Meet the Garden Route and Route 62!

Upon arrival at Cape Town airport you will be met by a driver and taken to your accommodation. Especially when you arrive late in the evening, it is nice not to have to drive yourself immediately. The following morning your rental car (category B of Europcar, Ford Fiesta or similar) will be delivered to your accommodation. If you do want to take the rental car immediately from the airport, this is of course also possible.

An easy way to discover the sights in and around Cape Town is by using the Hop on hop off bus.

Budget accommodations:

Comfort accommodations:
The next three nights you will stay at The Walden House, based on bed and breakfast. This beautiful accommodation is centrally located, making it easy to visit all the highlights.

Luxury accommodations:

Budget and comfortaccommodations:

Luxury accommodations:

At 7 p.m. you will return to the lodge and have a drink before heading to the restaurant for dinner. After dinner you can relax in the lounge or by a roaring fire.

In the morning you make a final game drive and look for the Big Five and other animal species. When you return to the lodge it is time to check out and drive to your next destination.

Knysna is beautifully situated on the Knysna Lagoon. At this lagoon you will find the cozy Knysna Waterfront with nice restaurants and shops. From here you also have a beautiful view of the “Heads” that form the passage to the Indian Ocean. If you look inland, you will see the Outeniqua mountains. All this ensures that nature is very diverse. You can go for a walk in the Knysna Forest and when it’s too hot, the age-old trees provide a cooling shade.

Budget accommodations:
You will spend the night at Abalone Lodge in a log cabin based on accommodation (there is a small kitchen in your cabin, in the garden you can use the bbq if desired).

Comfort accommodations:
You spend the night at the Blackwaters River Lodge, based on bed and breakfast. This beautiful lodge is located just outside of Knysna, in a beautiful valley.

Luxury accommodations:
The next night you will stay in the luxurious Kanonkop House, based on bed and breakfast. Especially enjoy the beautiful view of the Knysna Heads and the ocean!

You continue on the beautiful and green Garden Route to a fantastic nature area: Tsitsikamma National Park (part of the Garden Route National Park). Today you only have to drive 90 kilometers to your next destination, so you can make a stopover on the way, for example in Plettenberg Bay.

Tsitsikamma is a nature reserve for lovers of walking / hiking or simply enjoying nature. Fun activities to do here are the Canopy Tour, Blackwater tubing or perhaps a jump from the 216-meter high Bloukrans bridge with a bungee jump elastic around your feet. From the visitor center in the park there are various walking routes to follow, including a short route over a long suspension bridge that stretches over the mouth of the Storms River. The Tsitsikamma National Park offers lots of greenery, a rugged coastline, waterfalls and a wide variety of birds.

Budget accommodations:
You will stay at the Storms River Mouth Rest Camp, in the middle of the Tsitsikamma National Park, on a bed and breakfast basis. This accommodation is ideally located at the start of various beautiful hiking trails!

Comfort accommodations:

Luxury accommodations:
Overnight at the beautiful Misty Mountain Reserve, based on bed and breakfast. This accommodation is located on the edge of the Tsitsikamma National Park and from here you can make beautiful walks through the park.

In 1931 there were only 16 elephants in this area. It was clear that the elephants needed protection and the national park was created. Today, the elephant section in this area offers a home to more than 550 elephants! But there are also lions, buffaloes, black rhinos, jackals, spotted hyenas, leopards, heart animals and many other animals. But there is definitely one very important animal that we should certainly not forget, namely the unique Addo dung beetle! This animal is almost exclusively found here and is very important for biodiversity. It is therefore very important, when driving through the park, to pay attention and to ensure that you do not accidentally run over these animals.

Budget accommodations:

Comfort accommodations:
The coming days are all about game drives! During this “On safari to Addo Elephant National Park & Schotia Game Reserve” you will see both the elephants in the Addo Elephant National Park and the lions in the Schotia Game Reserve. You will spend the night in the Schotia Game Reserve, where you will experience a real “Out of Africa” feeling in the middle of the bush! During this trip the following game drives are included: 2x afternoon safari, 2x morning safari and 1x Addo Elephant National Park safari. You stay here on a full board basis.

Luxury accommodation:

The wonderful climate, the sea, dunes, bushveld and forests ensure a bird-rich life in and around Jeffrey’s Bay and 450 different species of feathered friends are found.

Budget, comfort and luxury accommodations:

If you book the budget version, you will stay in a classic room. If you book the comfort or the luxury version, you will stay in a luxury room.

You leave the coast behind and drive inland. Today your final destination is the so-called “ostrichhood city”:

Budget accommodation:
You drive through Montagu to your final destination today: the Pat Busch Mountain Reserve, near the town of Robertson. There is a nice night on the program, because you will spend the night in a real ‘glamping’ tent.

The tents of the Pat Busch Camp are beautifully situated between the Cape fynbos with the Langebergen in the background. Here you can see a wide variety of birds, but also live goats / antelopes and Nguni cows. In this nature reserve you can relax, take beautiful walks or go on long hikes, swim in the dam or the pool, fish and mountain bike. Accommodation is based on accommodation.

Comfort accommodations:
You end in the picturesque village of Montagu, a quiet village with hot springs where you can relax. Overnight at Montagu Vines Guesthouse based on bed and breakfast. From this accommodation it is a 10-minute walk to the “center” with old buildings and various restaurants.

Luxury accommodation:

The last destination of your trip is not far away. The wine and university town of Stellenbosch is a 1.5-hour drive away. This city, also called the wine capital of the country, is the second oldest city in South Africa and is hidden in a beautiful valley near Cape Town. In addition to the fact that this city has a lot to offer to wine lovers of course, culture lovers will also enjoy themselves here. The cozy center is full of old buildings from the colonial era and museums.

Budget accommodation:

Comfort accommodations:
You spend the night at the Cultivar Guest Lodge, based on bed and breakfast. Located between the vineyards at ca. 7 km from the center of Stellenbosch.

Luxury accommodation:

The last day of your journey has arrived. If you fly with KLM, you still have a whole day to enjoy the wine region. For example, you can book a nice excursion. How about a walk through the vineyards? Or perhaps a culinary walk through the center of Stellenbosch?

At the end of the afternoon you drive quietly to the airport where you return your car and you can check in for your flight back to the Netherlands.