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Mara, Falls, Kruger & Cape
USD 17800
JAN-DEC
28 NIGHTS
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We are able to vary the price of this trip considerably, simply by swapping out the lodges that it contains. This is likely to have a very significant effect on the level of polish of the trip, but in all cases it will remain cool and authentic. Make your selection here and the lodges will automatically change in the itinerary below.
USD 27200 per person
This trip includes really good quality properties, perhaps without the intense polish of the very top lodges, but also without the premium price tag.
Trip Summary
Start location : Nairobi International
Nairobi
Mara North
02 : Serian Mara Ngare
03 : Serian Mara Ngare
Mara Naboisho
04 : Naboisho Camp
05 : Naboisho Camp
Mara North
06 : Serian Mara Ngare
07 : Serian Mara Ngare
Nairobi
Victoria Falls Town
09 : Victoria Falls Hotel
10 : Victoria Falls Hotel
11 : Victoria Falls Hotel
Timbavati Reserve
12 : Simbavati Hilltop
13 : Simbavati Hilltop
14 : Simbavati Hilltop
Kruger Park North
15 : Pafuri Camp
16 : Pafuri Camp
17 : Pafuri Camp
18 : Pafuri Camp
Cape Town
19 : Four Rosmead
20 : Four Rosmead
21 : Four Rosmead
22 : Four Rosmead
De Hoop
23 : Morukuru Beach Lodge
24 : Morukuru Beach Lodge
25 : Morukuru Beach Lodge
Franschhoek
26 : La Cle Lodge
27 : La Cle Lodge
28 : La Cle Lodge
End location : Cape Town International
Nairobi
The capital of Kenya, Nairobi is a major city and the primary transport hub for East Africa. It's a typically hectic place, but with some pleasant quiet suburbs, a good range of hotels and some interesting activities, notably the famous giraffe and baby elephant sanctuaries.
Day 1
Arrival : Nairobi International Airport
lodge
Four Points Nairobi Airport
Four Points by Sheraton Nairobi Airport is located adjacent to the main runway.
The hotel is very much from the standard template, with all the usual facilities.
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Mara North
Set 200 km west of Nairobi, Mara North is an excellent private conservancy to the northeast of the main Maasai Mara reserve, with guest accommodation in a good range of camps and offering a wide range of safari and cultural activities.
Day 2 , 3
Fly : Nairobi Wilson to Mara North
lodge
Serian Mara Ngare
Serian Mara Ngare Camp is located in the Mara North area.
The camp is centred on a tented mess, leading out to a campfire area.
Guest accommodation is in just four tented Rooms with indoor and outdoor bathrooms.
Activities include vehicle safari, walking safari, bush meals, cultural interaction and night vehicle safari.
The primary activity is vehicle safari during day and night.
The camp also offers high quality walking safari.
Visits to local Maasai villages are also possible.
Mara Naboisho
Set 200 km west of Nairobi, Mara Naboisho is an excellent private conservancy to the north of the main Maasai Mara reserve, with guest accommodation in a handful of good camps and offering a wide range of high quality safari activities.
Day 4 , 5
lodge
Naboisho Camp
Naboisho Camp is located in the Mara Naboisho area.
The camp is centred a substantial thatched mess.
Guest accommodation is in Seven luxurious tented Rooms with indoor bathrooms ...
... and two Family Rooms.
Activities include vehicle safari, walking safari, bush meals, cultural interaction and night vehicle safari.
Vehicle safari is possible day and night.
The walking safari here is particularly strong.
The wildlife viewing is usually strongest during the Jul-Oct dry season, although there are very good reasons to visit during other months.
Mara North
Set 200 km west of Nairobi, Mara North is an excellent private conservancy to the northeast of the main Maasai Mara reserve, with guest accommodation in a good range of camps and offering a wide range of safari and cultural activities.
Day 6 , 7
lodge
Serian Mara Ngare
Serian Mara Ngare Camp is located in the Mara North area.
The camp is centred on a tented mess, leading out to a campfire area.
Guest accommodation is in just four tented Rooms with indoor and outdoor bathrooms.
Activities include vehicle safari, walking safari, bush meals, cultural interaction and night vehicle safari.
The primary activity is vehicle safari during day and night.
The camp also offers high quality walking safari.
Visits to local Maasai villages are also possible.
Nairobi
The capital of Kenya, Nairobi is a major city and the primary transport hub for East Africa. It's a typically hectic place, but with some pleasant quiet suburbs, a good range of hotels and some interesting activities, notably the famous giraffe and baby elephant sanctuaries.
Day 8
Fly : Mara North to Nairobi Wilson
lodge
Four Points Nairobi Airport
Four Points by Sheraton Nairobi Airport is located adjacent to the main runway.
The hotel is very much from the standard template, with all the usual facilities.
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Victoria Falls Town
Set in the northwest corner of Zimbabwe, across the river from Zambia, Victoria Falls is one of the most alluring locations in Africa, surprisingly pleasant and undeveloped, with guest accommodation in around 20 diverse hotels and lodges, offering a very wide range of safari, cultural and adrenaline-based activities.
Day 9 , 10 , 11
Fly : Nairobi to Livingstone
lodge
Victoria Falls Hotel
Victoria Falls Hotel is located in Victoria Falls town.
The hotel is everything you would expect of a Victorian property of this stature.
Guest accommodation is in a total of 161 rooms, in a range of different specifications ...
... including classic rooms ...
... standard rooms ...
... Executive Suites ...
... and with one Royal Suite.
Activities are centred on visits to the Victoria Falls, vehicle safari, motorboat safari, canoe safari, scenic flights and white-water rafting.
A visit to the falls themselves is surprisingly interesting and impressive.
