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Garden Route Splendour
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3 Nights / 4 Days
Port Elizabeth – Knysna – Outshoorn - Cape TownDepartures - Sunday on request
From the moment we depart the Friendly City of Port Elizabeth, you’ll see and feel the changing landscape…and why we call it The Garden Route. Our leisurely journey takes us through the cool, calming Tsitsikamma National Park, the charming coastal town of Knysna with it’s well established fine arts and crafts centre, glorious lagoon and sandstone ‘Heads’ standing sentry where the lagoon meets the sea, via ferry to the Featherbed Nature Reserve set at the entrance to the Knysna Lagoon.
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Flights and Accommodation fr
£ 1495
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(01 Jun – 31 Aug 12)
Price included all taxes
| Date | Board |
3 Nights / 4 Days | |
| 01 Jun – 31 Aug 12 |
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£ 1495 |
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| 01 Sep – 12 Oct 12 |
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£ 1539 |
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Terms- • All Prices are per person based on twin sharing basis
- • All prices include Return Flights
Then we’re off to Oudtshoorn, dubbed the feather capital of the world. If you haven’t heard or read about the Cango Caves, prepare for something extraordinary. Their magnificent dripstone formations of stalactites and stalagmites, are an awe-inspiring natural creation, and we’ll be standing right inside them. Depending on the season, our return to Cape Town will either involve a gentle drive along the coast at Hermanus, so we can catch a glimpse of Southern Right whales frolicking off shore; or, we’ll take you via the scenic Route 62. Feathers to fine art to forests, our Garden Route Splendour tour gives you a little of everything you’ll like best!
Tour Highlights
- Stroll through the Tsitsikamma National Park, renowned for its age-old trees.
- Journey via ferry to the Featherbed Nature Reserve, situated at the entrance to the Knysna Lagoon.
- Discover the Cango Caves with its magnificent dripstone formations of stalactites and stalagmites.
- Enjoy an ostrich farm experience.
- The best land-based whale watching in the world, is in Hermanus. (Seasonal July to November only).
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Day 1: (Sun) Port Elizabeth / Knysna (D)
We set off from the airport between 13h00 and 14h00 (and earlier if everyone has already arrived), travelling through the indigenous Tsitsikamma Forest towards the romantic seaside resort of Knysna, in the heart of the famous Garden Route, with scenic stops along the way. Dinner and overnight in Knysna.
Accommodation: Knysna Hollow Hotel or similar
Meals : Dinner
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Day 2: (Mon) Knysna (BL)
Cruise on the vast Knysna Lagoon and visit the Featherbed Nature Reserve. Enjoy an amazing view of the imposing sandstone ‘Heads’ which guard the sea entrance to Knysna’s huge tidal lagoon, and the forests, marshes and pristine beaches beyond. After lunch the remainder of the day is at leisure to enjoy this lovely and special town.
Accommodation: Knysna Hollow Hotel or similar
Meals : Break Fast & Lunch
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Day 3: (Tue) Cango Caves & Oudtshoorn (BL)
This morning we enjoy the wonderful views of the spectacular Outeniqua Pass en route to Oudtshoorn, the ‘feather capital of the world’, so named, because it’s the centre of South Africa’s ostrich industry. After lunch, we learn more about these hardy, enigmatic creatures during a tour of an ostrich farm. We then head underground for a fascinating tour of the Cango Caves, one of South Africa’s most incredible natural wonders. Overnight in Oudtshoorn.
Accommodation: Oudtshoorn Inn or similar
Meals : Break Fast & Lunch
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Day 4: (Wed) Cape Town (B)
A day of magnificent vistas. Enjoy the ever changing passing canvas as we travel to Cape Town. During the whale season we will travel via the seaside village of Hermanus in the hopes of catching a glimpse of southern right whales, which frolic offshore (July to November only). Out of season we will return to Cape Town along ‘Route 62’, South Africa’s version of America’s ‘Route 66’.
Meals : Break Fast
Inclusion
- Returns AirFares From Heathrow.
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Tour in air-conditioned micro-buses or 18-seater mini-buses.
Professionally Escorted
- Discover the Garden Route with our professional Tour Guides.
- Rooms with private facilities, on a twin share basis.
- All accommodation is of a 3 star standard.
- 3 Breakfasts.
- 2 Lunches.
- 1 Dinner.
- Hotel porterage included.
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