4 Day Garden Route Adventure & Safari: Experience the Highlights of East Coast South Africa
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88 Ratings
Oudtshoorn

The Garden Route, a serene paradise situated on the Eastern Coast of South Africa, is the focus of our 4-day tour that covers the region’s attractions and exquisite landscapes. It’s the ideal choice for those tight on time but eager to revel in the renowned Garden Route and its numerous activities!

Duration: 4 days
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • The Cango Caves - Depart Cape Town at 6am and head up to Oudtshoorn in the Little Karoo semi desert area, which also is the ostrich capital of the World. This drive follows the world-famous Route 62 which is the longest wine route in the world! We’ll visit the Cango Caves for a tour through this magnificent cave system and also visit an ostrich farm for a closer look at this enormous bird. Tonight, we’ll stay in Oudtshoorn and have a delicious ostrich for dinner. (Dinner)
What's Included
  • Local guide
  • Professional guide
  • National Park fees
  • 3 nights accommodation
  • Driver/guide
  • Round-trip shared transfer
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off (if option selected)
  • Breakfast
  • Dinner
  • Transport by air-conditioned minivan
What's Not Included
  • Lunch
  • Alcoholic drinks (available to purchase)
  • Drinks
  • Gratuities
Location
The Cango Caves
328 Approximately 30km (19 miles) from town on the R
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Sightsee30695646006
Mar 16, 2024
Very good - I have nothing but praise for our tour and tour guide Mawabde. The places we stayed at were all good especially De Akker guest house, where everything was immaculate. Also The Garden Route Animal Park. I would certainly recommend this tour
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Danielle_c
Feb 20, 2024
Exceeded expectations - Starting with our guide Christopher, such a great speaker, full of knowledge and such a nice guy . Every place we visited was amazing, the highlight was viewing the Cheetah and Rhino at the garden game lodge though I thoroughly enjoyed everything ! Views were magnificent and all I can say is book it !!
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Linda_z
Feb 20, 2024
Great trip with a full... - Great trip with a full program. The days of the tour are packed with things to see and do. Our guide Chris took us to a lot of beautiful places and always provided information and amusing anecdotes. For the 4 days he did everything he could to fullfill the wishes of all participants on the tour and reacted to all our needs. Two places we stayed at were awesome and the third was still decent. The food was always very delicious and the two safari tours in the Garden Route Game lodge were simply amazing and the big highlights of the tour. In the south of SA/Capetown you probably will not find many better, more comprehensive experiences.
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Excursion22408257535
Feb 14, 2024
Best tour guide Mawande - My lovely daughter surprised me with this trip for Christmas. Wow it was a trip of a lifetime.A wonderful experience South Africa is such a beautiful country. Our tour guide Mawande is so knowledgeable, friendly and an excellent guide. The dinners were excellent and accommodations perfect. I could never have seen as much as I did in 4 days without this tour. Elephants ostriches safari caves penguins. The drive on the coast breathtaking
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Robertkh5907jz
Feb 9, 2024
Great 4 day garden route tour - Great trip for our honeymoon. Chris was excellent and made it a memorable experience. Great value for money, and we did some of the optional experiences also
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X3474tiritab
Feb 6, 2024
An interesting, beautiful and exciting tour. Thoroughly recommended. - A fabulous tour, made particularly special by the tour guide Mawande, from whom learnt so much about the history, politics and geography of the beautiful garden route. The mountain and sea scapes were wonderful. The ‘walking with elephants’, viewing the bungy jumps, the caves and game drives were great. Thankyou Bokbus.
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Shipslave
Feb 6, 2024
Thank you Mawande for a great trip - We thoroughly enjoyed our 4 day trip with Mawande. He gave us a really good insight into South Africa and readily answered our many questions, so although there was a lot of driving he made sure we were kept interested. Mawande was very good at ensuring everyone got the most out of the activities offered. Such a friendly and thoughtful person, we loved our time on tour with him.
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Sightseer23131049225
Feb 2, 2024
A once in a lifetime experience! - The garden route tour with Bokbus was a 10/10 experience - Benjamin, our tour guide, was so knowledgeable, lovely and welcoming. He was an absolute star and we couldn’t have asked for a better guide. In addition to the stops on the itinerary we also had time to visit the Cango wildlife reserve and the Kynsna elephant park both of which were real highlights! Thank you for giving us such wonderful memories.
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Jocks244
Jan 31, 2024
The Amazing Benjamin and the bokabus - This was some of the best days of my life and I do alot of crazy/fun stuff we saw so much of Africa, saw all of the big 5, jumped off 216m bridge, Cage dived with Crocodiles, stroked baby cheetahs and fully grown one's, it was such and action packed 4 days it really did have everything and we was so happy to have an amazing group of people from all nationalities which was amazing but with all this said the best part was still our driver Benjamin who was not only doing everything in his power to make us have an amazing adventure he truly is a legend and if you are lucky enough to have him then your trip will be so much better, I could not recommend this experience enough, it's a must do activity as it covers so much of what south Africa stands for 😀 don't think about it just do it 👊👊
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Katrin
Mar 12, 2024
Nice Tour, with a great guide! - Thx Mawande for making this Tour to a great experience! The more or less typical touristic tour has been unique because of Mawande. His knowledge and expertise in case of all topic’s concerning South Africa’s landscapes, Nature, History or everyday features was fantastic. During he drove us safely through the route, we had some really exciting conversations and learned an incredible amount of fascinating information. Some of the items on the program were not in my personal interest and they are designed for the maximum tourism (e.g. Ostrichfarm or Elephantpark). Nevertheless our guide made the journey through the beautiful landscape to a wonderful experience so I gained a better insight into this special country and places despite the short time.
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