Ease gently into Africa by staying at Cape Town’s best beach hotel on the trendy Camps Bay boulevard. No need to drive anywhere because you step outside the Bay Hotel straight onto a café-lined boulevard immediately facing the beach, bordered along its entire length by palm trees. Lying on the beach looking towards your hotel, you notice the imposing range of mountain peaks known as the Twelve Apostles. The whole setting is very beautiful and is where Experience Africa has their headquarters. This environment is what inspires us to create stunning African holiday itineraries for you. The tempo of your Africa Gold 10-night trip starts to increase, with some early morning game drives in the Sabi Sand Game Reserve, on the border of Kruger National Park. Ulusaba is Richard Branson’s safari lodge and you get to share in his piece of African bush, where leopards and lion are often sighted. Three nights in the heart of this African big game reserve, should reveal all the animals you ever wanted to see. Jetting north, Victoria Falls is next on the itinerary as this is a “must see” while you are in Africa. Nothing quite matches the sensation of perching on the edge of this enormous chasm and feeling the power of the water vibrate through the very rocks upon which you stand. We place you in the Royal Livingstone Hotel so that you are close enough to walk to the Zambian side of Victoria Falls before breakfast. It only takes a few minutes from your room and is a uniquely African way to wake up. The finale of this whirlwind Southern Africa 10-night Gold tour itinerary is the boutique houseboat hotel, The Zambezi Queen. It is a marvel of interior design and eco-friendly technology and floats grandly on a mooring in the middle of the Chobe River. Namibia is on one bank and Botswana is on the other and the Zambezi Queen has permission to enter either water-space. As a result the little tender boats get you very close to elephants on the river banks, which often congregate in their hundreds. Here’s a closer look at each of the accommodation options in this special itinerary: