Cape Town, Garden Route and "Big 5" Self Drive Tour

Our South African self drive tour allows you to travel as you please,
but with the benefit of hand-picked accommodation, booked in advance.

Our self-drive tours allow you to travel in a hire car from a leading company such as Avis, Budget, Europcar or Hertz and use our experience to see the best of South Africa and stay in excellent affordable accommodation.

Our booking service is free and we supply a map and your choice of guide book.

To book this tour E-Mail info@nmbtours.com or use this link:- Fifth Avenue Adventure Tours

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Knysna Lagoon at the heart of the Garden Route

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This Cape Town tour starts in Cape Town and tours the Garden Route through magnificent countryside to a South African Game Reserve.

Your accommodation is in luxury guest houses on a bed and breakfast basis. With 2 people sharing all accommodation is en suite and they all have swimming pools.

 

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South Africa is an ideal country for self drive car hire. To hire a car in South Africa is like stepping back 30 years.

The roads are uncongested few motorways just good old fashioned A roads. From Port Elizabeth to the Tsitsikamma National Park is 100 miles 160 km's there is little traffic, no traffic lights and at legal speeds the journey is less than an hour and a quarter.

The roads are well maintained, we drive on the left hand side of the road and petrol is much cheaper than in the UK.

Day 1.

Transfer from your Cape Town flight. We will collect you and take you to Tintagel Guest House. Tintagel is in trendy Kloof Street, a 15-minute walk from central Cape Town, either through the beautiful seventeenth century oak-lined Government Avenue and Company Gardens, or via the bohemian Long Street with its vibrant night-life. .
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Day 2.

At leisure in Cape Town.

Cape town is one of the world's greatest cities and has an exciting nightlife and excellent inexpensive restaurants.

You can hike or take the cable car up table mountain, go to the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront or take a boat trip to Robben Island where Nelson Mandela was held as prisoner for 27 years.

Table Mountain - a stunning site on a Self Drive South Africa Tour  
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Day 3.

We include a day trip to the fishing village of Hout Bay and the Cape of Good Hope Nature reserve, this will be with a specialist Cape Town guide.

Day 4.

The rental car will be delivered to Tintagel Guest House. Leave for a tour of the wine growing district, stop overnight in the village of Franschhoek. South Africa makes great red wine. You will stay in a cottage in one of the vineyards. Naturally you will get the chance to sample the wine and have a tour of the vineyard.

The Victoria & Alfred Waterfront: a must for all Self Drive South African Tours.  
Day 5. Onwards to Mossel Bay where you can take a walk around the fishing village, visit the Diaz Museum or go for a cage dive where you would be lowered into the water wearing breathing apparatus, you should then come face to face with a great white. Do you dare?
The Great White, one of the "Big Seven"   Shark diving - pure adrenalin!

Day 6.

Travel to Knysna where you will stay overnight in the town which is in the heart of the South African Lake District.

Day 7.

Explore Knysna and Plettenberg Bay before moving on to the Tsitsikamma National Park. Overnight in Storms River at the entrance of the park.
Knysna lagoon - a paradise  
Day 8.Choose form a number of optional activities: for those brave enough, the worlds highest bungee jump with a drop of 216 metres, black water tubing down Storms River which we heavily recommend, enjoy some of the magic walks in the Tsitsikamma National Park, take a tree top canopy tour suspended in the giant Outeniqua Yellowwood trees, or go abseiling, mountain biking, horse riding, snorkeling or just take afternoon tea at the rest camp and enjoy the stunning views.
Depart for Port Elizabeth where you will stay at Fifth Avenue Beach House, which is located 50 meters from Port Elizabeth's Hobie Beach and a short walk to the Boardwalk which has good restaurants and a casino.

Day 9. The Addo Elephant National Park and Award winning Bushman Sands Game Reserve.

This park offers the densest population of elephants in Africa and had lions reintroduced in 2003. The park is home to numerous other species, including zebra, wildebeest, rhino, water buffalo, kudu, numerous antelope species, monkeys, aardvark, jackal, meerkats and the flightless dung beetle. We then visit the Bushman Sands Game Reserve and take a three hour game drive in an open Land Rover where we should see all of the “Big 5”. Evening meal will be in an outdoor boma restaurant where you will be served a safari meal.

 

Award-winning Bushman Sands Game Reserve

 

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Day 10.

You will have the chance to take a further game drive prior to breakfast, before returning to Port Elizabeth. In the evening we include a township Shebeen tour, this will be with a specialist township guide who will take you to see the other side of Africa.

Day 11.

Final morning in Port Elizabeth. Drop-off of your car at Port Elizabeth airport.

No Garden Route tour is complete without a township tour


Price for this itinerary based on 2 people sharing is 8,500 ZAR per person using a group B car which is a Toyota Corolla or equivalent with air conditioning or 10,000 ZAR per person using a BMW 318i Touring.

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Group B car Toyota Corolla.
We provide the full range of cars for our self drive South African Tours .
BMW 318i Touring.


Included in the tour price:-

Map and guide book of South Africa

Unlimited mileage car hire

Full insurance with nil excess subject to car hire terms and conditions


Day 1
Collection from Cape Town airport. Overnight accommodation at Tintagel Guest House.


Day 2
Breakfast at Tintagel Guest House.

Day 3
Breakfast at Tintagel Guest House. Escorted tour to Hout Bay and the Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve including entrance fee to the reserve.

Day 4
Breakfast at Tintagel Guest House. Rental car delivered to Tintagel Guest House. Accommodation in vineyard in Franschhoek.

Day 5
Breakfast in Franschhoek, overnight accommodation at the Old Post Office Tree in Mossel Bay, car hire.

Day 6
Breakfast at Old Post Office Tree in Mossel Bay, overnight accommodation at guest house in Knysna, car hire.

Day 7
Breakfast in Knysna, overnight accommodation at the Armagh Guest House, car hire.


Day 8.
Breakfast at the Armagh in Storms River, accommodation at Fifth Avenue Beach House, car hire.

Day 9
Breakfast and 3 hour game drive at Bushman Sands Private Game Reserve. Evening safari meal+accommodation at Bushman Sands.

Day 10
Morning game drive, evening township tour including traditional meal. Accommodation at Fifth Avenue Beach House.

Day 11
Breakfast and departure to Port Elizabeth airport.


Excluded:

Car hire deposit 2000 ZAR

Telephone calls
Bar account
Items of personal nature
Gratuities

Fines and vehicle damage not covered by insurance, subject to terms and conditions of hire car company.
Items not mentioned above.
South African Touring Services Association

We are a member of SATSA (South African Touring Services Association) Registration number 927. This binds us to a strict code of ethics, and confirms we have complied with stringent legal and insurance requirements. Booking with a SATSA member ensures that your trip to South Africa is guaranteed to be of the highest standard.

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