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South Africa Tour Packages
4 tour packages across South Africa — each a fully-designed journey and a starting point, reworked around your dates, interests and travel style.
South Africa tour packages
Every one of these is a starting point we tailor entirely to you — dates, pace, stays and everything in between. Pricing terms
WildlifeSouth Africa Classic: Johannesburg, Kruger and Cape Town, 9 Nights
- 9 nights' hand-picked accommodation: 2 in Johannesburg, 3 near Hoedspruit and 4 in Cape Town
- Daily breakfast after arrival day; dinner at the lodge on the three Hoedspruit nights
- Full-day shared tour of Johannesburg, Soweto and the Apartheid Museum
Soweto and the Apartheid Museum on a full day in Johannesburg
FamilySouth Africa Garden Route and Cape Town: Tsitsikamma, Oudtshoorn and Route 62, 9 Nights
- 9 nights' hand-picked accommodation: 1 in Johannesburg, 1 in Gqeberha, 2 in Plettenberg Bay, 1 in Oudtshoorn and 4 in Cape Town
- Daily breakfast after arrival day; dinner on the two Plettenberg Bay nights
- Shared transfers and touring in an air-conditioned vehicle along the route
The suspension bridge over the Storms River Mouth in the Tsitsikamma forest
HoneymoonSouth Africa Honeymoon: Kruger Lodge, Garden Route Self-Drive and Cape Town, 10 Nights
- 10 nights' hand-picked accommodation: 1 in Johannesburg, 2 at a Greater Kruger lodge, 3 in Knysna and 4 in Cape Town
- Daily breakfast after arrival day; full board with local drinks for the two lodge nights; a farewell dinner in Cape Town
- Private airport transfers with meet-and-greet in Johannesburg and Cape Town
The Blyde River Canyon and the Panorama Route on the way to the bush
WildlifeSouth Africa Coast and Safari: Cape Town, the Garden Route and a Malaria-Free Eastern Cape Reserve, 10 Nights
- 10 nights' hand-picked accommodation: 4 in Cape Town, 1 in Oudtshoorn, 2 in Knysna and 3 in a tented camp on an Eastern Cape reserve
- Daily breakfast after arrival day; three dinners and one lunch in the Eastern Cape
- Shared transfers from Cape Town airport and to Gqeberha airport
Table Mountain by cableway and the Cape Peninsula with Cape Point and Boulders Beach
How long you need
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Two seasons, two halves of the country
The dry winter. Vegetation thins, animals concentrate at water and game viewing is at its most reliable. Mornings are genuinely cold in open vehicles. This is also whale season on the Western Cape coast.
Warm, dry and long-evening weather in Cape Town, the Winelands and along the Garden Route. Peak season over Christmas and New Year, when the Cape fills with domestic visitors and prices rise sharply.
The best compromise if you want both halves in one trip — decent game viewing before the bush dries out fully, and pleasant Cape weather without the summer peak or its prices.
Hot, green and the calving season, so plenty of young animals and excellent birding. Thicker bush makes spotting harder, and afternoon thunderstorms are common in the lowveld.
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Quoted in writing
Every journey is quoted individually and in writing before you commit, so you know what is included before you decide.
Designed around you
Each journey is a starting point. Dates, pace, stays and routing are reworked around how you actually want to travel.
South Africa entry — sort it before you fly
The Trusted Tour Operator Scheme, launched in January 2025 specifically to make travel from India and China easier, allows Indian tourists to enter visa-free for up to ninety days when the trip is booked through an approved tour operator, which handles the process on your behalf. The alternative is to apply online: Indian ordinary passport holders have been able to apply for an Electronic Travel Authorization or an eVisa since 12 February 2026, and a ZAR 500 processing fee for the ETA was adopted on 17 August 2026.
No visa on arrival This is the point to be clear about. Travellers who require an ETA or eVisa and arrive without one cannot obtain it at the airport and will be refused entry.
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Other tour packages across Africa — different countries, the same starting-point approach, and easy to combine with South Africa.
Newly AddedWildlifeKenya Safari
- 8 nights' hand-picked accommodation
- Daily breakfast
- Private airport & inter-city transfers
Three parks in one trip, chosen because they look and behave nothing like each other rather than to lengthen the route
CulturalCairo & the Nile — 7 Nights
- 7 nights' hand-picked accommodation
- Daily breakfast
- Private airport & inter-city transfers
The Giza plateau early, with the panorama point behind the pyramids for the scale of them
CulturalGrand Egypt + Abu Simbel — 9 Nights
- 9 nights' hand-picked accommodation
- Daily breakfast
- Private airport & inter-city transfers
Abu Simbel, cut into the rock by Ramesses II and moved wholesale in the 1960s
CulturalEgypt & the Red Sea — 10 Nights
- 10 nights' hand-picked accommodation
- Daily breakfast
- Private airport & inter-city transfers
The classic Nile route first, then four nights on the Red Sea to stop moving
WildlifeKenya Safari: Amboseli, Lake Naivasha and the Maasai Mara, 6 Nights
- 6 nights' hand-picked accommodation: 1 in Nairobi, 2 in Amboseli, 1 at Lake Naivasha and 2 in the Maasai Mara
- Dinner on arrival day; breakfast, lunch and dinner on days 2 to 6; breakfast on the last day
- Private 4x4 safari vehicle with a pop-up roof and an English-speaking driver-guide for the whole safari
A full day of game driving in Amboseli, with a picnic lunch out in the park
WildlifeKenya Rhinos and Rift Valley Lakes: Ol Pejeta, Naivasha and the Maasai Mara, 6 Nights
- 6 nights' hand-picked accommodation: 1 in Nairobi, 1 at Ol Pejeta, 2 at Lake Naivasha and 2 in the Maasai Mara
- Dinner on arrival day; breakfast, lunch and dinner on days 2 to 6; breakfast on the last day
- Private 4x4 safari vehicle with a pop-up roof and an English-speaking driver-guide for the whole safari
Ol Pejeta Conservancy, a leading black rhino sanctuary on the Laikipia plateau below Mount Kenya
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