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Holidays to Cape Town Tours Safaris in South Africa Stellenbosch Hermanus

Blue Train: Disabled Safari Holiday, South Africa + Cape Town (wheelchair)

Day 1
You will be met at Johannesburg Airport and transferred 2-hours through the rural North West Transvaal to the malaria-free Pilanesberg Game Reserve.
  
After checking into your game lodge, enjoy your first open-top game drive with a lodge ranger in this superb Big Five game reserve situated inside an extinct volcano. Hopefully see elephants, lions, antelope and a wide variety of other wildlife, before enjoying dinner in your warm African surroundings.
 
Note: You need upper-body strength for this safari, as you will need to be transferred into the front seat of the game viewing vehicle. If you cannot do this, enquire about a fully wheelechair accessible safari travelling in a closed vehicle with ramps, which needs to be pre-booked.
Days 2 To 3
Rise early when game viewing conditions are at their best, for a thrilling shared open-top game drive with your lodge ranger in the Pilanesberg Game Reserve. Hope to see several of the Big 5 - lion, elephant, buffalo, leopard and rhino - as well as many other animals before returning to your lodge for breakfast.
  
The rest of the morning is free to relax at your lodge or visit nearby Sun City, before setting out again in the late afternoon for another game drive. Hope to see hippo, kudu, antelope, waterbuck, warthogs, baboons and many other interesting species. Outstanding bird watching is also guaranteed.
  
After a beautiful African sunset, enjoy the balmy evening and pristine stars of the Milky Way as you have never seen them before – as well as the spectacular Southern Cross.
 
Note: You need some upper body strength for this safari, as you will need to be lifted into the front seat of the game viewing vehicle. Other safari alternatives are available, using an accessible vehicle, if you do not have upper body strength or if you are travelling with young children.
Day 4
Today enjoy a full day private tour of the beautiful city of Cape Town.
 
Weather permitting, we start by ascending Table Mountain by cable car to see one of the world's most famous views (alternatively we will drive up Signal Hill). We then drive around the city to see the key sights including the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront, City Hall, Greenmarket Square, Houses of Parliament, Bo Kaap, Castle of Good Hope, District Six and Sea Point.
 
After lunch (own account) we continue to beautiful Kirstenbosch Gardens, nestled on the eastern slopes of Table Mountain and regarded as one the most beautiful botanic gardens in the world. Bequeathed to the nation by Cecil John Rhodes, the garden was established 1913. There is an avenue of camphor trees, a beautiful protea and fynbos garden, useful plants garden, sculpture garden and a dell garden as well as a world class collection of indigenous South African flora. Wonderful summer sunset concerts are held in the gardens on Sunday evenings from December to March.
Day 5
Today your guide will collect you for a full day tour to the beautiful Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve.
  
Enjoy wonderful ocean views as we drive around the Cape Peninsula to naval Simonstown, where we visit the resident penguin colony at Boulders Beach.
 
We continue to Cape Point where we hope to see baboons, ostrich and perhaps even dolphins or whales in season (July to November). We take an accessible funicular ride up to the Old Lighthouse, before returning via spectacular Chapman’s Peak Drive to Hout Bay and Cape Town.
Day 6
Enjoy a full day tour through the renowned Stellenbosch Winelands, travelling through the scenic Franschhoek Valley where a handful of French Huguenot refugees started South Africa’s now famous wine industry.
 
We visit the historic university town of Stellenbosch and several different wine estates – sampling as we go.
 
After lunch at a good restaurant or wine estate (own account), enjoy some final wine tasting before we return to Cape Town.
Day 7
Transfer to Cape Town Airport for your flight home.