After a leisurely breakfast you’ll experience Franschhoek on foot in a guided, gentle, unhurried meander through boutique estates where the focus is on craft, vineyard lore, character, and stories rather than spectacle. You’ll move between hidden-gem family‑run cellars, take in the spectacular panoramic views of the mountain‑hugged vineyards, and tucked‑away tasting rooms, meeting the people behind the wines and savouring small‑batch pours that rarely leave the valley.

Your walk ends with a savouring a delicious farm-to table lunch at a boutique wine estate. It’s relaxed, personal, and beautifully Franschhoek: a day shaped by intimate stories, good conversation, thoughtful pairings, and the kind of insider access that turns a simple wine outing into something quietly memorable. Suitable for the whole family and it’s an easy, unhurried way to intimately experience Franschhoek’s quieter magic together, with something thoughtful poured (or discovered) for every age.

Your day is at leisure to wander between world‑class wine estates if you choose, art galleries, local farm kitchens, and shaded village streets where French influence meets contemporary South African creativity. It’s a place to taste exceptional wines, linger over chef‑driven farm-to-table cuisine, hike through fynbos‑rich slopes, meander through farm vineyards and gardens, and soak up a sense of history that feels both intimate and beautifully preserved.

This special arranged stay will include breakfast daily, one 3-course dinner for 2 at the awarded Moneaux Restaurant, 1 x Spa Treatment per room and complimentary transfers into Town.

This morning you’ll fly to the Greater Kruger National Park for 4 nights at an intimate luxury safari lodge near Kruger in the heart of the wilderness in a private game reserve for if not the best Big 5 safari in South Africa.

Set on the edge of the Greater Kruger, the true wilderness of Thornybush Private Game Reserve is conservation-focussed game reserve combining open, expansive savannah, riverine forest, and thick bushveld landscapes which means that your game viewing is highly rewarding, from lion prides and leopard sightings to large herds of elephant and buffalo, zebra, giraffe, hippo, white rhino and incredible birdlife.

As part of the Thornybush Nature Reserve, Shumbalala supports one of South Africa’s most successful private‑sector conservation models through funding anti‑poaching units, habitat restoration, and long‑term wildlife monitoring that directly benefits threatened species like rhino, leopard, and pangolin.

The lodge’s small footprint and low‑impact operations help keep the reserve wild, while its guiding team works closely with conservation partners to share real field insights with guests. Shumbalala also invests in the surrounding community through employment, skills development, and procurement from local businesses, ensuring that the benefits of tourism flow back into families living around the reserve. The result is a lodge where every stay contributes to both ecological protection and meaningful community upliftment — conservation with real roots.

With only 5 suites, the family-owned and run Shumbalala Game Lodge personifies an eco-friendly and ethical safari experience and through their intensive local community work, your stay is a community-based safari at this special lodge which is warm with an unpretentious atmosphere that keeps it feeling personal rather than polished to perfection, offers delectable cuisine and a carefully curated wine list, and which you won’t forget in a hurry.

What makes Thornybush an extraordinary wilderness is spectacular wildlife sighting opportunity with expert trackers and guides who know the bush like the back of their hands, It’s the reserve you discover when you’re searching for a safari that’s both luxurious and deeply authentic and real.

Your days will be filled with morning and afternoon game drives in open 4×4 game vehicles that go into the night, walking safaris led by highly knowledgeable and expert, armed rangers, sumptuous meals, fireside ramblings, surprise dining locations and all the spoils at the lodge where you will feel like part of the family.

Our special arrangement on this tour is that one of your four nights is complimentary!

Today you take to the skies for a quick 1-hour flight to the shores of one of the best beaches in Mozambique and an island retreat with all the right luxury touches in the highly protected Vilankulos Coastal Wildlife Sanctuary on the San Sebastian Peninsula.

Mozambique is one of Africa’s best-kept secrets; a cultural fusion of vibrant, soulful African traditions, Portuguese colonial history, and ancient Swahili trade routes. It is where wild bushveld collides with the footprint-free sands of the Indian Ocean. Unspoiled by mass tourism, this coastline offers a raw, authentic escape that feels entirely personal. Here, world-class luxury eco-lodges sit harmoniously within pristine biosphere reserves, offering an exclusive “bush and beach” experience found nowhere else on earth under sparkling skies and breathtaking sunsets that will leave you peaceful and enchanted.

The country is a marine super-highway home to Africa’s dolphins, populations of rare dugongs, whale sharks, and nesting sea turtles, an unchartered wilderness of pristine coral reefs and vast coastal wildlife sanctuaries virtually untouched by crowds.

Privately family-owned House Marape sits on one of Mozambique’s most quietly spectacular islands and beast beaches in Mozambique— a place that invites you to unwind at your own pace, where the tides set the rhythm, the water glows that impossible Indian Ocean turquoise, and life feels beautifully unhurried. The house itself is tucked just steps from the shoreline, surrounded by palms, soft sand, with the warm hospitality and easy elegance that defines island living here.

Children are welcome and can explore tide pools, snorkel over bright reefs, sail on gentle dhow trips, and roam the beach safely while adults unwind into the island’s slower pulse. Evenings settle into candlelit dinners under a sky thick with stars. It’s soulful, secluded, and beautifully family‑friendly — luxury woven into the simplicity of true island living.

House Marape is entirely eco-friendly where the retreat operates on solar power, the architecture itself carefully designed and built on raised wooden walkways protecting the fragile coastal dune vegetation underneath,  and the buildings built from local, natural materials with a layout designed to promote cooling sea breezes moving through, reducing the need for high-energy consuming control systems.

Offering highly sought-after privacy the retreat is exclusive-use only, with only 5 luxury villas the retreat can host a minimum of 4 and a maximum of 10 guests, so ideal for families or a group of friends.

Your days unfold in that castaway‑luxury way: snorkelling over bright reefs, drifting on dhow sails, exploring sandbanks, watching fishermen bring in their catch, sunset boat cruises, and ending with barefoot dinners under a sky blanketed with stars. It’s simple, soulful, and deeply connected to the island’s natural beauty — the kind of place where you exhale without even realising it.

At this luxury beach resort in Mozambique, under special arrangements on of you 5 nights is complimentary!

Return to Maputo International Airport for your homeward journey.