take part in a Wild meerkat tour which offers you the unique opportunity to see these animals that are part of the shy 5 in their natural environment. Meerkats are part of the so-called Shy 5 which also includes the bat-eared fox, the aardvark, porcupine and aardwolf. Depending on the time of year, breakfast follows before or after the tour and then return to Cape Town along Route 62, the world's longest wine route. You’ll pass through breath-taking scenery and have plenty of rest stops. Also to be visited is Ronnie's Sex Shop which had visitors from all over the world, judging by the graffiti on its wall. More stops for wine tasting can be arranged if time allows before reaching Cape Town to end your tour.