Kruger to Cape Explored
We arrived in Johannesburg and our first taste of South Africa was to experience a power cut at the airport. We were met and greeted by our Tour Guide, Nabeel Daniels who turned out to be an excellent tour guide. He is a credit to Wendy Wu.
We travelled onwards to the Kruger National Park having stopped at the Davinci Hotel and Angels View Hotel along the route. Nabeel stopped at various sites where we could take photos of the landscape and visit some interesting tourist stops such as The Apartheid Museum, God’s Window, Blyde River Canyon, Bourkes Luck Potholes, The Three Rondels and the Graskop Goerge Lift. Whilst travelling we had lunch and had the chance to enjoy a taste of the local cuisine.
We arrived at the Shiduli Private Game Reserve mid-afternoon, and after checking into our rooms we met our game tour guide and driver. We set of on our first drive into the park and were immediately seeing some of the “big five” Our guide was extremely knowledgeable and supplied our group with plenty of information. This was to be the same for all our other drives into the game reserve. This stay was one of the main highlights of the entire holiday. On our departure all the staff gathered in the restaurant area and sang a traditional South African song as we departed.
We then travelled back to Johannesburg Airport to catch an internal flight to Port Elizabeth where we would continue on our tour. The following day we travelled to Knysa stopping on the way to visit Oudebosch Protea Farm where we had the chance to see the process of growing the Protea flower. Our next stop was the Tsitsikamma National Forest. We climbed up ino the forst and down into the Storms River Mouth where we crossed a few suspension bridges and returned back to starting point of the walk.
We continued on to Kynsa and after checking in at our hotel in Knysa we had some free time to explore this picturesque harbour before being taken to really good fish restaurant situated in the harbour. The following morning we crossed the lagoon over to the Featherbed Eco Experience by ferry, where we were taken by tractor to the top of the Western Head. We then descended by foot following the paths back to the visitor centre getting the chance to take in the picturesque scenery of the lagoon and cliffs. We had a superb lunch before we returned by ferry to continue our journey to Oudtshoorn.
The following morning we visited the Cango Caves where we were taken on a guided tour of the cave system. Our next stop was an Ostrich Farm where we given a tour of the farm on a trailer and given the opportunity to feed the Ostrich. They certainly like their food. We travelled on to Cape Town after enjoying lunch.
Cape Town was a mixture of old and new building. We started off with a tour of the city and then we had a guided walk of part of the city. Table Mountain was on our agenda for the day but the cable car was closed due to poor weather so we were taken on a scenic tour of the area. The next day we visited two vineyards where we had the opportunity to sample a selection of their local wines followed by lunch providing views across the valley.
The next day we went on a cruise to see the local seal colony. Afterwards we went on to Boulders Beach where we visited the local African Penguins colony followed by lunch. Our surprise for the afternoon was that Table Mountain was now open and we were able to go to the top of Table Mountain by cable car. Stunning views of Cape Town. Our final outing was to The Gold Restaurant to experience an authentic African Experience where everyone was encouraged to take part in the evenings entertainment The food was a 14 course dish taste of South Africa.
The final day in Cape Town before our flight home was a leisure day where we just ambled around the Water Front Area.
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Was it value for money? Yes, it was a busy holiday and certainly value for money.
Highlights? A hard question as it was all stunning. But the main two were The Kruger Private Game Reserve and Table Top mountain.
Tour Guide Quality? Nabeel Daniels was outstanding. We have done several tours over the years with various companies and he was by far the best. He was always doing his best to make sure that we got the most from this holiday and that we enjoyed it..
Drivers. We had two drivers both were very good, Robert drove in the north and Reg drove in the south. Again both were a credit to Wendy Wu.

Extremely helpful, the support and communication from Wendy Wu is second to none!