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Day 7 George

Breakfast at your hotel. After breakfast you will be collected at your hotel and drive over the Outeniqua Pass to an Ostrich Show Farm, near Oudtshoorn. Come face to face With the biggest bird in the world and enjoy a guided tour of this unique animal husbandry. After a tour here, we carry on to the Cango Caves for a guided tour, international renowned as one of the world's great natural wonders sculpted by nature through the ages, their fascinating limestone formation occurs in a variety of ways. We then head back to Oudtshoorn, and continue on to George And Sedgefield.If time permits, we may be able to fit in the Cango Crocodile and Cheetah Ranch, on the way back to Oudtshoorn.

Hotel : Knysna Quays Hotel


Day 8 George

Breakfast at your hotel. Transfer to the Sedgefield staton. From here, take the trip on the Outeniqua Choo-Tjoe Steam Train. Arrive Knysna. The driver-guide will meet you at the station, from here you have two options:

1. You do the John Benn lunchtime cruise on the Knysna Lagoon. This starts at the Waterfront at 12h30, and gets back to the Waterfront at 2pm. A light lunch can be purchased on the John Benn (on your own account). After the cruise, a tour of the town, and the time for shopping at the Waterfront or Woodmill shopping centres.

2. From the Knysna Station the driver-guide take you in the kombi to the viewsite at the Knysna Heads - (Where the sea enters the lagoon). Then we continue on to Plettenberg Bay, visit the Beacon Island beach, and have lunch at a restaurant here. (on your own account). On the way back to Sedgefield, we can do the short walk in the Garden of Eden Forest, or in the nature reserve on the Robberg Peninsula. Dinner and overnight at the hotel.

Hotel : Knysna Quays Hotel


Day 9 George - Cape Town

Breakfast at your hotel. Transfer to George Airport for your flight to Cape Town, on arrival at Cape Town Airport transfer to your hotel. Day is at leisure. Overnight at the hotel.

Hotel : Hotel Holiday Inn Waterfront


Day 10 Cape Town

Breakfast at your hotel. Join the seat in coach tour of the winelands. Firstly visit Paarl, just thirty minutes from Cape Town. Also known as the "Pearl of the Cape" it lies nestled in the Berg River Valley between the watchful eye of the second largest granite rock formation in the world and the scenic Du Toit's Kloof Mountains. Visit the Afrikaans language monument. Continue to Franschhoek - originally known as "Olifants Hoek", after elephants took to calving in the sheltered valley of plentiful food and water.

Between 1688 and 1690 land was apportioned to 200 Huguenots fleeing persecution in France, finding the climate similar to that of France the settlers planted vines. Today, 20 members of the Vignerons produce wines consumed throughout the world.

Wine tasting at a local Wine Estate. Lunch on your own account. Continue on your tour of the Winelands, a haven of gracious, white-gabled farmsteads evoking a rich, elegant heritage, set in verdant valleys beneath the soaring Boland Mountains' forested slopes. The Stellenbosch Wine Route, synonymous with a variety of high quality award-winning red and white wines, established in April 1971 and is comprised today of 29 cellars. Wine tasting at a local estate before return transfer to Cape Town.

Hotel : Hotel Holiday Inn Waterfront


Day 11 Cape Town

Breakfast at your hotel. Join the seat in coach tour of the Cape Peninsula tour. First stop is Table Mountain. Travel onwards to Table Mountain (weather permitting). Unforgettable sweeping views of "the fairest Cape in the whole circumference of the world". Weather permitting, enjoy visibility over a radius of approximately 70km and view the city below. Descend from Upper cableway station and travel at a pace that allows you to explore the beauty of Cape Town City. Proceed to Hout Bay, a colourful and entertaining fishing harbour, a picturesque village filled with arts and crafts. OPTIONAL CRUISE TO SEAL ISLAND. Bustling Hout Bay is the centre of the snoek industry and headquarters of the crayfishing fleet. Enjoy a cruise to Seal Island, to view seals and sea birds at Duiker Island (weather permitting). During summer, several thousand Cape Fur Seals - along with the rare Black Cormorant - lollop leisurely among the kelp beds. Lunch on your own account. Continue to the Boulders Beach to view the penguins and onwards to Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve. Indigenous fauna and flora are conserved in this priceless wilderness area. The scenery en route to Cape Point, at the South Western tip of the reserve, is particularly lovely in spring when wildflowers carpet the landscape. The new lighthouse - the most powerful in the world - beams an electric light of 19 million candle power across the ocean. Return to your hotel in the late afternoon. Overnight at the hotel.

 


Day 12 Cape Town - India via Johannesburg

Early Breakfast. Transfer to Cape Town Airport for your flight back to India via Johannesburg.

Hotel : Hotel Holiday Inn Waterfront

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