Rates :
2 persons on tour: R 24 350.00 per person sharing
3-4 persons on tour: R 17 100.00 per person sharing
Minimum two persons
Maximum 4 persons
Tour includes:
4 days guided tour, 4×4 safari vehicle, fuel, guide
3 nights accommodation
Entrance/conservation fee
Community levy fees
Marine Tour
Meals as per itinerary
Bottled water
Day 1, Night 1
Port Elizabeth, Algoa Bay and Addo Elephant National Park
7:30 am pick up at your place of residence in Port Elizabeth. We start the morning on the protected waters of Port Elizabeth’s Algoa Bay searching for Dolphins, Seals, Sharks and the seasonal Humpback and Southern Right Whales.
We circumnavigate St Croix Island for a close up view of a large breeding colony of African Penguins.
We return to the harbour for a satisfying light lunch at the restaurant.
After lunch, we board the tour vehicle and depart for the malaria free Addo Elephant National Park for exciting game drives, scanning the thickets for the more traditional members of the BIG 5.
The reserve is famous for its population of close to 700 African Elephants, herds of Buffalo, Lions and Leopard amongst the many species of Antelope, Zebra and Warthog, as well as the rich and diverse bird and reptile life that inhabit this expanded National Park, one of the most popular in South Africa.
After entering, we check in and immediately start our game viewing experience searching for the many and diverse creatures in the thickets and on the open plains while learning about the habitat in which they live.
Arriving at the main camp, we check into our accommodation. After relaxing, we again prepare for an exciting game drive before dinner at the restaurant and a well-deserved rest, accompanied by the sounds of the African night.
Overnight Addo Elephant National Park cottage/chalet, lunch, dinner, bed and breakfast
Day 2, Night 2
Greater Addo Elephant National Park, Kabouga 4×4 Section
Wake up and get a late breakfast at the park restaurant before depart for the Kabouga 4×4 section of this magnificent National Park. We travel via the picturesque town of Kirkwood before entering the rugged northern area of the Greater Addo Elephant National Park. This is a unique experience through this remote area and one will meet with few, if any, other tourists.
After checking in, we travel through increasingly rough terrain, keeping an eye out for species such as Warthog and Eland, Red Hartebeest, Klipspringer and Zebra as well as the stately Kudu, the males, with their huge horns blending into the background.
We spend the day exploring the area before heading for our accommodation in the remote Kabouga cottage for the night and a traditional braai under the African starlit sky.
Overnight Greater Addo National Park, cottage, dinner (braai), bed and breakfast
Day 3, Night 3
Greater Addo 4 x 4 Kabouga Section
After a hearty breakfast, we board the tour vehicle and continue heading north through changing scenery. We stop at scenic viewpoints between challenging slopes through which we need to negotiate the Landcruiser. We summit at the top of the Zuurberg Mountain offering huge vistas both to the south towards the coast and north into the Little Karoo, Lake Darlington and beyond.
From the summit, we start descending into the Little Karoo, where we keep a watch for Ostrich, Zebra and the possibility of sighting a rare Black Rhino before reaching Lake Darlington.
Here, we unpack our picnic hampers on the lakeshore for a well-deserved late lunch before making our way back to the main rest camp in the Addo Elephant National Park.
If time allows, we return via the old Wagon Pass and Ann’s Villa, an Inn and Cartwright’s Workshop on the northern slope of the Zuurberg pass. During the diamond rush in the 1870s, Ann’s Villa was perfectly based for the blacksmith, wheelwright, bakery and shop.
There we find the Blacksmith Museum with its original equipment and the shop from 1864 before travelling up the historical Zuurberg Pass, a road built in the mid 1800s to connect Port Elizabeth, at the coast, with the far off diamond fields in Kimberley and the Johannesburg gold fields.
We head back to the Addo Elephant National Park main camp for dinner at the restaurant and a well-deserved nights’ rest after a long day in the saddle.
Overnight Addo main camp, chalet/cottage, picnic lunch, dinner, bed and breakfast
Day 4
Addo Elephant National Park and Woody Cape Dune Fields
Early morning wake up for coffee, tea and rusks and depart for a game drive in the tour vehicle, viewing a wide variety of african big game in these vast thickets and plains.
This is the best time to catch the predators wandering the thickets before they lie up for the day. The awesome Lion live side by side with Warthog, Zebra, Kudu, Eland and Red Hartebeest in this 48 thousand hectare section of the National Park.
Returning to the rest camp, we get a late breakfast at the park restaurant before checking out. After packing up, we leave on a game drive, making our way out of the Park to continue to the lovely remote Woody Cape dune fields on the north eastern shore of Algoa Bay.
Woody Cape is the eastern most point of Algoa Bay, one of the largest inlet bays on the continent and once home to the first nation, the Khoikhoi people when they inhabited this area thousands of years ago.
We start with a walk in the expansive dune fields with uninterrupted views of the Indian Ocean and Bird Island, explore Khoikhoi middens: ancient heaps of millions of discarded seashells on this remote but awe-inspiring shoreline.
Wandering through the shaded dune forest accompanied by the song of the rich forest birdlife while Vervet Monkeys climb overhead.
We then return to Port Elizabeth and end off a memorable tour.
Tour includes:
Not included:
Rates :
2 persons on tour: R 24 350.00 per person sharing
3-4 persons on tour: R 17 100.00 per person sharing
Minimum two persons
Maximum 4 persons
Single supplement applies
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