Day 1: Welcome to South Africa

VIP Meet and Greet-Cape Town International Airport

The journey begins at the aircraft door, where a dedicated greeter meets you with a paging board and guides you through immigration, baggage collection, and customs with seamless efficiency and personal warmth.

Cape Town is waiting, and the arrival sets the tone for everything that follows: attentive, smooth, and entirely without friction.

Day 2: Cape Town City Tour

Cape Town City Tour including Cable Car: Private Full Day

Cape Town opens up magnificently on a private full-day exploration that takes you from the summit of Table Mountain to the oldest building in South Africa, with everything worth seeing in between.

The cable car ascent is the perfect beginning, the city spreading below in its extraordinary setting of mountain, ocean, and peninsula as the views from the top reframe the entire geography of where you are.

The Castle of Good Hope and the Slave Lodge place Cape Town’s layered history in vivid, human context, and your Signature Guide brings the full story to life with knowledge and genuine passion for the city they know intimately. Private vehicle, entrance fees, and refreshments included throughout.

Day 3: Cape Winelands Day Tour

Winelands Full Day Tour (Private)

An hour from Cape Town, the landscape opens into one of the most beautiful wine regions on earth, valley after valley of vineyard and Cape Dutch heritage estate framed by dramatic mountain ranges and bathed in the particular quality of southern African light that makes everything look like a painting.

Today is entirely private and entirely your own, a personal guide and private vehicle taking you through up to three standard tastings or a combination of cellar tours and master tastings tailored to your preferences.

The Winelands are as much about the setting and the stories as the wine itself, and the estates here have been producing world-class bottles for nearly four centuries.

Long lunches, beautiful architecture, and the kind of unhurried, generous hospitality that the Cape does better than almost anywhere.

Day 4: Free Day to Explore Cape Town Beaches and Bars

Cape Town Beaches and Nightlife

November in Cape Town is the city at its glorious best, the long summer days beginning in earnest and the whole city leaning into the season with an ease and warmth that is entirely infectious.

Today is yours without agenda or obligation. The beaches of Camps Bay and Clifton are among the most beautiful urban beaches in the world, the Twelve Apostles rising behind them and the cold Atlantic sparkling ahead.

The V&A Waterfront delivers excellent seafood, world-class shopping, and one of the finest harbour settings anywhere. The city’s neighbourhood bars and restaurants reward wandering without a plan.

Or simply find a terrace, order something cold, and let Cape Town do what it does to everyone who gives it an unstructured afternoon.

Day 5: Food Tour – Cape Town

Cape Town Essentials Food Tour – Departs at Noon

Cape Town’s food scene has quietly become one of the most exciting and genuinely distinctive on the African continent, and this afternoon walking tour is the best possible way into it.

Moving through the city streets with an expert guide, the tour connects celebrated landmarks with the kind of hidden neighbourhood gems that only a local knows to find, five food tastings and four drink tastings taking you through the full range of the city’s culinary character.

Cape Malay spice and warmth, contemporary cooking of real ambition, the street food and the fine dining that sit side by side in this city without any sense of contradiction.

The history of Cape Town is woven through every stop, making this as much a cultural education as a gastronomic one. A wonderful way to spend a final Cape Town afternoon.

Day 6: Cape Town to Londolozi and into the Greater Kruger

Cape Town – Londolozi 

Today, Cape Town gives way to the wild, and the transition is one of the great pleasures of this journey.

A transfer to the airport, a connecting flight through Johannesburg, and an onward connection to the Kruger region, and by mid-afternoon, the bush has begun to assert itself most immediately and irresistibly.

That first warm breeze carrying the scent of wild sage through the vehicle window. The red dust of the track. The sudden awareness that the world here operates on entirely different terms and that those terms are deeply, immediately appealing. Londolozi receives its guests with the warmth and ease that has made it one of the great names in safari hospitality, and the suite, when you reach it, is everything a bush retreat should be.

Depending on arrival time, a late afternoon game drive offers the first taste of the Sabi Sand in its finest hours, the bush alive and golden and full of possibility.

The evening returns to camp for dinner under the stars, the night sounds beginning, the city a very long way away.

Day 7:  Londolozi Safari

First Full Day at Londolozi

Into the Rhythm of the Bush

The pre-dawn start on the first full safari morning is one of travel’s great pleasures, the bush cool and absolutely alive in the hour before sunrise, the light arriving slowly and turning the savanna from silver to gold as the drive moves deeper into the Sabi Sand.

Londolozi’s guides carry a depth of knowledge about this specific landscape that transforms every drive from a wildlife encounter into a genuine education, the tracks and behaviour and ecology of the reserve unfolding through expert commentary that makes the experience richer with every kilometre.

Return to camp for a breakfast of genuine quality as the morning warms, then the long, unhurried middle of the day at your own pace, the suite’s veranda offering its own quieter theatre of birdlife and bush atmosphere.

The late afternoon drive as the temperatures soften and the predators begin to move. Sundowners in the Sabi Sand as the sky does what the African sky does at this hour.

Dinner at the fire. The bush is settling into its night sounds around the camp. The Londolozi rhythm, and it is extraordinary from the very first day.