Scenic flights over the falls can be done by helicopter, light aircraft or micro-light.
The are various high adrenaline options for bungee jumping, gorge swinging and zip-lining.
The gorge below the falls is one of the best locations in the world for white-water rafting.
Motorboat safari on the languid river above the falls can be surprisingly good for wildlife.
This is also a great location for canoeing, with the "Smoke that Thunders" beyond.
Some modest vehicle safari is available in various reserves in the area.
Walking safari is also possible in some locations.
Timbavati Reserve
Set in the northeast of South Africa, Timbavati is a very strong private safari reserve to the west of Kruger National Park, containing a full range of safari wildlife and hosting a very strong range of relatively well-priced lodges.
Day 12 , 13 , 14
Fly : Victoria Falls to Nelspruit MQP
Fly : Nelspruit MQP to Simbavati
lodge
Simbavati Hilltop
Simbavati Hilltop Lodge is located on the Timbavati Reserve in the Kruger area.
The lodge is centred on a dramatic main building, leading out to a swimming pool with panoramic views.
Activities are centred on vehicle safari, walking safari and night vehicle safari.
Kruger Park North
Set in South Africa, Kruger Park North is the more remote sector of this vast reserve, with bigger scenery, lower wildlife densities, much lower vehicle traffic, great hiking and cultural activities and a handful of good quality lodges on large private concessions.
Day 15 , 16 , 17 , 18
Fly : Hoedspruit HDS to Pafuri
lodge
Pafuri Camp
Pafuri Tented Camp is located in the northern sector of Kruger National Park.
The camp is centred on an open-sided main building, leading out to a swimming pool.
Guest accommodation is in 19 Luxury Tents, of which seven are two bedroom Family Suites.
Activities are centred on vehicle safari, walking safari, dramatic mountain hiking, visits to stone age sites and to local Makuleke villages.
The primary activity is vehicle safari, mainly inside the private concession.
Walking safari and hiking are particularly strong amongst these scenic landscapes.
Cape Town
Set in the Western Cape of South Africa, Cape Town is a fabulous, fascinating city, tucked in the folds of a very beautiful national park, where you are never short of a view and never more than a short walk away from an epic hiking trail. There's so much to see and do that a few nights will only enable you to scratch the surface.
Day 19 , 20 , 21 , 22
Fly : Pafuri to Hoedspruit HDS
Fly : Hoedspruit HDS to Cape Town
lodge
Four Rosmead
Four Rosmead is located in the Oranjezicht area of Cape Town.
The lodge is centred on a large 1903 house, set in a pretty garden.
Guest accommodation is in three rooms on the lower floor, two in a separate garden annex ...
... and two on the upper floor of the main house.
Activities include sight-seeing, beaches, hiking, horse-riding, mountain-biking, surfing, snorkelling, diving, kayaking and sailing, plus whale, dolphin and seal watching.
In Cape Town you are never more than a couple of minutes away from a great hiking trail.
The Victoria and Alfred Waterfront is a popular area full of stores, restaurants and museums.
The trip out to the Apartheid prison on Robben Island is surprisingly authentic and moving.
The City Centre is surprisingly compact and easy to explore on foot.
To the west there are some really gorgeous cold water beaches.
The botanical gardens at Kirstenbosch are truly spectacular and not to be missed.
Constantia contains the Cape's oldest wineries, a couple of which are open to the public.
The Cape of Good Hope makes for a really good day trip.
The route is usually best done anti-clockwise, first heading south to Hout Bay.
The dramatic Chapman's Peak Road.
The broad beach from Noordhoek to Kommetjie.
The sleepy settlement of Scarborough.
Entering the national park, we approach Cape Point.
Returning north along the eastern side of the peninsular.
The naval port of Simons Town.
The famous penguin colony at Boulders Beach.
The broad view across the Cape Flats from Muizenberg.
De Hoop
Set on the Whale Coast, De Hoop is a lovely coastal nature reserve, a real hidden gem, containing fabulous white dunes, swimmable rock pools, shore-based whale-watching (Jun-Oct), fascinating endemic fynbos flora and fauna, plus a good range of larger mammals, notably including baboons, bonteboks and caracals. There are a handful of good accommodation options.
Day 23 , 24 , 25
lodge
Morukuru Beach Lodge
Morukuru Beach Lodge is located in the De Hoop Nature Reserve on the Whale Coast.
The lodge is contained within a single modern building above the ocean.
Guest accommodation is in five lovely Suites.
Activities include lovely beach picnics, snorkelling, inter-tidal walks, dune-boarding, gentle vehicle safaris, mountain-biking and hiking.
The area contains some superb beaches, with excellent snorkelling pools.
Whales, dolphins and sharks can often be seen from the dunes.
The beautiful coastal dunes are perfect for boarding.
Modest vehicle safari is also possible, including bonteboks, zebras, elands, baboons and caracals.
Franschhoek
Set in the heart of the Cape Winelands, Franschhoek is a beautiful and relaxed village and a very popular place for our guests to stay, with a wealth of high class wineries, restaurants and hotels, plus options for shopping, mountain hiking and biking.
Day 26 , 27 , 28
lodge
La Cle Lodge
La Cle Country Lodge is located in the village of Franschhoek in the Cape Winelands.
The lodge is centred on a restored Huguenot farmstead in pretty gardens.
Guest accommodation is in just five suites.
Activities include wineries, fine dining, mountain-biking and hiking.
The village of Franschhoek is a pleasant place to explore, packed with fine wineries and restaurants.
There are also excellent options for mountain and road biking in the area.
The valley contains several superb wineries that are open to visitors.
There are also some hiking options in the hills above the village.
Day 29
Departure : Cape Town International
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