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Breathe in ocean air, climb iconic mountains, walk with penguins, and dine under starry skies; this 4-Day Cape Explorder tour is a love letter to Cape Town, set out in four unforgettable chapters. From cable car summits to coastal road trips and a taste of African culture, it’s the perfect introduction to South Africa’s most iconic city.
Ideal for first-timers, short-stay travellers, or those just wanting to experience the Cape’s most memorable sights in a relaxed but well-curated way, this experience combines freedom, local flavour, and the flexibility to explore at your pace, with a few showstopper highlights thrown in.
This acts as an indication of the route of the tour, but the exact itinerary is subject to change and may, on occasion, run in reverse or in a different order to fit with the availability of activities.
Rate for the 2025 Season (11 Jan to 14 Dec 2025)
For convenience sake, these activities have already been reserved for all members on tour but are neither included nor compulsory. You can book and pay for these optional activities with your tour guide on the first day of the tour. In most cases, you can pay the activity provider directly. Please see the updated optional rates online on our website.
Duiker Island Cruise
Boulders Beach Reserve Entry
Cape Town Optional Activities – helicopter flips, yacht cruises, etc.
This combo tour package consists of more than one tour and also unguided ‘free time’ days in Cape Town.
A few days in Cape Town (unguided free time)
1 day outsourced Cape Point tour (guided with a possible different supplier)
Travel time: ±1 hr / ±30 km | Unguided
Welcome to the Mother City! Upon landing at Cape Town International Airport, a friendly transfer will whisk you to your accommodation in the city, your base for the next few days.
Today is your first free, unguided day. Whether you prefer to recharge or jump straight into the action, you’re free to wander as you wish.
You can head to the lively Long or Bree Streets to sample Cape Town’s foodie scene or take an Uber to Camps Bay for a cocktail and a sunset worth writing home about (some of the best spots to take in that view are The Twelve Apostles Hotel and Leopard Bar).
If you’re feeling extra adventurous, optional experiences like paragliding, helicopter flips, or city sightseeing bus tours can be pre-arranged. Cape Town and its surrounds are a hotbed of activity, although your arrival time in the city will determine what you are able to do on this day. Please let us know what you would like to do ahead of your arrival and keep in mind that all transfers to the activities will be at your own expense.
In the evening, you’ll be treated to a spectacular cultural experience with a GOLD African Dinner and Show. You’ll taste your way through a 14-dish meal full of African flavours, accompanied by traditional storytelling, music, puppetry and praise singing.
Overnight Stay: Garden Court Victoria Junction or similar (4-star)
Unguided, with included bus and cableway pass
With another full day free in Cape Town, you can use your included hop-on-hop-off bus pass and Table Mountain cableway ticket to plan your own adventure.
You can start the day by hopping aboard the open-top red bus, that’ll have you cruising past iconic neighbourhoods and taking in those outstanding panoramic views. The blue line will take you from the V&A Waterfront to the lush Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens, and the purple line will tempt you with wine tastings in Constantia, Cape Town’s original vineyard suburb. The red line rolls past Camps Bay and will take you to Table Mountain.
Weather permitting, a trip up the mountain aboard the Table Mountain Aerial Cableway is a must. The views from the summit are simply indescribable. While on the mountain, you can explore the walking trails, grab a snack, and maybe even catch a spontaneous song from your cable car guide on the descent.
As the sun sets, you can follow your cravings through the buzzing Cape Town culinary scene, which includes pretty much everything, from tapas bars to African fine dining.
Overnight Stay: Garden Court Victoria Junction or similar (4-star)
Travel time: ±8 hrs / ±150 km
*Subject to availability, a similar trip with a different supplier may be booked.
Today’s guided Cape Point Tour is a road trip through some of the most jaw-dropping scenery on Earth.
After an early morning pick-up from your Cape Town accommodation, you’ll head to Hout Bay, a small fishing village just north of Chapman’s Peak. Here you can go on a cruise to Duiker Island to meet the Cape’s resident fur seals, or you can spend some time browsing the Hout Bay market for local treasures.
Then, you’ll buckle up for a drive along Chapman’s Peak, known as Chappies by the locals, a winding masterpiece of engineering that clings to sheer cliffs above the roaring Atlantic. The views from the road are stunning and you’ll want to make sure that you have your camera nearby.
From there, you’ll head to the Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve, where you can hike to the iconic lighthouse, spot wild ostriches and bontebok, and breathe in the fresh ocean air where two mighty currents meet. This reserve is an especially precious stop for those with an interest in South Africa’s indigenous plants. While walking around here, you will see all sorts of fynbos species. You can also take a walk up to the lighthouse.
Your next stop is Simon’s Town and then Boulders Beach, where a tuxedoed colony of African penguins waddle, preen, and delight every visitor who stops here. From the boardwalk, you can watch the penguins up close without disturbing their natural groove.
By late afternoon, you’ll return to Cape Town.
Overnight Stay: Garden Court Victoria Junction or similar (4-star)
Travel time: variable | Unguided
On your final day, you can take it easy or go all out, as Cape Town is yours to enjoy at your leisure until departure.
You can spend the day browsing artisan stalls at Green Market Square, sipping your last flat white along the Sea Point Promenade, or exploring the always bustling V&A Waterfront.
Your included airport transfer will collect you in time for your onward flight, so try to schedule a late evening departure to truly make the most of your final day in the city.
