Serengeti, Zanzibar, Kruger Vic Falls & Cape
SAMPLE TRIP

Serengeti, Zanzibar, Kruger Vic Falls & Cape

USD 15400
JAN-DEC
28 NIGHTS

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USD 15400 per person
This trip includes very cool, well-located and relatively well-priced lodges, suitable for more adventurous, easy-going and outdoorsy travellers.

Trip Summary

Start location : Kilimanjaro International
Arusha
Serengeti Mara
Serengeti Southcentral
Ngorongoro Karatu
Pongwe
Stonetown
Johannesburg
Sabi Sand Reserve
Klaserie Reserve
Victoria Falls Town
Cape Town
De Hoop
Franschhoek
End location : Cape Town International

Arusha

Located in Tanzania North, Arusha is a significant and relatively pleasant town, the start point for safaris into the Serengeti region, with guest accommodation in a good range of largely rural lodges. Overnight stops are frequently needed here in order to make flight connections.

Day 1

Arrival : Kilimanjaro
lodge

Arumeru Lodge

Serengeti Mara

Serengeti Mara is the prime but potentially busy area for migration herds and river crossings during the Jul-Nov dry season and a wonderful quiet backwater at other times, with guest accommodation in around 30 small lodges and camps, offering a good range of safari experiences.

Day 2 , 3 , 4

Fly : Arusha ARK to Kogatende OLG
Safari vehicle : Tanzania North
lodge

Mara River Post

Serengeti Southcentral

Serengeti Southcentral is one of the most magical of areas, with migration calving Dec-Mar, superb Maasai interaction, incredible palaeontology and just two rather cool mid-priced lodges.

Day 5

Safari vehicle : Tanzania North
lodge

Olduvai Camp

Ngorongoro Karatu

Situated 10 km to the southeast of the Ngorongoro Crater, Karatu is an area of fabulous rural scenery centred on a busy agricultural town, with guest accommodation in some lovely farmhouse lodges, offering a wide range of cultural, active and safari experiences.

Day 6 , 7

Safari vehicle : Tanzania North
lodge

Bashay Rift Lodge

Pongwe

Set on the east coast of Zanzibar Island, Pongwe is a peaceful area of stunning coves and pretty small beaches, with guest accommodation in a handful of decent lodges, offering a wide range of marine and cultural activities.

Day 8 , 9 , 10

Safari vehicle : Tanzania North
Fly : Manyara to Zanzibar
lodge

Pongwe Beach Hotel

Stonetown

Set on the west coast of Zanzibar Island, Stone Town is a fabulously historic and chaotic place, with guest accommodation in a wide range of characterful hotels, offering a wide range of largely cultural and historical activities.

Day 11

lodge

Park Hyatt Zanzibar

Johannesburg

Set to the northeast of South Africa, Johannesburg is the great commercial heart of the country and the main transport hub, a sprawling mess of a place, scarred through its heart by the gold mines. It is not somewhere safari travellers tend to linger too long, although the Cradle of Mankind may be worth a visit.

Day 12

Fly : Zanzibar to Dar Domestic
Fly : Dar es Salaam to Johannesburg ORT
lodge

City Lodge Hotel OR Tambo

Sabi Sand Reserve

Set in the northeast of South Africa, Sabi Sand is the premium private safari reserve to the west of Kruger National Park, with extremely rich and accessible wildlife and containing the lion's share of the region's high quality lodges.

Day 13 , 14 , 15

Fly : Johannesburg ORT to Skukuza
lodge

Notten's Bush Camp

Klaserie Reserve

Set in the northeast of South Africa, Klaserie is a substantial private reserve to the west of Kruger National Park, an up-and-coming area with an increasingly wide range of well-priced lodges.

Day 16 , 17 , 18

lodge

River Rock Lodge

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 19 , 20 , 21

Fly : Nelspruit MQP to Victoria Falls
lodge

Batonka Guest Lodge

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 22 , 23 , 24

Fly : Victoria Falls to Cape Town
lodge

Four Rosmead

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 25 , 26

lodge

De Hoop Suites

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 27 , 28

lodge

Auberge Clermont

Day 29

Departure : Cape Town International
Okavango Delta Safari

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