Days 2 - 3

Mashatu Private Game Reserve, Botswana

After breakfast transfer to a small regional airport, and board your private aircraft for Mashatu Game Reserve. In the eastern corner of Botswana this private reserve is home to elephants, buffaloes, lions, eland antelopes and giraffes. Here your active outdoor explorations begin with walking safaris, game drives, and night drives. Your lodge is a refuge of unparalleled "bushveld" comfort and service, blending in harmoniously with the game lands and teeming wildlife.

Mashatu also allows you to design your day with a variety of specialized optional outdoor activities (available at an extra cost) including elephant and leopard drives with a field researcher, archaeological drives, mountain bike safaris, and horse back safaris.

Lodging:Mashatu Safari Lodge

Day 6

Chobe National Park, Botswana

After a morning of game viewing, fly by private air to Botswana's most northerly town, Kasane, then take a short game drive along the Chobe river before checking into your lodge overlooking the river. This evening explore the river and its game-rich floodplains by boat. Renowned for its large concentrations of elephants, lions, buffaloes, and zebras, Chobe also offers sights of bathing elephants and glowing red sunsets.

Lodging:Chobe Game Lodge

Days 10 - 11

Victoria Falls and Livingstone, Zambia

Today take a special flight-seeing journey. From the Lower Zambezi follow the river valley. Fly over Lake Kariba and the gorges and rapids of the middle Zambezi, ending with the river's crown jewel - the mile wide Victoria Falls. Circling the falls offers superb photographic opportunities, before landing at Livingstone. This evening take a short sunset walk along trails through the rain forest of the Falls, and tomorrow you can choose from a variety of activities - kayaking on the Upper Zambezi, visit a local village or the Livingstone Museum, or the colorful Maramba market.

Lodging:Royal Livingstone Hotel

Days 12 - 13

Grootbos Private Nature Reserve, Hermanus

Fly to the Cape coast and the marine wildlife wonderland, Grootbos. Here marine specialists will take you out on Walker Bay to see great white sharks and 40-ton Southern Right whales, only feet from your boat. Or you can admire the underwater antics of a 60,000 strong Cape Fur Seal colony.

Large suites give guests a chance to unwind, surrounded by the splendors of nature and pampered by all the comforts of home. Each suite has its own secluded balcony from which to admire the Indian Ocean, and winding pathways guide you through milkwood forests from the privacy of your suite to the main lodge. Drawing inspiration from the abundance of nature around them, their chefs also conjure up magical combinations - fish caught on that day and fresh homegrown vegetables, all enhanced with fresh flavors from the lodge's flourishing herb garden.

Explore this pristine coastline on foot or by four-wheel drive vehicle. You can also take a horse ride, lend a hand in the vegetable garden, or simply spend an afternoon exploring tidal rock pools and coastal caves, and lazing on a private swimming beach while enjoying a freshly packed picnic. Guests can also engage with their unique Green Futures community project that provides practical-based training programs for unemployed people in the fields of fynbos landscaping, horticulture, and eco-tourism.

Days 14 - 16

Cape Peninsula and Cape Town

After two days at Grootbos, drive through the scenic winelands to Cape Town, and enjoy lunch at a winery in Franchoek. When in Cape Town discover a vibrant culture living among one of the most diverse floral kingdoms on Earth. Walk Kirstenbosch's botanical gardens, take a cable car to the top of Table Mountain, and visit infamous Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela was incarcerated.