Cape Town, Franschhoek, Stanford, Knysna and Kruger.
We price the whole trip for your dates.
Request this journeyTen nights in the Cape by car, then four in the bushveld. Enough for a first trip without a rushed day.
Updated 15 Oct 2026
The picked stay is first. Ask for any of the others when you request the journey.
Table Mountain on the first clear morning, the drive to Cape Point and the penguins at Boulders, and the city’s food. Three nights is the least the peninsula deserves.
Fly into Cape Town. Pick up the hire car on your last morning here, not before: you will not want it in town.
Where to stay in Cape Town
Cape Town
Supports Friends of Table Mountain
The winelands valley an hour inland. Walk between the farms, eat a long lunch, and drive up the Franschhoek Pass late in the day for the view back down the valley.
Book the wine farm lunches ahead in summer.
The Cape Winelands
Franschhoek
Southern right whales come into Walker Bay from June to November, close enough to watch from the cliff path in Hermanus. Stanford is the quiet village across the lagoon, with the Klein River running past the end of the village.
Out of whale season the river, the fynbos reserves and the birds are the reason to stop.
Stanford
Stanford
Supports National Sea Rescue Institute
Lagoon, forest and beach. Walk in the Knysna forest, take a boat out to the Heads, and give a day to the Robberg peninsula at Plettenberg Bay.
Drop the car at George airport for the flight north.
The Garden Route
Knysna
Supports Revive Knysna
Two drives a day, early and late, and long quiet middays in between. The bush shows you what it will; nothing is promised, which is why the mornings are worth getting up for.
Fly home from Kruger Mpumalanga or Johannesburg. This is the only malaria area on the trip.
Kruger National Park
Hazyview
A share of every booking goes to the cause each host supports.
Send us your dates and who is coming. We check every night with the hosts, then send one priced plan. Accept it and we confirm every stay for you, with one payment.
Bird lists kept by the hosts: Pumula Lodge 4 Star Guesthouse Knysna, 80 species; Mdluli Safari Lodge, 224 species. A record, never a promise.
Request this journeyFor a first trip, yes, if you choose two regions rather than five. This plan gives the Cape ten nights and the bushveld four.
September to April suits the whole route: the Cape is warm and dry from November, and the Lowveld is green with young animals from late November. May to September is the dry season in Kruger, when the bush thins and game gathers at water, and the whale season on the Cape coast, but the Cape itself is cool and can be wet.
The Cape, the whale coast and the Garden Route are malaria-free. Kruger and the Lowveld are a malaria area, highest in the wet summer months. Speak to a travel clinic before you go, or ask us for the malaria-free family journey, which swaps Kruger for the Eastern Cape.
For your dates and your party. Several of these stays only quote on request, so we check every night with the hosts and send one priced plan, with flights, car hire and park fees set out alongside the stays.
Cape Town, Plettenberg Bay, Addo and Amakhala
7 to 14 nights
Cape Town, Victoria Falls and Chobe
7 to 10 nights