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Many people don’t see the point in driving through a bushveld looking for animals, but there’s so much more to it. wild animals are seen as a nuisance in most inhabited areas, but if you’ve never seen the magic of animals in their natural habitat, untouched by humans, you’ve been missing out! looking at zoo animals in their enclosures might be considered nice, because you’re almost 100% guaranteed that you’ll see them, but that’s not how they behave in the wild. nothing beats the thrill of finding a pride of lions laying in the shade, or walking across the road right in front of you, and once you’ve felt the reverberations of an elephant’s trumpet through your bones, you’ll be hooked! our clients often come back for more, because you never know what you’re going to see next…
Every single one of our guides have a passion for the kruger park. we love waking up every morning and meeting new people, never mind sharing our love for the bushveld with them. we are highly experienced and have heaps of knowledge about the fauna and flora in the knp at our clients’ disposal. one of our best characteristics must be that we focus on small groups to give each safari trip the best chance of seeing the best sights that the knp has to offer. our safaris depart any day of the week to suit our clients’ busy schedules and will accommodate all your needs as best we can. visit our website for more information on our company…
We operate from hazyview and will collect you from any of the lovely holiday resorts, lodges or nearby locations. our vehicles depart at different times in different seasons… for full day or morning safaris, we leave at 5am in october to march and at 5h30am in april to september. for afternoon safaris, we leave at 13h00 pm in the afternoons. most of the wildlife in the park prefers hiding in the shade during the hot afternoons, so we highly recommend joining us for the earlier safaris to get the most out of your trip.
Anything to do with the word “game” whilst on a safari—like game drives or looking for game—all refers to wild animals in safari context. you might also encounter “game” on the menus of some traditional restaurants, which basically means that you’re ordering wild buck meat, or even warthog.
Even though the knp falls in a malaria area, most foreigners are pleasantly surprised at how few mosquitoes are actually encountered whilst on a safari. these mosquitoes breed in water, and even in the middle of our rainy season in december, we don’t consider them to be a relentless menace. despite what you might have been told, mosquitoes are not a plague in the knp and although we are always cautious about malaria, the locals in and around the knp do not run around with repellents all the time.
If you’re really worried and consider yourself or anyone joining you on the safari to be particularly susceptible to this rare disease, be sure to consult your gp. there are many places in the park where you can buy mosquito repellent containing deet—this is the most vital ingredient in insect repellents as it has been proven to repel the malaria-carrying mosquitoes effectively.
Even though the kruger park is basically a giant protected bushveld and sparsely populated, there are many little “towns” and camps where you can find anything from grocery stores, souvenir stores, petrol stations and much more.
As mentioned before, there are many places in the knp where we can stop over for lunch where you can buy take-away food or choose to have a meal at the various restaurants. we usually have lunch at skukuza, but this is not set in stone.
Two words: comfortable and practical. seeing as you’re going to be driving around for the majority of the time on your safari experience, it is advisable that you wear clothes that are not too tight and not too hot. winters can be cold, so check the forecast beforehand, but summers are the opposite—just take a jacket with you in case it gets chilly, and stay away from high heels, ladies! we might stop on top of rocky mountains to give you an in-person taste of the spectacular views in the knp. trust me, it’s spine-chilling raw beauty.
You’ll be surprised at the true meaning of this term—it actually refers to the five most feared animals in the bush. they are extremely dangerous to hunt on foot and also rather rare. the big 5 consists of african lions, leopard, elephant, buffalo, and rhino. it really is a tourist attraction and many safari companies utilise this term as a major marketing strategy.
We cannot guarantee that there will be sightings of all five animals in the big 5, but we can guarantee that we will do our best to find them. elephants are massive, this is true, but in the lush untouched bushveld of the kruger, if they don’t want to be seen, they can easily disappear behind the trees mere meters away from you. they tend not to be too shy, unlike leopards. rhinos are extremely scarce, but our guides know where their usual grazing spots are, and a pride of lions would attract so much attention that our radios would notify us if there’s a sighting nearby. nevertheless, you are guaranteed to see a very diverse variety of animals in the kruger national park.
Children under 8 are more than welcome on privately hired open vehicles, yes. this is purely out of consideration for our other clients who do not have children and might not have the patience for their unique outlook and excitement about each wild animal we encounter. all children under 12 have discounted safari rates, as well as half-price conservation fees to enter the kruger national park.
You can visit our website to view the current prices for our safaris, make a booking online to receive an invoice, and then make an online payment before the safari takes place, or contact kurt safari for any enquiries you might have regarding other payment options.
I cannot even begin to list the most amazing experiences we’ve had whilst on safaris in the knp! there are too many to count, each encounter very different but equally remarkable. if you consider the size of the knp and how many animals call it their home, you can only begin to imagine the things we’ve seen—from a ride of lionesses to the birth of a brand-new baby giraffe. each time our jaws drop at the splendour of mother nature. you will have to come and see it for yourself.
Placing yourself in the middle of a nature reserve where there are numerous predators and dangerous animals could sound pretty intimidating, but rest assured, kurt safari guides all have in-depth knowledge about the behaviour of these animals and would never put your life in danger. elephants can be aggressive if they have young ones to protect and even lone elephant bulls have charged at cars that don’t know when to back away, but obtaining injuries from wild animals whilst on a safari is very rare and you need not be worried—just enjoy the ride.
