DAY 1 | ARRIVE IN CAPE TOWN 

Meet your private guide at The Queen Victoria Boutique Hotel on Cape Town’s cosmopolitan Waterfront at 2pm. Enjoy a welcome orientation and overview of your exciting 5 days ahead.

After settling in your guide will take you on a fascinating City Tour of Cape Town’s most interesting sights where you’ll get a great understanding of the city, the South African culture, and the country’s colorful and storied past.

End the day with sunset drinks and dinner at one of Cape Town’s best and most loved restaurants.

DAY 2 | TABLE MOUNTAIN & COOKING COURSE 

After breakfast, meet your guide and embark on a morning up Table Mountain! Choose to hike up one of the many challenging routes, or take the cable car if you’re not feeling energetic. At the top, explore the exquisite views, the trails, and the endemic fauna and flora found only on Table Mountain. Enjoy a coffee or hot chocolate before making your way down again via cable car.

At lunch time you’ll parktake in a fun and informative Cape Malay cooking course with a local lady in the comfort of her home in the colorful Bo-Kaap (the Cape Malay Quarter). Learn about the Cape Malay history and how the traditional food has played such an important role in the history and culture of Cape Town and her people.

Enjoy a relaxed evening at your leisure.

DAY 3 | CAPE POINT, BOULDER’S BEACH & KALK BAY

After breakfast, enjoy a breathtakingly scenic drive along Chapman’s Peak Drive and along the Cape Peninsula to Cape Point Nature Reserve. Explore the point with its crashing waves and hostile conditions before heading to Boulder’s Beach to see Africa’s only penguin colony.

Enjoy a delicious, laidback seafood lunch in the seaside town of Kalk Bay as you watch seals frolic in the chilly ocean beside you! Grab an ice cream and take a stroll through the quaint village of Kalk Bay before heading back to your hotel for a relaxed evening.

DAY 4 | KIRSTENBOSCH GARDENS & CONSTANTIA WINELANDS 

After breakfast you’ll head to the world-renowned Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens set against the lush and leafy side of Table Mountain. Kirstenbosch is the world’s best example of the Cape region’s endemic “fynbos” and it’s a kaleidoscope of fascinating color and birdlife.

Make your way to another beautiful location down the road – Groot Constantia (South Africa’s oldest wine estate), which is home to exceptional grounds and gorgeous views over the Cape Flats all the way to False Bay. Here you’ll learn about the estate’s wines, its history and heritage before enjoying a delicious wine tasting followed by an exceptional lunch in the spacious grounds under their towering, ancient oak trees.

Embark on a fun kayak tour from Granger Bay in the late afternoon before having some much-needed down time at your hotel. Join your guide for a fantastic dinner at one of Cape Town’s best and most loved restaurants.

DAY 5 | CAPE TOWN TO KRUGER

After breakfast, pack up and head to the airport for your direct flight to Hoedpsruit town – the gateway to the Kruger National Park! Set within South Africa’s largest, and one of the world’s most well-known game reserves, Ngala Private Game Reserve offers not only one of the most incredible Big Five wildlife experiences in the world, but also offers an intimate safari due to their exclusive access to 36,000 acres of true African wilderness.

Your daily safaris are led by expert trained ranger and tracker teams, that ensure sensitive off-roading practices to allow close-up game sightings of elephant, buffalo, rhino, lion, leopard, spotted hyena, giraffe and much more!

Tucked under a canopy of mopane and tamboti trees, Ngala Safari Lodge boasts 20 Classic luxury thatched cottages with an old-world safari charm and exceptioal food, service and scenery.

Ngala offers an exceptional safari experience that is hard to beat!

DAY 6 & 7 | NGALA SAFARI LODGE

Each day on safari you’ll wake up bright and early, enjoy a cup of coffee and a traditional “rusk” while you listen to the cacophony of bird calls around you as the sun starts to rise. Enjoy your first safari drive of the day (the early morning is when the animals are at their most active!). Your ranger/tracker team will go in search of whatever animals they see signs and tracks of. Enjoy a coffee stop in the middle of the bush before heading back to the lodge for a hearty breakfast.

Spend the hottest part of the day relaxing around the pool, reading your book, or watching for which animals visit the lodge’s watering hole! Enjoy high tea following safari. Soak up a magnificent African sunset with sundowner drinks and snacks in the bush followed by a fantastic dinner under starlight in the lodge’s outdoor boma.

DAY 8 | NGALA SAFARI LODGE TO CAPE TOWN

This is your last day on safari (and of your trip!). Enjoy your last morning safari drive before packing up and getting your private transfer back to Hoedspruit for your direct flight to Cape Town for your onward plans.