Capetown plus safari

[der110]

We had a safari we had planned get cancelled due to illness.  We are looking for a cruise from Capetown, preferably to Europe, that would include on opportunity for a safari before the cruise.  We found some on Oceania and Cunard (the latter did not seem to have land excursions of this type).  Any other suggestions?

[carlmm]

MSC offers a cruise on the MSC Sinfonia from Cape Town to Venice in 2023.

[Mcobean]

On 6/10/2022 at 7:17 PM, der110 said:

We had a safari we had planned get cancelled due to illness.  We are looking for a cruise from Capetown, preferably to Europe, that would include on opportunity for a safari before the cruise.  We found some on Oceania and Cunard (the latter did not seem to have land excursions of this type).  Any other suggestions?

Azamara has a Cape Town to Lisbon, 3 back to back’s actually. My DW and are booked in February  2024.

 

cheers,

daryl

Edited June 12, 2022 by Mcobean
Update

[John Bull]

Altho there are more-local options, the best safari territory by far is to the eastern end of South Africa, far from Capetown. 

So consider booking a safari separately from the cruise-line's options.

 

If your pocket and time will stand it, choose a private reserve in Greater Kruger, or self-drive in Kruger National Park itself. Fly to Johannesburg (about an hour from Capetown, frequent flights), then a little local airplane to somewhere like Hoedspruit, where a local safari lodge will collect you,. Orr rent a car from Jo'burg or Huedspruit  and book self-drive in Kruger National Park. 

We've done both, self-driving in the Nat. Park is by far the cheaper option, including staying in little self-catering rondevals in park rest-camps.

 

Cruises which sail up the eastern side of Africa have far more interesting itineraries than up the Atlantic side - places like Madagascar, Zanzibar, Safaga (for Luxor), Aqaba (for Petra & Wadi Run), Port Sokhna or Alexandria (for Cairo) and the Suez Canal.

And on that eastern itinerary, South African ports-of-call at Port Elizabeth (under an hour from Addo Elephant Park which despite the name it has a wide selection of game) and at Richard's Bay, just over an hour from the southern entrance to iSimangaliso wetland park at St Lucia.

You can easily fit either Park into a decently-long port-of-call day, by self-drive or car plus driver/guide.

You won't get the full experience in a day, but they're very good tasters. 

https://www.sanparks.org/

 

Our last safari was in the Serengeti, Tanzania. 

Waaaaay better than South Africa, and better value.  Private safari jeep and driver from Arusha (Lion King) for 7 days, choice of levels of accommodation (we spread our choices from a tented camp in the middle of nowhere to a luxury lodge on the rim of the Ngorongoro crater).

https://www.lionkingadventures.com/

That of course is a fairly long flight from Capetown. 

 

JB 🙂

 

 

Edited June 12, 2022 by John Bull

[Jamietravelstheworld]

Azamara. I'm doing b2b, Cape Town to Cape Town, and Cape Town to Lisbon, in late February and March 2023. You can do a safari to Kruger and elsewhere before either of the Cape Towns embarkations.