Welcome to 2025 South Africa Golf & Safari, including Victoria Falls

 

Since introducing South Africa to our annual tour line up over five years ago, it has become a personal favourite and, for many of our clients as well. Here’s why – golf and wildlife!

 

The golf courses and their settings are amazing! The backdrop for Gary Player’s Leopard Creek, our first course on tour, is the Kruger National Park and Crocodile River. Tee off to the sounds of hippos happily bathing in the crocodile-infested waters. We play two courses in the premier wine growing region of Stellenbosch – Jack Nicklaus’s Pearl Valley and the Steenberg GC.

 

Along the Garden Route with the Atlantic Ocean and Indian Ocean as our backdrop are two Peter Matkovich masterpieces – Arabella and Pinnacle Point. Our final destination is the award winning Fancourt Golf Resort to take on the challenge of two courses there.

Experiencing the wildlife is like having your own private David Attenborough show. Sightings of South Africa’s Big Five – elephant, rhinoceros, lion, buffalo, and leopard is an everyday occurrence on tour – we spend three days in Kruger National Park with game drives daily at sunset and sunrise – the best time of day to see the animals. Last tour, we were lucky to see two cheetahs and a herd of over 30 elephants playing in the river below our lodge. We have encountered hyena, rare wild dogs, giraffe, zebra, hippos, crocodile, eagles, baboons, vultures, warthogs, kudu, wildebeest, mongoose and the ‘McDonalds of the Bush’ impala!

 

“Dr Livingstone I presume.” Yes, new in 2025 we introduce two nights at Victoria Falls staying at the 5-star Royal

Livingstone Hotel with sightseeing to Victoria Falls and an evening cruise on the Zambezi River, plus an optional round of golf at the Royal Livingstone Golf Club.

 

Lay back and be pampered on the 5-star luxury Rovos Rail as we journey for four days between Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe and Pretoria. Sleep at night to the rhythmic railway sounds in deluxe suites with breakfast, lunch, dinner and an all-day drinks service included.

We then travel to Cape Town for four nights staying at the acclaimed 5-star Queen Victoria Hotel. We visit Robben Island infamous for the ‘hosting’ of Nelson Mandela for 18 years. Up Table Mountain we go in cable cars to view Cape Town 360° panorama and, then on to Fancourt!

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Enjoy checking out this tour, and come join us next April / May in South Africa and Victoria Falls.

 

Many thanks

Denise and Kim - The PaR nz Team
denise@parnz.co.nz | kim@parnz.co.n