South Africa
Port Elizabeth To Cape Town
€16,645 per person
8 Nights: 6-14 May, 2025
Explore South Africa’s rugged beauty from behind the wheel of our ultimate 4X4. We’ve planned the perfect South African adventure. From Addo Elephant National Park in the east. To vibrant capital. En route, exclusive access to private estates. Multiple biomes. Each with its own climate, flora and fauna. And some of the best food, wine and hospitality this welcoming nation has to offer. Off-road adventures. Sole use of hand-picked, intimate, boutique accommodation. Countless memories. Join us for the journey of a lifetime. Just one of the expeditions inspired by Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s Namibian adventures.
Quintessentially South African.
Unmistakably Grenadier.
Day One – Tuesday, 6 May
Port Elizabeth
Arrive at Chief Dawid Stuurman International Airport, in Port Elizabeth, collect your INEOS Grenadier, and take your first short drive to your hotel for your first two nights, Riverbend Lodge in Addo Elephant Park, the country’s third largest game reserve. Where 5-star luxury meets old world charm, it’s a wonderful setting to get acclimatised, before a full trip briefing and dinner. The next day, you’ll head out for a guided game drive, with further opportunities for wine tasting in the world, and optional spa treatments to unwind.
Spend your first two nights at Riverbend Lodge. Find out more by exploring the hotspots below.
Highlights
- INEOS Grenadier walkaround
- Dinner at the lodge
- Trip briefing
40 minutes
airport>hotel road
75 km
Day Three – Thursday, 8 May
Addo To Zandvlakte
Leaving the Addo Elephant Nation Park, you’ll head west, through the Karoo plains and towards the Baviaanskloof Wilderness area. Here, steep mountain passes, and river crossings, will provide your toughest driving challenges yet, and spectacular views of Cockscomb Peak. To our evening retreat: Zandvlakte, a working farm where we’ll dine under the stars.
- Addo National Park
- Population of over 600 elephants
- The Big Five
- Stunning mountain passes
5 hours
light trails
230 km
Baviaanskloof wilderness area
Zandvlakte
Addo
Day Four – Friday, 9 May
Zandvlakte To Wilderness
We’ll take the rugged, dusty tracks of the Baviaanskloof Mountains, to Uniondale, a quaint country village in the Little Karoo. Before climbing the Outeniqua Mountains and the Prince Albert Pass. And descending towards the lagoon town of Knysna. Then, through rich mountain forests, and on to the historic 7 Passes route towards Wilderness, and our next accommodation.
Spend the night at Stay Wilderness and Beach Villa, Wilderness.
Highlights
- 7 Passes scenic drive
- Baviaanskloof Nature Reserve
- Stay at a working farm
- Dine under the stars
3.4 hours
back country
250 km
Baviaanskloof Mountains
Outeniqua Mountains
Prince Alfred Pass
Knysna
7 passes
Stay Wilderness
Day Five – Saturday, 10 May
Wilderness To Rogge Kloof
Climb up out of George towards Montagu Pass. Then on to the Cango Caves and the town of Prince Albert. Before reaching the Swartberg Pass, and down to the expansive plains of the Great Karoo. Before climbing into the Roggeveld Mountains.
Spend the night at Rogge Kloof.
Highlights
- Scenic mountains
- Breathtaking caves
- Prince Alfred Pass
- Flying visit to the town of Prince Albert
5 hours
gravel
350 km
Montagu’s Pass
Cango Caves
Swartberg Pass
Great Karoo
Roggeveld Mountains
Rogge Kloof
Day Six – Sunday, 11 May
Rogge Kloof To Bushman’s Kloof
After breakfast, you’ll descend out of the the Great Karoo’s plateaus. Down through the Roggevel Mountains. Into the Tankwa Karoo Valley, a remote, tranquil national park featuring its own unique flora and fauna. Then west through the Cedarberg mountains, on a beautiful gravel track called the Old Postal Route.
Spend two nights at Bushman’s Kloof Reserve and Wellness Retreat.
Highlights
- Visit the SALT Telescope
- Tankwa Karoo National Park
- The Great Karoo
5 hours
dirt road
250 km
Tankwa Karoo
The Old Postal Route
Bushman’s Kloof
Day Eight – Tuesday, 13 May
Bushman’s Kloof To Cape Town
Head down through the Bidou Valley and Wuppertal. Down through the beautiful Cederberg mountains, where the dirt turns to tarmac. Through fruit-farming town, Ceres. Through the Drakenstein mountains and Bain’s Kloof Pass. Into the Western Cape Winelands. Stunning landscapes, as historic towns, farmsteads and hamlets rush by, in the shadow of jagged Cape peaks. Before turning on to South Africa’s longest road, but for only 57km, for the final push towards Cape Town, where you’ll spend the night at Table Bay Hotel.
Highlights
- Lunch at Bushman’s Kloof
- Cederberg Mountains
- Western Cape Winelands
3 hours
tarmac/gravel
260 km
Cederberg Wilderness
Bain’s Kloof Pass
Western Cape Winelands
Cape Town
Please be aware that your contract for the expedition shall be through an external company and not with INEOS Automotive, who disclaim liability to the fullest extent permitted by any applicable law for your participation in this activity. The provision of your personal data in the form above is a request by you to provide this external company with your personal information in order for you to take steps to enter into a contract for the expedition.
External company details: Magalena Corporation, 203 Allied Building, Francis Rachel Street, P.O. Box 381, Victoria, Seychelles.
Images included above are purely indicative, and do not specifically depict photography from the expedition route.