Africa is one of the most beautiful continents in the world that you can visit in 2025. While Africa is known for its safari experiences, there are actually a lot more to do on the continent.
Award-winning luxury travel company, Ker & Downey® Africa, offers some of the best itineraries in the said region for 2025, where you can visit different destinations that offer beautiful and heartwarming experiences to travelers. If you want to know more, here are the things you should expect for a 10-day itinerary with Ker & Downey® Africa.
What is Ker & Downey® Africa?
Before we get into one of the best itineraries proposed by Ker & Downey® Africa, we should first find out about the company. Ker & Downey® Africa is a tour operator company based in Cape Town, USA, UK and Tanzania, it is dedicated to creating customers’ luxury custom safari experiences around the African continent. Ker & Downey® Africa focuses on creating “individually-inspired travel experiences” where clients can customize where they want to go and how they can maximize their tour in a specific location.
What’s great about Ker & Downey® Africa is that they partner with sustainable luxury lodges, hotels, and tented camps. These places offer eco-friendly accommodations that support conservation efforts and empower local communities.
A Wonderful Experience at Cape Town
For the first four days of your sustainable tour in Africa, Ker & Downey®Africa suggests spending in themCape Town, where you will stay at the Belmond Mount Nelson Hotel, a luxury hotel located in the Gardens neighbourhood of the capital. The hotel is overlooked by Table Mountain, a magnificent flat-topped mountain that serves as a prominent landmark of Cape Town.
During your stay in Cape Town, you will be able to visit all the gourmet restaurants in the capital, which gives you the opportunity to try the best foods that the region has to offer. You may also try thrilling experiences like whale watching and shark cage diving.
If you have free time, you can visit the Bongolethu Primary School, a project of the OKOA Fund, a foundation that focuses on global preservation of habitats for people and animals.
The OKOA Fund partners with Ker & Downey® Africa, along with other companies and organizations, to get donations and ensure that the funds are properly distributed to numerous projects (like the Bongolethu Primary School) around the world.
Besides the OKOA Fund, Ker & Downey® Africa also partnered with Greenpop, an NGO (non-government organization) that prioritizes forest restoration and urban greening. Every itinerary booking from Ker & Downey® Africa includes a $8 donation to Greenpop, which would then help plant trees in Malawi, Tanzania, South Africa, and Zambia.
A Three-Day Stay at Leeu Estates
After four days in Cape Town, Ker & Downey® Africa offers a private helicopter to fly to the South African village of Franschhoek, where you will stay for three days at Leeu Estates. The Leeu Estates is a five-star hotel that features magnificent vineyards, breathtaking landscape gardens, and gorgeous fynbos.
The lush vineyards and gardens also provide most of the ingredients used by the hotel’s chefs, which means that the dishes they prepare are fresh from the farm to your fork.
At the Leeu Estates, you will be treated to a private tasting experience, as well as a day at the spa where you can relax and unwind. If you want to, you can also go outside the Leeu Estates and enjoy the various sights and sounds of Franschhoek.
An Exciting Safari Adventure at Jabulani
For the last three days of your tour in Africa, you will stay at Jabulani, a traditional safari lodge located within the Kruger National Park in South Africa.
At Jabulani, you can enjoy various safari experiences like game drives, which are guided tours where you can observe various animals and birds in an off-road car. You can also enjoy nature walks that are much more intimate and relaxing compared to game drives, which are designed for those who want to seek thrills.
Within Jabulani, you can also visit HERD, which is South Africa’s first elephant orphanage and sanctuary. As of January 2025, there are 16 elephants inside the sanctuary, and you can learn about the heartwarming and often heartbreaking stories of each of the sanctuary’s elephants during your visit.
Through HERD, you will be able to have a deeper appreciation of the efforts that organizations make to ensure that animals and their habitats are given sufficient care and importance.
Conclusion
Ker & Downey® Africa provides some of the best travel itineraries for 2025, and the one we mentioned below will surely be fun and exciting for those who want to experience the beauty of Cape Town, the wonderful fresh dishes at the Leeu Estates, and the thrilling safari adventure at Jabulani.
What’s great about Ker & Downey® Africa is that their itineraries are fully customizable, so you can easily adjust the itinerary depending on the places you want to visit and how you are going to visit them. Be sure to contact Ker & Downey® Africa for more information on their customizable travel itineraries.