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Romantic and adventure filled Honeymoon.

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Romantic Cape Town & Kruger Honeymoon

Cape Town and the Greater Kruger Park - 2 Week Honeymoon

Summary of the Honeymoon

For those who want to see the very best of what South Africa has to offer, a 2 week trip combining Cape Town with a safari in the Kruger area makes for an unforgettable honeymoon.

A big influence on the cost of your trip will be the time of year you chose to travel: May to September is low season and whilst these are the cooler, wetter 'winter' months around Cape Town it is an excellent time to go on safari near the Kruger National Park. For more information on the climate and seasons, click here.

Cape Town
Hazyview
Safari Lodge
Self-drive safari
Getting Home

Please note: Kruger is a malarial area - for malaria-free safaris see here.

Cape Town (5 days)

Cape Town is one of the world's most beautiful cities - with a magnificent mountain as its centre, miles of sandy beaches, a colourful and moving history, and countless bars and restaurants, Cape Town captures the hearts of visitors from around the world.

Cape Town Harbour at Sunset A stay of 4 days allows time to see all the major attractions in the city (Table Mountain, Robben Island, township tour, Camps Bay, V&A Waterfront, Kirstenbosch Gardens, numerous museums and galleries) as well as allowing enough time to travel down to the Cape Peninsula and over to the Cape Winelands.

For much of the year there is one direct flight a day from Cape Town Airport (CPT) to the Nelspruit Kruger Mpumalanga Airport (MQP). If this flight is full or not available, there are other flights that connect through Johannesburg.

Hazyview and the Lowveld (2 days)

Hazyview is a small town only 40 minutes from the Nelspruit Kruger Mpumalanga Airport and 15 km from the nearest gate into the Kruger National Park.

The Lowveld area around the Kruger Park is beautiful, and definitely worth exploring. The highly promoted 'Panorama Route' is a self-drive route, which takes in many of the scenic sights and attractions, including God's Window, Bourkes Luck Potholes, the Blyde River Canyon and Pilgrims Rest.

On Safari in a Private Game Reserve (3 days)

The safari lodges in the private game reserves which make up the Greater Kruger Park area offer possibly the best Big 5 game viewing opportunities to be found on the continent, and provide a truly unforgettable wildlife experience with regular sightings of lion, leopard, elephant, rhino, and buffalo.

Aside from the excellent standard of accommodation, food, and service in the lodges, the main attraction for wildlife enthusiasts is that the guides and trackers who take guests out on their morning and evening game drives are permitted to take their vehicles off-road in order to get closer to the wildlife.

If you want to get within a couple of metres of lions or leopards in the wild, then these are the places to stay - and you can be certain that your safari will be utterly magical.

The prices starts from around R1,300 per person per night and go up to over R5,000 per person per night depending on the lodge and time of year. The rates are fully inclusive of all your meals and morning/afternoon game drives, and some lodges include all drinks as well in the price.

Starting in a private safari lodge will give you unbeatable wildlife sightings and you will also pick up some tips on spotting and watching wildlife that you will be able to use yourself on the next self-drive part of your trip.

Self-Drive Safari in Kruger (3 days)

Kruger National Park is the premier self-drive safari destination in South Africa, with an unbeatable variety of wildlife and habitats to explore, an excellent infrastructure of roads and accommodation, and a feeling of huge, wide-open spaces.

Kruger Self-Drive Self-drive in Kruger is a completely different experience from staying in a private reserve. Although you will probably not get as close to the wildlife (in Kruger itself you are restricted to the extensive road network), the thrill of waiting at a peaceful waterhole and having a sighting all to yourself is hard to beat.

Joining a guided sunset or night drive will give you an excellent chance of seeing hyena, genet and many other night animals not normally active during the day.

There are 25 camps in the Park, offering a range of accommodation from rustic cabins to luxury houses to furnished tents.

Impala Time permitting, staying at a couple of different camps also gives you the opportunity to see more of this magnificent Park.

Lower Sabie is one of the best camps in the Park, and boasts a fantastic location right on the banks of the Sabie River. The area is rich with game, and the drive along the river between Lower Sabie and Skukuza is widely held to be one of the best in the Park for lion sightings.

Skukuza is by far the largest camp, and has the most facilities, including a bank, post office and garage.

Getting Home (one more night in Hazyview)

Staying one more night back in Hazyview before driving to the Nelspruit Kruger Mpumalanga Airport to catch your flight home will not only mean you get to spend longer in Kruger, but will also make your whole journey home much more relaxed.