Golf & Safaris · Southern Africa
The Garden Route & Eastern Cape
Six days of championship golf, the coast and the wild
Golf & Safaris · Southern Africa
Six days of championship golf, the coast and the wild
What stays with a guest is rarely the full itinerary, but a handful of particular moments. These are the three this journey is built around.
The Links at Fancourt and Humewood are the two finest links courses in South Africa, and this journey plays both inside a week.
The flight inland runs low over untouched Eastern Cape coastline — quiet beaches, dunes to the horizon, and whales and dolphins below more often than not.
Tracking cheetah on foot is a different proposition to watching from a vehicle. You walk in behind a guide and a tracker, and the animal decides how close the morning gets.
The finest links golf in South Africa, a bird's eye view of the Eastern Cape from the coast to the wild, and an exclusive retreat in the bush.
Six days in two chapters, from the fairways above George to a private reserve in the Eastern Cape.
| Day | Experience | Where You Stay |
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The Garden Route
Three nights at Fancourt, and three very different courses on one estate.
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| 1 | Arrival & Montagu Arrive George (GRJ) and transfer to Fancourt · Check in to Fancourt · Round one on Montagu · Dinner at your leisure |
Fancourt HotelGeorge |
| 2 | Outeniqua & the Cellar Morning round on Outeniqua · Afternoon at leisure · A special tasting and wine pairing dinner |
Fancourt HotelGeorge |
| 3 | The Links Final Garden Route round on The Links at Fancourt, the championship course · Farewell dinner at Fancourt |
Fancourt HotelGeorge |
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The Eastern Cape
East to Algoa Bay for a links round, then inland by air to the reserve.
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| 4 | Humewood & the Reserve Check out of Fancourt · Morning flight to Gqeberha · Round at Humewood Golf Club · Helicopter to Buffalo Kloof · Check in to Rhino House on an exclusive-use basis · Dinner at the House George (GRJ) → Gqeberha (PLZ) · Scheduled · ~1 hr Gqeberha → Buffalo Kloof · Helicopter · ~40 min |
Rhino HouseBuffalo Kloof · Exclusive use |
| 5 | Cheetah on Foot Morning tracking cheetah on foot with a dedicated guide and tracker · Afternoon game drive · Dinner at Rhino House |
Rhino HouseBuffalo Kloof · Exclusive use |
| 6 | Farewell Morning guided bush walk · Breakfast at the House · Road transfer to Gqeberha for departure flights Buffalo Kloof → Gqeberha (PLZ) · Road · ~120 km / 1 hr 30 |
Departure |
Two properties, each chosen for what the days on either side of it ask for.
The five-star hotel at the centre of a 1,500-acre estate, with all three championship courses, the spa and the indoor pool a short walk from the door.
Taken whole for the party's two nights, with its own guide, tracker and vehicle. Malaria-free, and close enough to Gqeberha that the last morning still allows a walk before the drive out.
Four rounds — three on one estate, deliberately different from each other, and one true links on Algoa Bay.
Parkland golf beneath the Outeniqua mountains, and the gentlest of the three Fancourt tests — the right course to open on after a morning of travel.
The second of the estate's parkland courses, more open than Montagu and a fair test in the morning wind before the afternoon turns to the cellar.
Ranked number one in South Africa, and the reason most parties come to Fancourt. Played third, once the group has found its rhythm on the estate.
One of the few genuine links in South Africa, laid along the dunes above Algoa Bay. Played on the morning the party moves east, before the flight inland.
The hours between the rounds — the flight inland, the reserve on foot, and the game drives that close each day.
West to east across the Cape — George to Gqeberha by scheduled flight, on to the reserve by helicopter, and back by road for departure.
Scheduled flight Helicopter Road
Complete transparency on what this journey covers — and the few things it does not.
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