QPP10W: Accessible Safari - Namibia + Cape Town

Day 1

You will be met at Windhoek Airport by your safari guide and transferred to your hotel.

Enjoy a short orientation tour of Windhoek with its charming German architecture, with balance of day at leisure to relax by the swimming pool under warm blue African skies.

Day 2

Today we travel northwards for 5-hours through starkly beautiful landscapes to one of Africa’s largest wildlife sanctuaries – the famous Etosha National Park.

Etosha owes its unique landscape to a vast shallow depression – the Etosha Pan. During the dry season it becomes an expanse of white cracked mud, shimmering with mirages and spiralling dust devils, with its open pans offering magnificent game viewing. Etosha is home to over a hundred different species of mammals, including cheetah, leopard, lion, elephant, rhino, giraffe, zebra and wildebeest.

Check into your accommodation near the entrance to Etosha National Park.

Days 3 and 4

Today is devoted to game viewing in Etosha National Park. We set out early each morning as the camp gates open (05h30 to 06h00 depending on the season), to take advantage of the best game viewing conditions of the day, returning for brunch around 11h00. The balance of the day is spent relaxing in camp, before we set out once again in search of game in the late afternoon.

Explore the vast Etosha Pan, which offer magnificent game viewing opportunities including springbok, oryx, black-faced impala and the small Damara dik-dik. A series of waterholes throughout the park guarantees rewarding game viewing, with Etosha being renowned for its vast arrays of plains game and its “great cats” which are more easily seen on the open pans.

Etosha is also a bird watchers paradise, with hundreds of recorded bird species and many migrants during the summer months. In the evening, enjoy the balmy weather and pristine stars of the Southern Sky and Milky Way, as you have never seen them before – including the spectacular Southern Cross.

Day 5

Depart Etosha and travel southwards to Windhoek.

We pass through the mining centre of Tsumeb, where a rich ore pipe is mined for copper, zinc, lead, silver and a variety of unusual crystals. We also pass Lake Otjikoto where in 1915 the retreating German forces dumped weapons to prevent them from falling into the hands of the South African Union Forces. Several of these weapons have been recovered and can be viewed at the Tsumeb Museum.

We travel through the garden-town of Otjiwarongo and make a short stop at the Kavango Craft Market in Okahandja.

Check in to your Windhoek hotel for overnight.

Day 6

Transfer to Windhoek Airport for your 2-hour flight to Cape Town.

You will be met at Cape Town airport by your Cape host and transferred to your luxury hotel. Check in, settle-in and relax in your magnificent surroundings.

Day 7

After a leisurely breakfast, today your host will collect you for a full day tour of Cape Town. Weather permitting, we start by ascend Table Mountain by cable car, to enjoy one of the world’s most famous views (wheel chair accessible).

Enjoy a tour through the Mother City, viewing sites of historical and architectural significance, and continue to beautiful Kirstenbosch Gardens, renowned for its fynbos and protea.

We complete our day with a visit to Hout Bay, where we enjoy a short boat trip to view Cape Fur seals at Seal Island (you will be lifted onto the boat in your wheelchair - not suitable for heavy or power chair).

Day 8

Today your host will collect you for a full day tour to the beautiful Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve.

At naval Simonstown we stop at Boulders Beach to view the resident penguin colony and continue to Cape Point where we hope to see ostrich, baboons and perhaps even dolphins or whales in season (August to November).

At Cape Point we take a funicular ride to the Old Lighthouse (wheelchair accessible), before returning via spectacular Chapman’s Peak Drive.

Day 9

Enjoy a full day tour to the Stellenbosch Winelands today, travelling through the scenic Franschhoek Valley where a handful of French Huguenot refugees started South Africa’s now famous wine industry.

Visit the historic university town of Stellenbosch including its Period House museum and one Wine Estate of your choice – sampling as you go! Enjoy a picnic lunch at a Wine Estate, with a second wine tasting on the way home!

Day 10

Enjoy a full day excursion to the village of Hermanus. From July to November, southern right and humpback whales come here to breed and this is considered the best location for land-based Whale Watching holidays in the world. Out of whale season, enjoy wine tasting and sightseeing in this small seaside village.

Alternatively take the ferry to Robben Island, the infamous prison home of Nelson Mandela – a very poignant experience. In the afternoon enjoy exploring the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront.

Day 11

Transfer to Cape Town Airport for your flight home.