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Splendid South Africa & Victoria Falls

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Travel Style: Array Relaxed
Physical Level: Walking or physical activity half to most of day - no carrying equipment. Easy
Lodging Level: Mid-range budget with accommodations ranging from comfortable lodges, guesthouses, and homestays to three star hotels. Value (3*)
11 days
From: $ 6,665 $ 606 / day
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Overview

Highlights (Bullets)

  • Cape Peninsula Tour (full-day)
  • Winelands Tour (Full-Day)
  • Cape Town City & Table Mountain Tour (Half-Day)
  • Zambezi River sunset cruise

Short Description

Embark on an adventure that will take you through all of the diverse aspects of South Africa. Start in Cape Town, a thriving city with beautiful coastal views as well as a gorgeous mountaintop that looks over the entire cape. Enjoy three tours leading through the city, exploring the variety of sights and wines throughout all of Cape Town,  as well as gardens to wander through and the trek up Table Mountain.

Take a flight from there to Thornybush Game Reserve, a private game drive stocked with the Big Five: African lions, African elephants, African leopards, Cape buffalo and rhinoceros. Have your camera prepared as you go on twice-daily excursions to see the wild animals of South Africa. From there, you will spend a night in Johannesburg and then move on to Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe.

Once in Victoria Falls, enjoy a sunset cruise along the Zambezi River, tours through the picturesque city, and lively meals with traditional singing, dancing, performances, and interactive customs.

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Style Self-guided tour
See all the highlights and popular spots on a classic tour.
Itinerary Focus Classic Highlights
Mid-range budget with accommodations ranging from comfortable lodges, guesthouses, and homestays to three star hotels.
Lodging Level Value (3*)
Flight & Transport Inclusions Roundtrip air to/from trip start & all internal transport
Start City South Africa
End City Victoria Falls

Itinerary

Day 1 Welcome to South Africa!

Touchdown in Cape Town International Airport where you will be met with a transfer to your hotel. The day is yours to spend at leisure, exploring the beautiful surrounding city. You could wander through the buzzing Victoria & Alfred Waterfront watching whale-spotting boats come in, grab a drink, or simply enjoy your new surroundings by lounging on the beach and relaxing after your flight.

Day 2 Cape Town

Make sure you indulge in your breakfast, because today's to-do list is encompassed by a full-day scenic tour of the Cape Peninsula. Walk along Boulders Beach, experience Chapman's Peak, find the edge at Cape Point, and more. Explore the diversity of Cape Town on this beautiful tour.

Day 3 Cape Town

Spend today sipping wine and walking in famous footsteps. Enjoy a Winelands tour as you taste wine from the Paarl Wine Region, enjoy a brief city tour of scenic Franschhoek that includes wine tasting and a photo stop at the Groot Drakenstein Prison that once held Nelson Mandela, and a tour through Stellenbosch, a university town with wine to sip. It's easy to see why Simon van der Stel decided to settle a village among these majestic mountains.

Day 4 Cape Town

Spend half the day on a beautiful City and Table Mountain Tour. Enjoy the most famous views from Table Mountain, see one of the New 7 Wonders of Nature, and enjoy a leisurely ride back down from the flat-topped mountain. Then, you get to take a scenic drive along the coast to Company Gardens, where you'll have the chance to take a walk through.

Day 5 Cape Town - Thornybush Game Reserve

Rise early to meet your transfer to the Cape Town International Airport for your flight into Hoedspruit Airport for the next part of your vacation, which is going to get a bit wild. Check in at your accommodation in the Thornybush Game Reserve to embark on safari adventures. Make sure your camera is ready, the complete set of the Big Five roam among this park.

Day 6 Thornybush Game Reserve

Enjoy safari drives twice a day and get a first hand encounter with the wild animals within the game reserve. Keep a sharp eye out for lions, elephants, rhino, leopard, and buffalo. All of these and more call the game reserve home.

Day 7 Thornybush Game Reserve

Another day of safari adventuring awaits. Multitudes of bird species wander through the game reserve, as well as wildebeest, zebra, hippo, and more. This private reserve has an excellent stock of animals, and reliable waterholes that make for an exciting animal-spotting experience.

Day 8 Thornybush Game Reserve - Johannesburg

Take your last chance for a safari game drive, have a quick breakfast and then you're off on a flight to Johannesburg. Touch down and check into your hotel. Maybe you'll want to turn in early for the adventures that await, but you could explore the nightlife of Johannesburg while you've got the chance.

Day 9 Johannesburg - Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe

Rise early for another flight to Victoria Falls Airport. Upon touchdown, check into your lodge and begin your journey through this beautiful area. You get to go on a sunset cruise on the Zambezi River, and then enjoy dinner at Makuw-Kuwa Restaurant.

Day 10 Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe

Sleep in a bit and enjoy a leisurely breakfast, then it's time for your tour through Victoria Falls. In the evening, enjoy a very special Boma dinner at the lodge, complete with traditional singing, dancing, drummers, and more.

Day 11 Depart Victoria Falls!

Bid Africa goodbye and spend the morning your way, either relaxing and packing, or picking up last minute souvenirs. Take your transfer to the Victoria Falls Airport and fly to Johannesburg for your next flight home.

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Overall are experience was good. We really enjoyed Venice then Florence then Rome. The scheduled rail transportation was easy and convenient with our hotels closely located in Venice and Florence. We did not experience any issues with airfare either. Just note airfare will be overnight. If we were to offer any constructive criticism it would be our last hotel location in Rome (hotel Pineta Place). It was 30-45 minutes ( not including traffic) outside of central Rome rail station by Taxi ($40-$50 each way cost) where the hop off hop on city bus tours are located and 10 minutes away by vehicle to Bus lines (taxi $10). The hotel offered transportation to the bus lines but their schedule was limited and did not work around our tour times (early morning). We also learned airport taxi was to be another $100 one way. We ended up not staying at the outside hotel the last night in Rome because it cost too much to get back-and-forth with taxis to downtown and airport. The hotel was nice it was just the location. We actually scheduled another hotel downtown for our last night. I researched other central hotel locations and many were cheaper than where Pineta hotel was located outside of the city. Other than that location issue, the other city hotels were convenient, Although, we wish that us would’ve actually been in actual Venice island and not Mestre (outside Venice) to save on transportation costs. Florence location was perfect. Other city hotel locations locations were fine and not as big of an issue, when compared to Rome.
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Flight & Transport Inclusions

Roundtrip air to/from trip start & all internal transport

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Accommodations

  • Victoria and Alfred Hotel
  • Thornybush Waterside Lodge
  • Protea Hotel Fire & Ice Melrose Arch
  • Victoria Falls Safari Lodge

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