WILD LIFE and FULL DAY wine TOUR

WILD LIFE and FULL DAY wine TOUR

Our Wildlife tour was designated firstly and mainly for children from all over the world to see and experience our variety of big cats, crocodiles, snakes including the most dangerous , mambas, cobras and boom slang and other African animals. The tours covers 4 to 5 different locations incorporating the Cheetah Outreach in Firgrove, our most endangered cat.Then the Bird Sanctuary at Spier which is one of the most remarkable displays of the intelligence of the birds, after which we than move to Vredenheim to see their big cats including white lions, Bengal tigers, and a Cape Leopard and Caracal. We then move on to tour the Le Bonheur Crocodile Farm where a swim or dive with the crocodiles is optional.
Finally ending the tour at both Chimpanzee Park with Drakenstein Lion Park a safe haven for distressed and abandoned big cats and if time allows a stop at Giraffe House Wild Life Awareness Centre.

Itinerary
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Stop At: Cheetah Outreach - Somerset West, De Beers Avenue opposite the Somerset Mall, Somerset West 7130 South Africa

Cheetah Outreach - See it sense it save it , the world's fastest and oldest big cat on earth and Africa's most threatened great cat. Come see, touch photograph and be photographed with one of the cheetah's. All the Cheetah`s have been hand raised or saved by the Conservatorium. Tours are literally on the hour. Cheetah Outreach was started in January 1997 by Anne Backhelling on one acre of land provided by Spier Wine Estate and two Cheetahs, they have evolved to providing shelter for abandoned cats and are also now rearing cubs from Cheetah breeding facilities in S.Africa. Cheetah Outreach is now an education and community based programme created to raise awareness of the plight of the Cheetah and to campaign for its survival as they are now very endangered.

Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Vredenheim, Off R310 Baden Powell Drive, Stellenbosch 7600 South Africa

Vredenheim Wild Life and Wine Estate – After seeing the big cats you can do your first wine tasting.
A must see - all the big cats including Bengal Tigers , Lions , including White Lions , Leopard and Caracal including a variety of wild life and game on the farm. Try and make the feeding times while on tour, all in spectacular surroundings with the Stellenbosch mountains in the background

Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Spier Wine Farm, Annandale Road, Stellenbosch 7600 South Africa

Eagle Encounters at Spier Wine Estate where you will have lunch and wine tasting before seeing a amazing display with various birds - Founded by Hank and Tracy Chalmers in 2001. By land donated by Spier farm and vineyards - This wildlife rescue, rehabilitation, conservation education and eco - Tourism centre is a not to be missed once in a life time encounter with large eagles, falcons owls, hawks, buzzards and kites . Not only do they present interactive flying shows with all the different raptors species but simulated a snake hunt with a secretary bird

Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Le Bonheur Reptiles And Adventures, Babylonstoren Road, R45, Simondium, Franschhoek 7670 South Africa

Le Bonheur Crocodile Farm - The domicile of the feared Nile crocodile, with over 1,000 crocodiles, more than one hundred skins, over 10 baby crocodiles and one Albino croc named Snowy, Le Bonheur continues to impress as both a registered breeder with a on-site tannery which supplies catwalks around the world with the latest leather designs in belts, wallets, handbags, furniture and shoes, there is also a retail outlet on the farm merchandising their own belts, wallets, handbags and furniture. Guided tours are on the half hour with feeding times at 11h15 and either at 14h15 or 15h15 depending on the weather. Crocodile dives/swimming are also a feature of Le Bonheur Crocodile farm by appointment.

Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Drakenstein Lion Park, Old Paarl Road Klapmuts, 7599 South Africa

Drakenstein Lion Park - Established in 1998 as a safe haven for lions in distress where they can be cared for in a human way free from abuse and persecution. The park is around 50 acres right in the middle of the Cape Winelands providing shelter, for captive bred and hand reared lions and a lifelong home for these magnificent cats which cannot be rehabilitated to the wild. Drakenstein Lion Park is the only genuine lion sanctuary in the Western Cape with the largest lion population, including rare white lions and which now also includes chimpanzees.

Duration: 1 hour