Day 8:  Londolozi Safari

Going Deeper

Londolozi, Day Two

The second day at Londolozi brings a different and richer quality of engagement. The eye is sharper now, the ear more attuned to the sounds that matter, the guide’s commentary landing with greater depth because the context of the previous day has begun to accumulate into something that feels like genuine understanding.

Morning drives at Londolozi build on each other in this way, each one more layered than the last, the landscape becoming familiar enough to read and wild enough to still surprise at every turn.

A walking safari, where conditions allow, brings an entirely different dimension to the experience, the bush at eye level and on foot, producing a quality of presence and alertness that every guest tends to describe as one of the highlights of the entire journey.

The evening fire. The shared stories of the day. Sleep arrives easily in the Sabi Sand.

Day 9:  Londolozi Safari

Londolozi – Its Own Place

Londolozi, Day Three

By the third day the Londolozi rhythm has become entirely natural and entirely beloved. The early alarm is welcomed without hesitation, the morning drive anticipated from the moment of waking, the return to camp for breakfast a pleasure that the quality of Londolozi’s kitchen makes entirely deserved.

The Sabi Sands is one of the finest wildlife areas in Africa, its unfenced border with Kruger, its open vehicle access, and the sheer density and variety of its resident wildlife producing a consistency of exceptional sightings that very few reserves anywhere on earth can match.

Today is a day to follow whatever the bush presents with complete attention and complete gratitude. A leopard moving through the riverine thicket. Lion on a kill in the early light. A breeding herd of elephants crossing the road with the unhurried authority of animals that know exactly whose landscape this is.

The afternoon light on the open savanna. Another sundowner stop chosen with the quiet expertise that Londolozi’s guides bring to everything.

Day 10:  Londolozi A Final Morning In The Wild

A Final Morning in the Wild

Londolozi, Last Day

The last day at Londolozi carries the particular quality of heightened awareness that comes from knowing that the bush is about to give way to the world again.

The morning drive takes on the character of a deeply attentive farewell, the landscapes and animals of the Sabi Sand encountered one final time with eyes and senses that four days in the wild have sharpened considerably.

Londolozi leaves its guests with the feeling of a place only partially understood and entirely loved, which is the mark of somewhere genuinely exceptional rather than merely spectacular.

A final afternoon at the camp, a last sundowner in the golden Sabi Sand light, and the warmth of a farewell from a team that has made every moment of this stay feel genuinely cared for.

Day 9:  Londolozi Safari to Johannesburg

Londolozi – Johannesburg

A morning transfer from Londolozi to the regional airport and a flight onward to Johannesburg, South Africa’s largest and most energetic city, arriving at The Peech Boutique Hotel in the leafy northern suburbs with the afternoon ahead.

The Peech is a beautifully considered retreat, its garden and calm interiors providing exactly the right kind of elegant decompression after days in the wild. Johannesburg reveals itself gradually and rewards those who approach it with genuine curiosity, its layers of history, creativity, and extraordinary human resilience making it one of the most compelling cities on the continent.

The afternoon is unhurried and yours, a long lunch on the terrace, a cocktail in the garden, or simply the pleasure of a beautiful space in which to let the day find its own shape.

Day 10: Johannesburg

Half Day Soweto and Apartheid Museum

Johannesburg’s history is one of the great and complicated stories of the twentieth century, and today engages with it honestly, deeply, and with the expert guidance that makes the experience genuinely meaningful.

The Soweto tour moves through one of the most historically resonant urban landscapes in the world, the streets and landmarks where the struggle against apartheid was lived, fought, and ultimately won: the Hector Pieterson Memorial, Mandela House, Desmond Tutu’s home, and the Regina Mundi Church, each carrying the weight of events that changed the course of a nation.

The Apartheid Museum that follows is one of the finest museums anywhere in Africa, its design and curation placing the full arc of South Africa’s modern history before the visitor with a directness and humanity that is impossible to experience without being profoundly moved.

To have stood on Table Mountain, watched a leopard in the Sabi Sand, and then walked through the Apartheid Museum in the same journey is to hold the full, extraordinary complexity of this country in your hands.

Included: Entrance fees to the Hector Pieterson Memorial and Museum, Mandela House Museum, and the Apartheid Museum. Private vehicle and English-speaking guide throughout.

Day 13: Depart Johannesburg

Farewell, South Africa 

Transfer to OR Tambo International Airport

South Africa sends its guests home in the way that only truly great destinations manage, with a quiet certainty that the journey has delivered something lasting.

Over a final breakfast, the memories arrange themselves naturally: the light on Table Mountain at first morning, the wine on a Winelands terrace with the mountains behind it, the leopard moving through the golden Sabi Sand afternoon, the stillness of the Apartheid Museum and the weight of what it holds.

South Africa gives generously and honestly to every traveller who comes to it with open eyes, and what it gives does not fade quickly.

A private transfer to OR Tambo International Airport for onward international connections. Travel well, and come back soon. South Africa will be waiting.

Accommodation on This Tour

Accommodation overview: Where you will be staying on this tour.

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