R6,450.00
3 Day Garden Route Budget Safari
Description
Garden Route Budget Safari is an action-packed itinerary but you can opt to take it at a more leisurely pace.
Guests stay in budget-friendly backpackers accommodation which is chosen because it’s clean, comfortable and conveniently located to the town’s popular restaurants and shops. This is the ideal tour for solo travellers and young couples with an adventurous spirit.
Garden Route Budget Safari, This is home to elephant, buffalo, an array of antelope, plains game and lightweight predators which means it’s also safe for guided walking safaris.
Accommodation:
Afrovibe.
This owner-operated property caters to adventurous spirits exploring the Garden Route and is ideally situated on the sandy fringes of beautiful Myoli Beach in Sedgefield. The hostel offers self-catering facilities, free Wi-Fi and a popular late-night bar.
Backpackers Paradise.
Backpackers Paradise provides excellent budget-friendly accommodation in the heart of the “Ostrich Capital of the World”. It offers all the amenities you’d expect including free Wi-Fi, coffee shop, lounge/bar, guest kitchen and splash pool and a variety of room choices from private en-suite rooms to shared dorms.
Note: Accommodation is subject to availability
Itinerary:
Cape Town – Oudtshoorn
Guests are collected from a pre-arranged pick-up point in Cape Town. We set off along the famous Route 62 and wind our way through mountain passes, vineyards and tropical fruit orchards to the quaint town of Oudtshoorn in the Little Karoo, otherwise known as the “Ostrich Capital of the World”.
We go straight to the Cango Caves for an underground tour of its dripstone caverns which open into vast halls of towering stalagmite and stalactite formations. You can choose to go on the heritage tour or the adventure tour which sees you crawling on your hands and knees through underground tunnels.
The day ends with an evening out in Oudtshoorn. You can eat out at one of the popular restaurants in town which serve authentic Karoo meals or stay in for a braai (barbeque) of ostrich or lamb kebabs.
Overnight at Backpackers Paradise in Oudtshoorn.
Activities:
- Cango Caves Heritage or Adventure Tour
Oudtshoorn – Sedgefield.
Wake up early and join your ranger for an optional guided bush walk in Buffelsdrift Private Game Reserve and interact with three hand-reared orphaned elephants. Your day starts a bit later if you don’t go on the elephant walk.
After a good breakfast, we depart for the beautiful Garden Route. Our first stop is in Wilderness for a leisurely canoe ride down a magical river that’s flanked by an ancient indigenous forest. Enroute to Sedgefield, we stop at Bloukrans Bridge which is the highest commercial bungee jump site in the world. You have the option of bungee jumping off the 216 metre-high bridge or ziplining across the gorge.
The day ends at a backpackers hostel in Sedgefield and an evening eating out in town at one of the many popular seaside restaurant or bars.
Overnight at Afrovibe in Sedgefield.
Activities:
- Wilderness canoeing.
- Buffelsdrift elephant bush walk.
- Bloukrans bungee jump or zip-line.
Day 3:
Sedgefield – Botlierskop Private Game Reserve – Cape Town
Wake up before the sun rises and be ready to depart for a Big 5 safari tour of Botlierskop Private Game Reserve. It’s a 42 000 hectare private reserve that’s well stocked with antelope and plains games, including the rare golden wildebeest, mountain zebra and black impala. At some point in the safari tour, your guide lets you get off the safari vehicle and takes you on a guided walk in the coastal bushveld.
We travel back to Cape Town on Route 62; sit back, relax and enjoy the scenery. Guests are dropped off at their address Cape Town in the late afternoon or early evening.
Activities:
- Botlierskop Big 5 safari tour in an open safari vehicle and guided bushveld walk
Included:
- Collection & drop off in Cape Town.
- Transfer in air-conditioned tour vehicle.
- English-speaking guide.
- Entrance Fee as specified per The Itinerary.
- 3-nights comfortable semi-luxury accommodation.
- Open Vehicle Safari Drive.
- Meals as specified per itinerary.
Excluded:
- Personal purchases.
- Guide Gratuity.
- Meals not specified on itinerary.
- Visas.
- Fees on Optional Activities
Important:
- Available weekly on a Friday
- Children, 4-12 Years Pay 50%
- We offer cost effective group tours and transfers ranging from 2 – 19 persons per vehicle. Please do inform us if you would prefer a private tour (additional rates may apply).
Additional information
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