Nine-Day Cape Town and Safari Experience

Nine-Day Cape Town and Safari Experience

Experience the Cosmopolitan city of Cape Town and the tranquillity of the African Bush.

This 9-day experience includes three nights in Cape Town at 4 star B&B accommodation and 4 nights at an exclusive private lodge in the Pilanesberg National Park.

Three days are spent exploring beautiful Cape Town highlights such as Table Mountain, Cape of Good Hope and the Winelands with a private guide. Your next destination is spent in the tranquillity of the African bush for 5 days in the Pilanesberg National Park. 8 Nights/ 9 Days.

Highlights

• Spend 3 nights in Cape Town at the 4-star accommodation
• 3 Days touring the highlights of the city with a private tour guide
• Transfer to Cape Town International Airport for flight to OR Tambo Airport Johannesburg
• Collected and transferred to a tranquil luxury Safari Lodge in the Pilanesberg National Park
• 4 Nights in a luxurious game lodge
• Visit Sun City. Transport to be arranged by the lodge (for own account)
• Transferred back to OR Tambo Airport
• Overnight at a hotel near OR Tambo Airport (optional – depending on departure flight out)
• Departure flight back to your destination.

Included

• All Transfers
• Transport in Cape Town, Fuel, Toll Roads and bottled water in vehicle
• Private tour guide in Cape Town x3 days touring
• Entrance fees to sights in Cape Town
• Flight to and from OR Tambo International Airport
• Accommodation at 4-star accommodation in Cape Town. Bed and breakfast
• Accommodation in a luxurious Game Lodge for 4 nights. X2 Game Drives each day
• Bed, Dinner and breakfast at Game Lodge
• Accommodation at the hotel at OR Tambo Airport the night before your departure (optional and depending on the time of your departure flight)

Not Included

• Personal Expenses
• Entrance fees not mentioned in inclusions
• Alcohol, Food, Beverages and Lunch at Game Lodge
• Dinners and lunches in Cape Town
• Hot Air Ballooning in Pilanesberg
• Day at Sun City (Own cost)
• Bird Walks extra wildlife excursions
• Spa treatments
• External flights
• Travel and Health Insurance

About the Pilanesberg Nature Reserve

Named after a Tswana Chief who went by the Name ‘Pilane’.

The park was named after a Tswana chief who went by the name ‘Pilane’. The northern part of Pilanesberg National Park was originally owned by the Bakgatla – ba – Kgafela tribe (also known as the Bakgatla tribe). The southern area of the park was formerly a set of farms owned by local farmers in the 1860s and they were responsible for the development of the Mankwe Dam in the reserve. The Government during the 1960s under the apartheid regime then bought these farms in the south of the park. The Bakubung tribe decided to settle on this land, arriving from the nearby town of Ventersdorp. This land was then passed onto Bophuthatswana (an area set aside for members of a specific ethnicity – ‘Bophuthatswana’ means gathering of the Tswana people).

Now was the time for the re-introduction of wildlife into the area and the conversion of Pilanesberg into a game reserve. Chief Tsidmane Pilane from the Bakgatla tribe agreed to the inclusion of a mountainous region owned by them, to be included in the new reserve. Families were moved to a new town to the east of the reserve in an agreement with tribal authority. These are the stages leading up to what we observe today as the Pilanesberg Game Reserve.