Complete your volunteering experience in South Africa – with a Garden Route Adventure!
Looking for ways to keep the adventure going while you’re in South Africa? 🌍✨
We’re thrilled to offer our marine conservation volunteers the chance to join an unforgettable Garden Route Adventure, once you’ve completed your volunteering programme. It’s the perfect way to celebrate your impact, explore more of this beautiful country, and create memories that will last a lifetime.
The Garden Route Adventure departs every Monday and runs for 5 or 6 action-packed days. The 5-day option takes you all the way to Port Elizabeth, travelling along the world-famous Garden Route and soaking up breathtaking scenery along the way. Prefer to loop back? The 6-day option follows the same incredible itinerary but returns you to Cape Town at the end of the journey.
If you’d like to join this awesome Garden Route Adventure, just let us know as soon as possible and we’ll take care of everything. Accommodation is arranged in fun, social backpacker dorms as standard – but private upgrades are available do do ask if you think you would like this! Below you will find more information and prices, but if you have any questions, don’t hesitate to ask one of the Oyster Worldwide team!
5 day Garden Route Adventure:
- Collects you from the shark project on your last Monday of the project
- Drops you off in Port Elizabeth on Friday afternoon
- Prices start from £695 in shared backpacker accommodation
- Upgrades to private and en-suite rooms available
6 day Garden Route Adventure:
- Collects you from the shark project on your last Monday of the project
- Drops you off in Cape Town on Saturday evening
- Prices from £795 in shared backpacker accommodation
- Upgrades to private and en-suite rooms available
Garden Route Adventure Itinerary:
Day 1: Monday
- Collection from the shark conservation project
- Transfer to Cape Agulhas, the most southern point of Africa
Day 2: Tuesday
- Drive the spectacular Route 62, the longest wine route in South Africa
- Visit the Ostrich Capital of the World
- Lunch and wine tasting at a local winery
- Check into accommodation on a working game farm in Little Karoo
- Evening tour of the Ostrich farm, taking in the views of the Outeniqua and
Swartberg mountain ranges in the background.
Day 3: Wednesday
- Drive over the Outeniqua Mountain pass to Wilderness National Park
- Explore the park by canoe, paddling up the river through indigenous forest
- Take a short hike to a lovely waterfall and rock pools
- Late afternoon you can spend exploring Sedgefield, with
its expansive views and beaches.
Day 4: Thursday
- Today, we head to the famous town of Knysna via the Lake District of the Garden Route. Visit the Knysna Heads viewpoint, for some magnificent views over the Knysna River estuary and the Indian Ocean
- Stop off at Bloukrans Bridge to visit the world’s highest bungee jump – and do it if you dare!
- Visit Tsitsikamma National Park, with lots of hiking, beautiful coastline, crossing a suspension bridge, swimming and more
- In the afternoon will leave the Garden Route for Big 5 country, Addo
Day 5: Friday (end of tour for 5 day participants)
- Explore Addo Elephant Park, a reserve covering 28,000 hectares. It is home to approximately 600 elephants and also some Cape buffalo, lions, black rhino, warthogs, zebra, eland, kudu, hartebeest and more.
- If you are heading to Port Elizabeth to end the tour, you will leave after you visit Addo around lunchtime.
Day 6: Saturday (for those travelling back to Cape Town only)
- After breakfast you will travel on to Mossel Bay to visit its spectacular beaches and cliffs
- Hike the Cape St Blaize Trail along the cliffs overlooking the Indian Ocean and visit the famous Diaz Museum, commemorating the first known European exploration around the tip of Africa
- You have the option to join a 10,000 foot tandem skydive or do sandboarding on the longest dune in South Africa
- You will arrive back to Cape Town in the evening
Please note, this itinerary may need to change based on weather and other factors.
The admin
Both Garden Route Adventure tours offer you:
- Qualified driver and guide
- All transport in an air conditioned mini bus
- Accommodation
- Dinners and breakfasts (except on Day 5)
- Local wine tasting, Ostrich farm visit,
- Canoeing and hiking in Wilderness National Park
- Game viewing safari in Addo Elephant National Park
- Hiking in Tsktsikamma National Park
What’s not included in the Garden Route Adventure tour:
- Lunches
- Breakfast and dinner on Day 5 (dinner day 6)
- Optional activities: bungee jumping, additional game drive at Addo, tandem sky diving, sandboarding, ziplining
- Day 4: • Bungee jumping (216 m): R 1490
- Day 5: • 2-hour additional Addo game drive (open vehicle, early morning): R 460
- Day 6: • Tandem sky diving (10,000 feet): R 3150 (R 980 extra for photos & video) • Sandboarding: R 500 • Ocean ziplining: R 800(Please note that we have done our best to provide accurate pricing, but these prices are subject to change!)
- Insurance
You will take in all of the main tourist sights in this area of South Africa. The Garden Route is renowned to be a jaw-droppingly beautiful part of the country, and an area that is not to be missed!
