Cape Town to Johannesburg

• Accommodation: 19 Classic nights (log cabins, chalets, hotels and permanent tented camp)
• Travel is by minibus or overland truck
• Mainly good roads with some long drives

All breakfasts, 16 lunches and 13 dinners are included. Your guide and driver/assistant generally prepare the meals included in this trip. A rough idea of what the meals consist of is as follows: Breakfast: Cereals, coffee, tea and toast. The occasional cooked breakfast too Lunch: Cheese, cold meats, salads, bread or rolls, fresh fruit Dinner: Potjies (stew), braais (barbecue), stir fries, pasta with fresh vegetables. Most are generally cooked on the open fire. Please be aware, we need at least two weeks’ notice to deal with special dietary requirements (eg vegetarian or allergies.) For this reason, if you did not indicate these on your booking form, please advise us as soon as possible. The tour leaders do all the shopping, meal planning and cooking for each group. They always try to obtain fresh produce wherever possible. We also supply the following drinks: fruit squash served with breakfast and tea or coffee served with breakfast and dinner. All other beverages are at your own expense. We do not supply bottled drinking water although it is available at many shops if you want to buy it yourself. The water provided on this trip is safe and clean drinking water, normally from boreholes. It is not bottled water, however. If you would rather have bottled water, this will be at your expense. However, we would encourage you to make use of the safe drinking water provided as this helps diminish plastic consumption.

Although the greater part of South Africa lies north of the Tropic of Capricorn, the altitude moderates the temperature. Summer is from October to April and the average daytime temperature is 25C-30C (77F-86F). The average night-time temperature is 10C-20C (50F-68F). Winter is from May to September and average temperatures are colder at this time of year. In and around Cape Town, most of the rainfall is in the winter but it is frontal rain, which comes off the Atlantic. Therefore, it can rain solidly for two days with warm, sunny days in between.

There is likely to be very little rain inland during April through October. In July and August, the nights can be very cold, especially in the Drakensberg where temperatures can drop below freezing. However, the days are warm and crisp with generally cloud-free skies. November through February, rain can sometimes be expected and the temperature is higher. However, as anyone who has travelled to these parts will say, rain is often a blessing: it manifests the local colours, drops the sometimes-sweltering temperatures and never generally lasts too long. It also means the nights are incredibly clear. Due to the ocean’s proximity to the mountains and the winds, it is fairly common to experience tabletop clouds on the higher mountains in and around Cape Town.

This trip is rated Activity Level 3 (Moderate). For more information on our trip gradings please visit the Activity Level Guidelines page. If you have any queries about the difficulty of the trip please do not hesitate to contact us.

It is designed for people in good health who enjoy the outdoors. It is a varied trip with sightseeing, city tours, game viewing, beach activities and walking. The moderate grading is given as some of the walks, especially in the Drakensberg, require a reasonable level of fitness.

Due to the nature of this trip, we have some long driving days as we cover a lot of the country but there is lots to do and see along the way. We do, however, stop regularly for toilet breaks, refreshments, photographs and leg stretches. Drive times on a lot of the days are four to five hours but a couple may be in excess of seven hours (not including time for stops). Drive times in the itinerary are approximations only and do vary.