CAPE TO DELTA SAFARI

Cape Town:

• Hello and welcome to Africa! Your safari adventure starts right here – with some sumptuous scenery (yup, tonight’s hotel is within arm’s reach of the V&A Waterfront). Once you’ve taken your pics, dropped off your bags and heard all about what to expect from your Trip Manager, we’ll kick things off in style with a walkabout dinner.

Waterfront Breakwater Lodge (or similar)

Cape Town:

• Our time in Cape Town is dedicated to sightseeing and today is no exception! We’ll start at the very top with a cable car ride up Table Mountain, followed by a city tour of Cape Town’s key sights and historical attractions. After that, the rest of the day is yours. We recommend the V&A Waterfront (SA’s most visited attraction). You’ll also have the option to join our Township Tour & Amy Foundation Lunch, which gives you a locally guided insight into life during Apartheid. Tonight, you’ll get to know your new pals in the best way possible – with food, drinks and music in our MasterChef-style cooking class.

Waterfront Breakwater Lodge (or similar)

Included Meals: Breakfast

Included Experience:

• Visit the V&A Waterfront
• Take a Cable Car up Table Mountain

• Cape Town City Tour

Additional Cost Applies:

• Take a Township Tour MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experience
• Cape Town Cooking Class & Dinner

Cape Town:

• This is your day to take advantage of Cape Town’s myriad local excursions – after breakfast of course. Our fav is a scenic drive along the cliffs of Chapman’s Peak and down to Cape Point – the South-Western tip of Africa. In the afternoon, we’ll stop off at Boulders Beach to admire a colony of adorable African penguins – with a chance to go kayaking with them too! What next? Well, you can’t go wrong with wine tasting (and a view) to round off an incredible day touring the “fairest Cape in all the world.”

Waterfront Breakwater Lodge (or similar)

Included Meals: Breakfast

Additional Cost Applies:

• Peninsula and Penguins MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experience
• Vineyards and Views

Cape Town:

• Rise and shine. Today, we have a (very early) flight to Johannesburg, the city of Gold, where our first port of call will be the Kruger National Park.

Via Johannesburg:

• The Savannah is calling. We’ve got no time to waste! We’ll hop straight onto our coach and begin our journey through South Africa’s country side to Kruger.

Kruger National Park:

• Yup, it’s safari time! We’ll enter this wildlife Eden (the size of a small country) in the afternoon for a sunset game drive, and then make our way to the exclusive Contiki Safari Camp on the banks of the Sabie River. This Special Stay includes canvas tents, mattresses and linens – all set up in time for our arrival! We’ll spend tonight gathered round the open campfire, gazing up at the stars and listening to lions in the distance. 5 star accommodation? More like 5000 star accommodation.

Contiki Safari Camp, Lower Sabie (or similar)

Included Meals: Breakfast

Included Experience:

• Take a Sunset Game Drive in Kruger MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experience

Kruger National Park:

• Today we’re up bright and early for our first taste of the fresh morning air. We’ll start with a sunrise safari – just in time to catch Africa’s elusive predators finishing off their nocturnal hunt. At midday, you’ll have the chance to relax back at the camp: you can visit the local shop, take a dip in the pool or visit the nearby restaurant where you can look out over the Sabie River and watch as the animals come to quench their thirst (yup, it’s preddy special.) This afternoon, it’s back to the safari vehicles for a sunset game drive and another chance to see the Big Five and more. Tonight back at camp, we’ll tuck into a traditional South African braai or BBQ, complete with local sides and desserts.

Contiki Safari Camp, Lower Sabie (or similar)

Included Meals: Breakfast

Included Experience:

• Join an Anti-Poaching Talk MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experience

Additional Cost Applies:

• Sunrise and Sunset Game Drives in Kruger
• Enjoy a Traditional African Feast

Kruger National Park:

• Rise & shine, explorers! Especially if you wanna choose to take the sunrise game drive (more game drives = more chances of ticking everything off that list). Or you could always choose to sleep in and catch a late brekkie. The game of hide and seek then continues one last time as we head back into the park, keeping our eyes open for any wildlife that’s evaded us so far (come on cheetah… where are you) and bid farewell to Kruger.

Johannesburg:

• We’ll head off to Johannesburg this afternoon. Order of business? Crash at the hotel before we fly to Victoria Falls in the morning!

Sunrock Guesthouse (or similar)

Included Meals: Breakfast

Included Experience:

• Take a Morning Game Drive at Kruger

Additional Cost Applies:

• Take a Sunrise Game Drive at Kruger

Johannesburg:

• This morning we’ll drive to the airport to catch our flight up to Victoria Falls.

Victoria Falls:

• We start off with the number one attraction around – the Falls themselves! Hike along the Victoria Falls, one of the Seven Natural Wonders and the largest waterfall in the world. You might want to pack your raincoat, as during certain times of the year you can get drenched from the rising spray, giving the falls its local name: ‘The smoke that thunders’.This afternoon, you’ll have the chance to jump, zipline or swing off the famous bridge connecting Zimbabwe and Zambia over the Zambezi River.

  Please note: From January to June this trip puts you in the Victoria Falls Waterfront Hotel, Zambia, with a riverside deck and bar that overlooks the spray of the thunderous falls. Travelling from July to December? Don’t worry, you’re not missing out: we’ll put you up in the Shearwater Explorers Village, Zimbabwe, just 400m from the falls – with bohemian cafes, curio markets and swimming pools to explore. It’s a win win, basically.

