Tailor-Made Trips Across Southern Africa
Four routes. Endless possibilities. Let’s build yours.
Every Africanrovers trip starts as a conversation, not a brochure. The four routes below are starting points — real itineraries we’ve run before — but nothing is fixed. Tell us how you like to travel, and we’ll shape the days around you, from camping to luxury lodges.
Cape Town to Johannesburg
This tour will start in Cape Town. We either pick you up at the airport and start straight away or anywhere else around the mother city. Mike knows the Garden Route like the back of his hand – so depending on what you are keen to do and see there are countless options. We discuss this with you beforehand ;-). We can go for a paddle in Hermanus, for a mountain bike ride in the vineyards followed by a wine tasting or pairing. Maybe you would like to just chill in a beautiful wilderness area and stand up paddle on a river? Accommodation can be in the roof top tent or in a hotel/Lodge/B&B. We can include a game farm or go to Addo (that’s the original plan). On the way there is an option to bungee jump from the second highest platform worldwide.
We can do day hikes along the way or just relax on some beach for a few hours. Wanna try out surfing? Here is time and the place for that too. As we are making our way towards the Drakensberg the coast gets wilder and less populated. We’d like to take you hiking for a day or two before we continue to Durban, aiming for St. Lucia and the Wetlands, where we’ll see hippos and crocodiles, and on to eSwatini. We arrive at a lodge near Kruger National Park and drop you there – or you prolong your stay.
Kruger National Park
You will be picked up by the hotel’s transfer shuttle from Johannesburg airport and meet us at the hotel. The next day we pack up and enter the park through the southernmost gate. We make our way slowly up to the north, staying at different camps along the way. You can decide whether you would like to stay in park accommodation or a tent. This trip is less flexible, as the camps in the park fill quickly and we have to check in at a camp every night.
Kruger is South Africa’s flagship game park, and most of the time we get to see all the animals that live here. Park regulations only allow driving very slowly, and that’s just what we’ll do – slow travel, exploring main roads and side tracks, taking our time. At the camp sites there will be ample time to check waterholes and relax. Should you wish to book a bush walk, just let us know!
Kgalagadi & the Northern Cape
We pick you up in Johannesburg or Cape Town and drive west/north. Let’s see how you feel: maybe you’d like to not drive too far today, or you arrived late? This trip is all about the solitude and vastness of the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park. We’ll start at the main camp in Twee Rivieren and spend a week or so in the park across different camps. This isn’t a Big 5 park – there isn’t enough food here for the larger herbivores – but we’ll see the famous black-maned lions, plus a good chance of leopard, hyena and cheetah.
It will be hot during the day but the evenings bring some chill, so pack a few warm things too. From the Kgalagadi we head to Augrabies Falls National Park, stopping over at hot springs to relax on the way. Depending on time, we can linger at the Orange River, continue into Richtersveld National Park, or head back toward Cape Town or Johannesburg – via the West Coast for ocean vibes, or Kimberley to see the remains of the biggest diamond mine.
Windhoek to Cape Town
This spectacular trip through Namibia’s unique landscapes begins in Windhoek (or Cape Town – we can run it the other way too), where we pick you up from the airport. First stop: Swakopmund, on the coast, to ease into this magical country. From there we drive through changing forms of desert – genuinely incredible – to Sesriem Canyon, the dunes, Dead Vlei, and the largest starry sky you’ve ever seen. The petrified trees here are a thousand years old.
We camp at the beautiful site in Aus and visit the coastal town of Lüderitz and the ghost town of Kolmanskop. After so much sand we head for water – a three-day canoe trip on the Orange River, camping on its banks at night. If the weather plays along, the Cederberg gives us one more incredible night sky before the gentle five-hour drive back to Cape Town, where our time together ends – unless you’d like to stay a little longer.
None of these quite right? Good – that means we’re just getting started.
Every route above can be shortened, combined, or rebuilt from scratch around what you actually want to see and do.