Safari Africa

 

Day 1: Your Cape Town airport transfer will take you directly to our joining hotel, ready for an early start tomorrow. Today you will meet your crew for your tour briefing and welcome dinner.
Day 2: Departing Cape Town, we take the legendary Chapman's Peak Drive with epic views of the Atlantic ocean and ride around False Bay through tiny coastal villages before entering the Overberg region to Arniston, near the southernmost tip of Africa.
Day 3: We take a ride out to the southernmost point on the African continent, at L’Agulhas where the Atlantic and Indian oceans meet, before turning north into the Klein Karoo via the wonderful Tradouws Pass to the award winning Big 5 game reserve, Aquila Private Game Reserve where we go on our first safari.
Day 4: Today’s ride sees us hit the dirt tracks of the mighty Cederberg Wilderness Area and visit the extraordinary Staadal Caves & San rock art site with its 5,000 year old rock art before reaching the frontier town of Clanwilliam.
Day 5: A short ride today to the wonderful Papkuilsfontein Homestead with the magnificent Oorlogskloof Canyon on the property. We overnight at this superb homestead that has been in the same family for 6 generations and take a farm tour of this magnificent remote farm.
Day 6: A longer ride day today, we go via Nieuwoudtville and visit an amazing dust covered motorcycle collection before crossing into the Western Cape region for our overnight stay at the wonderful Springbok, our last night in South Africa.
Day 7: Crossing into Namibia, we enter an utterly spectacular landscape of vast deserts, enormous canyons and hot springs. We overnight at the amazing Gondwana Roadhouse, with its Namibian transport theme.
Day 8: Its a pre-dawn excursion in 4WDs to witness sunrise over the second largest canyon in the world, Fish River Canyon. Mostly dirt today as we ride north through more stunning desert vistas to the remote Burgsdorf Guest farm for a wonderful night of true Namibian hospitality.
Day 9: Riding west we visit the amazing Duwasib Castle built by a German baron and ride through the oldest desert on earth, to Sesriem, on the edge of the magnificent Namib–Naukluft Park.
Day 10: A day off the bikes today as we have a very early start to visit the Namib–Naukluft Park at sunrise where we shall watch the towering dunes turn a magnificent red at sunrise. We visit dune 40 and 45 and explore breathtaking Deadvlei, a small pan dotted with 1,000 year old bleached trees perfectly contrasting against the red dunes all around.
Day 11: More awe inspiring desert scenery today as we cross the Tropic of Capricorn and descend the plateau on our way to Swakopmund, a city sandwiched between the Atlantic coast and the dunes of the Namib Desert.
Day 12: We ride along the Skeleton Coast, visiting a ship wreck before turning inland into the remote and wild Erongo Region and riding onto the absolutely superb Omaruru Game Lodge. Built around a waterhole Omaruru offers us a magnificent night of watching animals as they gather around the waterhole, animals such as giraffe, rhino, zebra and many species of antelope.
Day 13: Leaving Omaruru, if the giraffes will let us, we hit the dirt again and visit the superb Outjo Bakery before reaching our safari lodge close to the internationally renowned Etosha National park.
Day 14: A day off the bikes we include an early morning game drive, where we hope to see the Big-5 as they wander this immense park and gather around one of the waterholes this is the quintessential African experience.
Day 15: Our final day will see us ride due south to the Namibian capital of Windhoek.
Departure day: Spend some time in Windhoek or fly home, the choice is yours