Shearwater Explorer’s Village (or similar)

Included Meals: Breakfast

Included Experience:

• Marvel at Victoria Falls

Additional Cost Applies:

• Bungee Jump
• Gorge Slide
• Take the Gorge Slide with a Partner
• Bridge Swing
• Bridge Swing Tandem
• Adrenaline Combo (Bungee, Swing & Zipline)
• Watch an African Drum Show with Dinner

Victoria Falls:

• Today you have the chance to try white water rafting along the Zambezi river. There’s also a locally guided village tour – get to know the locals and experience their way of life. End the evening with a magnificent sunset cruise including drinks.

Shearwater Explorer’s Village (or similar)

Included Meals: Breakfast

Additional Cost Applies:

• Zambezi River Rafting
• Visit a Local Village MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experience
• Sunset Cruise

Victoria Falls:

• We start today on foot, to literally ‘walk on the wild side’ with a guided walking safari along the Zambezi’s National Park. This is a unique way to track wildlife on foot while learning about some of the smaller animals – plus plants and just generally anything we come across. Afterwards, we go from foot mode to flight mode with a helicopter ride above the thunderous waters below – the best way to see the falls in all their glory. Then it’s across the border to Botswana for more of what we love. I.e., safaris! This time, it’s the world-famous Chobe National Park, known for its huge elephant population.

Chobe National Park:

• Tonight, you’ll truly experience the wilderness with a night out in the middle of the African bush. We have a private Contiki site just for us, with our own guides, cooks and a bonfire – all set under the stars. After dinner, you’ll get the chance to fall asleep to the sounds of Africa: a jackal calling in the distance, the loud whoop of a hyena, perhaps the roar of lions as they wake from a daytime slumber. Catch you later, city life!

Please note: Overnight Camping in Chobe won’t be available during the Summer from October to March. Instead, you’ll spend two nights at our lodge with Chobe Sunset and Sunrise Game Drives still included plus a buffet dinner.

Contiki Safari Camp (or similar)

Included Meals: Breakfast, Dinner

Included Experience:

• Take an Afternoon Game Drive in Chobe MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experience

Additional Cost Applies:

• Falls Helicopter flight (12 min)
• Falls Helicopter flight (25 min)
• Walking Safari MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experience

Chobe National Park:

• This morning we’ll wake up to watch the sunrise over the African bush with a light breakfast, before departing on a morning game drive to hopefully see some of the wildlife we may have heard the night before. We will arrive late morning to check into our new lodge and spend the rest of the day relaxing around the pool and swapping stories from the night before. On our last evening together you can opt for a wildlife cruise on the Chobe river. Surrounded by pods of hippos, crocs basking on the banks and all forms of African animals coming down to drink, this is truly one African sunset you’ll never forget followed by a buffet dinner tonight.

Kwalape Safari Lodge (or similar)

Included Meals: Breakfast

Included Experience:

• Take a Morning Game Drive in Chobe MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experience

Additional Cost Applies:

• Wildlife Cruise & Dinner

Chobe National Park:

• Dumela Botswana! We’ll head south today from Kasane to Gweta Lodge on the edge of the Makgadikgadi Salt pans.

Makgadikgadi Salt Pans:

• Opt to cruise the salt pans in open safari vehicles in search of a meerkat colony while getting some funky perspective photos in one of the largest salt flats in the world. Tonights treat is sundower drinks under an icon of Botswana before retiring to the lodge for dinner and drinks at the bar.

Gweta Lodge (or similar)

Included Meals: Breakfast

Additional Cost Applies:

• Meerkats & Salt Pans

Makgadikgadi Salt Pans:

• We will say goodbye to the pans (for now) and head on to the wildlife haven that is the Okavango Delta

Okavango Delta:

• Our minds already blown by this unique natural landscape, it’s off to the Okavango Delta, where we’ll take an awe-inspiring game drive before settling into our exclusive Contiki Safari Camp. We’ll be greeted with luxe two person dome tents – pre-erected of course – with stretchers, mattresses and linen. Dinner? How about a campfire meal as we swap tales under a starswept sky?

Contiki Safari Camp (or similar)

Included Meals: Breakfast, Dinner

Included Experience:

• Take an afternoon Game Drive in the Okavango Delta MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experience

Okavango Delta:

• Get your David Attenborough voice on, we’re in the heart of Africa’s iconic wildlife filming paradise. We’ll head off on an early morning game drive in hopes of spotting elephants, hippos and (if we’re lucky) some predators. Then it’s time for lunch and a siesta. Chill in the camp or opt for a Mokoro boat trip along the gorgeous waterways of the delta. This afternoon we’re back on another game drive before our traditional campfire dinner. This evening we have a once in a lifetime opportunity – a night drive in the bush with spotlights seeking out elusive nocturnal animals you can’t find during the day.

Contiki Safari Camp (or similar)

Included Experience:

• Take a morning Game Drive in the Okavango Delta MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experience
• Take an Afternoon Game Drive in the Okavango Delta MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experience
• Take a night Game Drive in the Okavango Delta MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experience

Additional Cost Applies:

• Mokoro Boat Safari

Okavango Delta:

• After breakfast it’s time for another morning game drive – eyes peeled for elephants – before we head to Maun and our lodge for the night.

Maun:

• This afternoon opt to soar over the delta on a helicopter for peerless views of the wildlife below, as you hover just meters above the waterways. This evening you can choose to experience a dinner and show, with young people from the local community performing on the theme of conservation.

Island Safari Lodge (or similar)

Included Meals: Breakfast

Included Experience:

• Take a dawn Game Drive in the Okavango Delta MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experience

Additional Cost Applies:

• Spot Wildlife on a Helicopter Ride
• Craft Brewery for Conservation MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experience

Maun:

• After a last breakfast together its time to say goodbye to new found friends and an incredible time in Botswana.

Included Meals: Breakfast