12-day Durban, Lesotho Cape Town Camping

We start our adventure tour north of Durban where we board our Acacia vehicle and head inland via Pietermaritzburg to the southern Drakensberg. An immensely scenic area, the Drakensberg is South Africas highest mountain range, and we spend the next days of our Africa adventure tour exploring the hills and valleys along a section of the berg. We settle into our camp in the late afternoon and get to know our fellow travellers.

Today we leave our Acacia vehicle behind and join local guides in 4x4 vehicles for a guided tour of Lesotho. We drive via the famed Sani Pass into the Drakensberg Mountains where we catch a glimpse of the Basotho way of life. We head up the Black Mountain - the second highest road pass in Lesotho rising 3240m where we enjoy our lunch.

Today we spend the day visiting some historic sites of the KZN Battlefields before finishing up at the northern base of the Drakensberg Mountains where we will spend the night.

Today we spend our time exploring the Royal Natal National Park. Renowned for its beautiful scenery and mountainous trails, we will have the opportunity to explore this reserve in the heart of KwaZulu Natal, enjoying its scenic views and waterfalls. Look out for San Rock Art along the way, and the local wildlife and birdlife that can be seen in the valleys and hillsides.

We continue on our adventure tour, re-entering the Mountain Kingdom of Lesotho and driving over the spectacular mountain ranges to our camp at Malealea, nestled between the scenic valleys and hills. Lesotho is a landlocked country high in the Maluti mountains the other side of the Drakensberg with a predominantly rural population that survives on subsistence farming.

You have the day free today to explore this part of the beautiful country of Lesotho and enjoy some of the optional activities that are on offer. Head out and explore the winding tracks along the hills on a pony trek letting the sure-footed Lesotho ponies lead the way, or try some adrenaline action on a mountain bike tour. There are a number of hikes to nearby waterfalls and places of interest too.

Climbing back into our Acacia vehicle, we bid our farewells to the mountain kingdom and head back to South Africa. Along the way, we take in picturesque scenery to the Mountain Zebra National Park. Home to over 700 animals including eland, cape buffalo, cheetah, lion, caracal, black rhino, bat eared fox and over 700 Cape mountain zebra after which the park is named. We game drive in our Acacia vehicle in search for these animals en-route to our camp for the evening located inside the National Park gates.

Today we enjoy a safari in South Africas third largest National Park, and one of the few parks in the world boasting the Big Seven. The Addo Elephant National Park is home to an abundance of wildlife species, including over 600 elephants, lion, buffalo, rhino, hyena and leopard, as well as the great white shark and whales in the coastal waters that form part of the reserve. We spend most of the day exploring the reserve and the many wondrous sights. In the afternoon, we make our way to our camp for the night near Gqeberha Port Elizabeth.

Rising early we head back to the coast and the Tsitsikamma Forest nestled in the coastal belt between the Outeniqua Mountain range and the Indian Ocean. We spend the morning exploring the park either on walks across the suspension bridge, forest pathways and walkways or can head out for a short hike along the first part of the famed Otter Trail. There are many rock pools to explore to see the variety of marine species, as well as the forest and riverbank with a myriad of birdlife. In the late afternoon, we head to Plettenberg where we have a night off to explore the town.

We spend the morning explore the town at leisure. In the early afternoon, we continue our adventure to the ostrich capital of the world, Oudtshoorn. This area is also home to the Cango Caves, Africas largest show cave system, where we can explore the fascinating underground caverns and their quirky rock formations.

We cross back over the mountains and travel to Africas southern-most tip at Cape Agulhus. This is also officially where the Indian and Atlantic Oceans meet. From here we head through the farming communities to the coastal town of Hermanus. Once a little fishing village, Hermanus and adjacent Walker Bay have become popular in the winter months as a haven for the Southern-Right Whales that come here to calf in the calmer waters of the bay. In the summer months there is still plenty to see and do with our afternoon at leisure here.

Our last morning on the road takes us via the Overberg and coastal winelands to Cape Town. We stop off along the way and enjoy a wine tasting to see what all the fuss is about. Our adventure ends on arrival in Cape Town in the late afternoon.