Somewhere between Cape Point and the point where Africa ends, Cape Agulhas, two huge currents meet: The cold Benguela current from the Atlantic Ocean and the warm Agulhas Current of the Indian Ocean. There are responsible for the micro-climate of the Cape and its complete region. The area has seen countless maritime disasters over the last centuries and is still the second most windiest, dangerous and feared place in the World after Cape Horn.
Description
It is believed that some people of the San (today’s Bushmen) split and left their Northern territories around Botswana to move south. The Khoi-Khoi tribe, as they were called, was around the Cape Peninsula for many years. They had constant clashes with Portuguese, Dutch and British seamen or survivors of shipwrecks.
On April 06, 1652 history changed for this region. The Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck, landed with his ships, 10 days before his birthday, with the order from the Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie (VOC), Dutch East India Company to erect a fort and to establishes a refreshment station and a hospital. The route between Amsterdam and India needed an in-between stop to provide them with fresh water, fruits, vegetables and meat.
Discover the Rainbow Nation!
This was the beginning of Cape Town. The details will be unveiled to you on this tour and you’ll be able to make you own picture. It is fascinating and inspiring.
We invite you to an unique stress free adventure: a Cape Town city tour, find the tracks of the French Protestants the Huguenots, witness unmatched Nature, Flora and Fauna, watch a 180 degrees Star-Sky in the Karoo, search to the Southern Cross, meet over 1’000 years old Yellow-Wood trees, there is lots to observe and to fall in love with.
Huge contrasts between the modern world and places where time has stopped a few hundred years ago; that make this country so mysterious and very interesting.
Touring highlights
Time to discover ancient/old and new/modern, unique experiences and positive surprises that only an insider can show you,
Cape Good Hope, Table Mountain, Seal-island, penguins, wineries visits and wine tasting, bobotie, Wales’s observation-boat trip (depending on the season), Route 62, lots of attractive passes, private ostrich farm visit with farmer, 4×4 Safari in game reserve, shongololo, Garden Route, Karoo semi desert, mieliepap, boerewors, biltong, droëwors…
Riding skills for this Tour
2 – 3 Intermediate to Advanced, can be adapted to your personal skills
See riding skills
Services
Our starting price includes
- All accommodations in authentic, upper scale and small hotels, guesthouses or lodges mostly with swimming pool
- Daily breakfast
- Fifteen dinner including non-alcoholic beverage
- Rental of the motorcycle Class B
- Basic motorcycle insurance
- Parking fees and highway toll
- The fuel of the rented motorcycle used while riding with the tour-guide
- Toll fees for the passes, tunnels, highways
- All transfers
- City tour of Cape Town
- Entries fees to the games reserves and national parks
- Two days safari in a game reserve all included (4×4 game drives, activities, meals,…)
- Visits to the wine farm and wine tasting
- A unique walking safari for «early birds» (wake-up call, one hour before sunrise)
- Tourist Taxes and VAT (value added tax)
- Escort vehicle for one suitcase per participant and selected drinks and sandwiches during the tour days
- Multilingual guide and registered South African Tour-guides
- Information package, checklists and briefings
Not included in our starting price are
- Any expenses or items which are not mentioned as included
- Hotel and Restaurant gratuities
- All personal expenses
At a glance
| Starting price per rider | CHF 9’990.- based on 6 riders |
| Tour-Starts in |
Cape Town |
| Tour-Ends in |
Cape Town |
| Tour dates | You choose! Together with your friends, you tell me when you want to start your journey |
| Total duration of journey | 14 full days in South Africa, without travel / flying time |
| Riding days | 12 days |
| Possible resting days | Three days are possible, no hotels change, various day-tours are available |
| Accommodations | In selected, unique and smaller hotels, lodges and guesthouses |
| Total length of tour | 2’630 – 2’875 km (1’635 – 1’787 miles) |
| Average distance per day | 160 – 380 km (160 – 236 miles) |
| Riding hours per day | 4 – 7 hrs. |
| Best time and price valid for | September 2024 until the end of April 2025, no tours during the South African Christmas holidays (Mid-December 2024 to Mid-January 2025) |
