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Tours & Safaris

Ashtons offers a wide variety of safaris throughout the Greater Kruger Park. Please consult the categories below for further information.

Garden Route Self Drive Tour

Experience the best of the Garden Route by enjoying the freedom of a self drive tour at your own pace, consisting of car rental and self catering accommodation. Visit Knysna, Plettenberg Bay, The Crags, Storms River and Addo Elephant Park.

Luxuriate in the natural beauty by wandering through winding forest pathways, take pleasure in a boat ride amongst the dolphins or touching a cheetah. Let your adventurous side free with optional activities like Bloukrans Bungy, Waterfall Zipline Tour, Segway Forest Tours and Black water Tubing.

All in you own time on this unique self-drive, self catering tour.

Kruger Shuttle

This quality shuttle service runs between Johannesburg and the greater Hoedspruit area (return) every day. It is the simplest and most affordable way to get between Johannesburg and the Greater Kruger game lodges located in the Timbavati, Klaserie, Balule, Kapama, Thornybush, Guernsey, Manyeleti and northern Sabi Sand reserves, as well as those located in the Karongwe and Makalali Reserves and close to Hoedspruit itself

Storms River, Garden Route Accommodation

"The Garden of The Garden Route" as the Storms River area is known. Located in the beautiful Tsitsikamma Forest and close to Storms River mouth, a visit to this area and to Ashtons' delightful three star Lodge is a must for travellers in this area. Where forest meets ocean and wildlife and birds abound, there are many hiking and walking trails, including the famous Otter Trail.

Game Drive & Walking Safaris

On a Kruger Walking Safari you are out there with the African wildlife, sharing their paths and waterholes, the daily drama’s of their lives, sharing their space. Follow their tracks, feel the tingle of your own senses and hear the beating of your heart as you edge closer to a herd of elephant resting in the shade. At night, sleep in an unfenced camp with only the canvas or wooden wall between you and the African bush. Breathe Africa!

Garden Route Guided Tours

Select from a variety of guided Garden Route Tours. Your choices are many, including the type of accommodation you prefer. Tours of up to 5 days are available, covering the main interest points of the Garden Route and even including a stop at the famous Addo Elephant Park. All tours are accompanied by professional guides and transported in comfortable, air-conditioned  mini-buses.

Balule Game Lodges

The Balule Game Reserve is part of the Greater Kruger park and shares unfenced borders with the Klaserie reserve and Kruger National Park itself. Together with the Timbavati Reserve, these reserves form a vast traversing area that allows the plains game to move unhindered between water sources and grazing areas and the predators are free to follow them. This is a prime Big 5 reserve with plentiful wildlife throughout its 30 000 hectares. The beautiful Olifants River flows through the reserve in the north and Balule is home to several high quality game lodges offering guided game activities that go in daily search of the magnificent wildlife.