Garden Route Tours South Africa

Photo: Plettenberg Bay

Selection of budget and luxury holiday tours along South Africa's Garden Route. Rich in scenic beauty visiting Mossel Bay, Oudtshoorn, Knysna and Plettenberg Bay

Tours are designed to suit all tastes - from ocean safaris to game viewing in Addo Elephant Park. Explore the majestic caves at Cango or take a tractor ride to the Heads at Knysna

Eat oysters, sip wine, enjoy true South African lunches in historic towns or amble along quaint fishing villages

Klein Karoo.

A rich fruit and wine producing region also noted for its ostrich farming.

Ride an ostrich as well as learning about their breeding and development.

We'll tour the impressive Cango Caves with its impressive dripstone caverns and vast halls of towering stalactite and stalagmite formations. The tour ends with a visit to the Cango Wildlife Centre for endangered species and includes cheetah contact.

Natures Beauty & Nostalgia

The morning is spent exploring and enjoying the beauty of Knysna.

A ferry takes you to the Western Knysna Head a striking geological feature flanking the channel from which the sea enters into the lagoon. Lunch at a unique restaurant is included

The Afternoon is spent Interacting with Elephants

Interaction with the gentle giants ends with a scenic drive back to Wilderness.

Return to Eden

Spend a full day on a ecological tour looking for Bottlenose dolphins and the rare Indo-Pacific Humpback dolphin in Plettenberg Bay.

Other highlights finding Bryde's whales, Southern Right and Humpback whales.

The afternoon is spent at Monkeyland with its many species of primates, finishing with a visit to Bird's Of Eden sanctuary. This is a unique two hectare dome (the world's largest aviary),

Garden Route Tour Budget

Touring the Garden Route enjoying wine tasting and an authentic South African lunch at Barrydale.

The journey takes us via the Kelin (little) Karoo to Mossel Bay and Knysna.

Activities include a ferry ride to the Featherbed Nature Reserve on the Knysna lagoon - a tractor ride to the top of the Western Heads and optional hikes through indigenous forests.

Meet and interact with elephants before driving to Plettenberg Bay and the Tsitsikamma Forest.

The Garden Route Discounted Tour

Highlights include a stop at the Diaz maritime museum at Mossel Bay, Knysna and the Western Heads then moving onto Oudtshoorn and the Cango Caves and Cango Wildlife Ranch.

Try your skills at ostrich riding or touch a Bengal tiger at Cango's research centre.

The centre provides something for the whole family - educational and entertaining.

The route continues via Plettenberg Bay and the Tsitsikamma forest with a sto pfor lunch at Storms River.

Garden Route Luxury Tour

A luxury class tour via the famous Route 62 to Oudtshoorn and the Cango Caves and ostrich farm.

Experience an adventure ocean safari whale and dolphon watching - or take time out and enjoy golf on a world famous course.

From Knysna to Port Elizabeth through the Tsitsikamma Forest and Storms Mouth where the tour will end.

Also on the tour is a visit to a Crocodile and Cheetah Park.

Garden Route Holiday

First stop is lunch at Barrydale then onto Mossel Bay and the Diaz Museum.

At Knysna enjoy the Featherbed Nature reserve and the Western Heads with their awesome view points.

Onto Oudtshoorn with visits to an ostrich farm, Cango Research Centre and the famous Caves.

Highlight of this tour is the ecological adventure spent looking for Bottlenose and Indo Pacific Humpback dolphins.

Monkeyland is home to a wide variety of primates and is the world's first free roaming multi species sanctuary.

Luxury Travel Garden Route

Five star luxury tour as you travel to Oudtshoorn and enjoy all its many attractions including the Caves at Cango and ostrich farm.

Spend at day at sea whale and dolphin watching.

Time to find the Big 5 at the Shamwari Game Reserve winner of numerous conservation awards.

Good opportunity to learn firsthand about the flora and fauna of the region as well as searching for leopards and other nocturnal animals.

Garden Route Budget Tour

The Garden Route is a stretch of coastal scenic beauty - with mountains and indigenous forests, quaint seaside fishing villages, beaches and bays.

Enjoy these as you travel the Tsitsikamma Forest, Plettenberg Bay,Knysna and Mossel Bay.

Savour oysters, take a tractor ride, interact with elephants, taste wine and an authentic South African lunch.

Garden Route

Between Cape Town and Port Elizabeth lies South Africa's playground - the Garden Route.

Travel via the Tsitsikamma Forest and crossing the scencially beautiful Storms River to Knysna.

This tour includes a visit to the Addo Elephant Park - home of the Big 7 (lion, leopard, elephant, buffalo, black rhino as well as the Great White shark and whale species.

At Oudtshoorn we visit the ostrich farms and explore the Cango Caves.

The Cango Wildlife Ranch is an important breeding and research centre.

Animals at the centre include Bengal tiger, white lions, pygmy hippos.

Luxury Travel - Garden Route

Go on an ocean safari for whale, dolphins and seal watching
in the protected Plettenberg Bay.

This bay is home to a diverse amount of marine life (Bottlenose, Humpback and Common dolphins, Southern Right and Humpback whales not forgetting the colony of Cape Fur seals.

Included in the tour is a visit to an ostrich farm, returning via the scenic Route 62 .

Garden Route Safari

A WOW tour which offers visit to Addo Elephant Park, an ocean safari, a monkey safari, a birding and ostrich experience.

Famous for its scenery and many tourist attractions, this Garden Route tour also offers a visit to Knysna, the Cango Caves and the Cango Wildlife Ranch.

At Cango ranch you will encounter white lions, cheetahs, pygmy hippos and more.

Garden Route Package Tour

Travel outh Africa's famous Garden Route with its many tourist attractions including Plettenberg Bay and Knysna.

At Knysna we visit the Feathered Nature reserve and interact with elephants.

Travelling onto Oudtshoorn through the Outeniqua Mountains to an ostrich farm.

Oudtshoorn is famous for its Cango Caves - a vast underground world of stalactite and stalagmites.

The tour also include a visit to Mossel Bay and the wine valleys of the Cape.

Capetown - Garden Route - Cape Town

HighLights

5 day sightseeing holiday from Cape Town to Cape Agulhas - southern most tip of Africa - whale Watching at Hermanus- Cango caves - Knysna - Cape Town

photo: Birds-of-Eden Sanctuary

Garden Route Tour to Wilderness

Departure Daily From

08h00 from Cape Town or Port Elizabeth hotels

Daily 08h00 from Wilderness hotel

A scheduled shuttle service that Includes all Entrance fees and meals

Port Elizabeth to Wilderness or vice-versa

Cape Town to Wilderness or vice-versa

Shuttle Service to Wilderness

This service is the same as above but EXCLUDES all entrance fees and meals

Port Elizabeth to Wilderness or vice-versa : Port Elizabeth, Tsitsikamma Mountains. Storms River Storms River Mouth Plettenberg Bay Knysna - Wilderness

Cape Town to Wilderness or vice-versa Cape Town -Worcester- du Toits Kloof Pass - Robertson - Montagu - Barrydale - little Karoo -Tradouw Pass - Diaz Museum in Mossel Bay - Wilderness