Hello Everyone! As a long time lurker, I've been waiting for the day where I would get the opportunity to contribute to the TR subsection of our forum here at Flyertalk. I have tons and tons of trips that I've taken that I will be publishing in the coming month. I'm a bit unsure of if we're allowed to post links as the report is quite dense in terms of number of images and quality. I've published them on my own website. Any input and feedback both on the web design and the actual trip report would be welcome. With that now out of the way, I'd love to jump into the actual trip.


Route Planning & Itinerary
Towards the tail end of the Covid 19 pandemic, quite a few airlines began promoting “back to normalcy“ across a number of countries globally. In particular KLM / Air France offered incredible fares originating out of numerous ports in Canada at roughly $2000-2300 CAD per person in Business! What a steal. Having never been to any African country at that point, I jumped on the opportunity to book a ticket for my mother and I to visit Cape Town, South Africa. Routing was quite simple with KLM. YYZ-AMS-CPT and the return was CPT-AMS-YYZ with a stopover in Amsterdam for a night to break up our journey.

Normally, I don’t use any sort of travel agency or guide to help with itinerary building. However, after a bit of research, I realized that there were numerous towns and cities that we had to stop over on while exploring the Garden Route. For this reason we worked with a government accredited tour company in Cape Town to get us a tour guide / driver to help us get us around within the city and regionally. We would be spending first 4 nights in Cape Town before heading off to Oudtshoorn. We would then head further South East to Knysna and Tsitsikamma National Park. We would then turn back towards Cape Town stopping in Wilderness, Albertina for a Game Safari, and then onwards to Hermanus. Our final two days were spent in Stellenbosch before we caught our flight back to Amsterdam. Our time in Amsterdam was cold and short, just one night, but it was stunning as always. The final sector was our nonstop from Amsterdam back to Toronto. Hope you enjoy the report.

Link to the Report: https://www.gatetosky.com/trip-reports/southafrica23