Explore the Cape Winelands & the spectacular Garden Route. Join our
awesome private / small group tour with overnight stays in Knysna, Oudtshoorn & Winelands.
Visit Babylonstoren Gardens. Take a Cellar Tour and Lunch at the Green House Restaurant. Enjoy a wine/juice and a lunch platter along Route 62. Indulge in amazing Spa & Holistic Wellness Treatments. Soak away your aches and pains at the Montagu Mineral Hot Water Springs. Meals are strictly healthy & nutritious. Vegetarian or Vegan dishes available on request.
Experience the spectacular Cango Caves and Ostriches. Stroll along pristine beaches with no other footprints Visit ancient forests where elusive wild elephants & leopards lurk in the shadows. See Giant Yellowwood trees at Natures Valley.
The tour is conducted by an experienced chauffeur driver / guide. Luxury accommodation is in Guest Houses, Lodges or Villas and includes breakfasts. Also included are some Dinners, Lunches & entry fees to Activities / Attractions.
Inclusions & Exclusions
✔ All ground transportation, chauffer driver, three Wine Tastings, bottled water, tolls and taxes.
✔ Lunch
✔ Accommodation in 4 star Hotels,Guest Houses or Villas with daily breakfasts
✔ Breakfast
✔ Entry to Ostrich Ranch and Cango Caves.
✖ Dinners, lunch on day 5 and Optional activities
✖ Spa and wellness treatments, alcoholic beverages and items of a personal nature.
Pickup Locations
1. Onomo Cape Town Waterfront
2. The PortsWood
3. Cape Town Hollow
4. SunSquare Cape Town Gardens
5. Cloud 9 Boutique Hotel & Spa
6. The Village Lodge
7. Fountains Hotel
8. Dysart Boutique Hotel
9. Upperbloem
10. The Capital 15 on Orange
11. Apartments In Mandela Rhodes Place
12. 9 On Barrack
13. ONOMO Hotel Cape Town - Inn On The Square
14. Lady Hamilton Hotel
15. Waterfront Village
16. Holiday Inn Express Cape Town City Centre, an IHG hotel
17. Blackheath Lodge
18. Glen Boutique Hotel & Spa
19. AC Hotel Cape Town Waterfront
20. Kensington Place
Additional Info: A minimum of 2 adults is required for this tour to take place.
Itinerary
Cape Winelands
1
Stellenbosch Vineyards
The first stop is Babylonstoren - one of the oldest Cape Dutch farms in the Winelands. It has a fruit and vegetable garden of beauty, fine food & wine and a sense of well-being.
We begin with a guided tour of the fruit and fresh vegetable garden which offers an ever-changing tapestry of botanical diversity. Our next activity will be a cellar tour and wine tasting of the fine wines of Babylonstoren.
Lunch will be served in the Greenhouse Restaurant. The Greenhouse offers guests a wonderful refreshment station after their walk through the garden. All food is served picnic-style in wooden crates with the preserves, jams and salads served in weck jars, while fresh bread from a wood-fired oven is wrapped in the iconic blue-and-white Babylonstoren paper.
Duration: 3 hours
2
Robertson Wine Valley
After lunch visit some of the area's most elegant wine estates for optional tasting of their superb wines. Guests will have an opportunity to purchase organic wines or juices.
Overnight at the Montagu Country Hotel & Spa. Flowing naturally from a fissure in the rock face, the spa bath contains minerals that have healing powers. Guests are free to enjoy a visit to the Health Spa. Free for dinner.
Duration: 60 minutes
Wine Tasting and Ostriches
1
De Krans Wines
Leaving the Winelands, we head through the unique and scenically spectacular Klein Karoo Route 62 to arrive in Oudtshoorn, the "ostrich capital" of the world. Great flocks of ostriches provide a spectacle to be seen nowhere else. Enjoy a wine-tasting with bread & cheese platter at De Krans Wine Estate - an award winning wine estate at Calitzdorp.
Duration: 60 minutes
2
Highgate Ostrich Show Farm
The ostrich is surely one of the world's most peculiar birds and you will experience a visit to a fascinating Ostrich Show Farm.
Duration: 60 minutes
3
Overnight in Oudtshoorn at Buffelsdrift Private Game Reserve. Their Bush Spa offers a wellness haven that restores peace to body & soul. Various treatments are available to promote health & beauty. Optional Game drives are available.
Free for Dinner at the exquisite Buffelsdrift Game dining Room and enjoy a memorable culinary experience. Vegetarian dishes are available.
Duration: 18 hours
Cango Caves - Wildlife Safari - Wine tasting
1
Cango Caves
After a leisurely breakfast, we proceed to one of Africa's great wonders - the subterranean wonderland of the Cango Caves. The largely unexplored sequence of vast caverns are filled with amazing formations of glittering dripstone.
Lunch is enjoyed along with a tasting of Klein Karoo Wines or Juices.
Duration: 60 minutes
2
Wilderness
Crossing the magnificent Outeniqua Mountains, we descend into the Garden Route. Our first Stop is the Wilderness where we stop for optional Craft Beer and Gin Tasting. (Juice and non-alcoholic beer available)
Duration: 60 minutes
3
Knysna
Arriving in Knysna, we begin to explore this charming village with its myriad attractions for visitors.
Overnight at the Knysna Waterfront or a nearby Guest House. Free for dinner at the Waterfront.
Duration: 1 day
Tsitsikamma Forest Region. Natures Valley and Plettenberg Bay
1
Plettenberg Bay
Today you will explore Plettenberg Bay and the Tsitsikamma forest region. Originally named Bahia Formosa (Beautiful Bay) by the first Portuguese explorers, Plettenberg Bay more than lives up to its name as you spend time in its environs. We will do some whale and dolphin spotting. In the winter months there will be plenty of whales to view close to the shore.
Lunch can be enjoyed at Bocca Dolce Restaurant. This quaint vegetarian/vegan café is on the farm Quarry Lake, where owners Lello and Lisa Incendiario grow and sell their own organic vegetables, microgreens, and wheatgrass. Alternatively a fresh sea-food lunch can be taken right on the beach at Plettenberg Bay.
Duration: 4 hours
2
Nature's Valley
The coastal road we follow wends it's way along steep river gorges, over spectacular mountain passes and through dense indigenous forests and ferns. We visit the tiny settlement of Nature's Valley, one of the loveliest havens of tranquillity along the Garden Route. Our exploration of this ancient forest leads through the tangle of trees, ferns and creepers to the undisputed monarch of the forest - gigantic Outeniqua Yellowwood trees.
An optional tour of Monkeyland or the Birds of Eden or the Knysna Elephant Park is available before departing back to Knysna.
Duration: 2 hours
3
Le Spa Tranquille
Visit the award winning Le Spa Tranquille, situated on the edge of the scenic Knysna Lagoon in Thesen Island Harbour Town. The therapy rooms have picturesque views of the lagoon which, combined with our therapists expert touch, guarantee a soothing experience leaving you feeling rejuvenated and de-stressed.
Restore your well-being by indulging in treatments on offer from vichy shower scrubs, massage, hot stone therapy, reflexology, body wraps, specialised Clarins and Guinot facials and bridal treats to OPI manicures and pedicures.
Duration: 2 hours
4
Knysna Lagoon
Optional sunset cruise on the Knysna Lagoon. There is a choice of yachts, ferries and cruisers. Free for dinner at the Knysna Waterfront.
Duration: 2 hours
Knysna - South Africa's Favorite Town
1
The Waterfront Knysna Quays
After breakfast guests may visit the Le Spa Tranquille. Alternative optional activities include Yoga, Whale & Dolphin Watching, a forest or beach walk or a round of golf at a Championship Course.
There will be an opportunity to do some last minute shopping or enjoy lunch at the seaside at Victoria bay. We drop off our guests in the mid afternoon at George Airport.
This tour can begin in George and end in Cape Town with slight changes to the itinerary. If the above mentioned accommodation is not available we will replace it with alternative accommodation of a similar nature.
Duration: 3 hours
Cancellation Policy
If you cancel at least 6 full day(s) before the scheduled departure time, you will receive a full refund.
If you cancel between 2 and 6 day(s) before the scheduled departure time, you will receive a 50% refund.
If you cancel within 2 day(s) of the scheduled departure, you will receive a 0% refund.
Additional info
• Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
• Public transportation options are available nearby
• Specialized infant seats are available
• Suitable for all physical fitness levels
• Guests can be picked up at Cape Town Hotels at the start of the tour
