Personalised Package and Day Tours - Garden Route, Western and Eastern Cape. South Africa tailored to suit your needs and timing specialising in flowers and wildlife for mature and Senior Tours

Nature Touring specialises in personalised tours in South Africa. Our love of remote areas and natural beauty is highlighted in our year-round Karoo tours where we visit nature reserves and private farms, showing off the wonderful diversity of the rich floral kingdom we live in. The flowers you experience on our tours are unique to this part of the world.

We offer flower tours in spring (August to October) to our West Coast, Namaqualand and Karoo regions. As well as year-round tours to the famed Garden Route. Our nature tours incorporate whale watching (in season), big 5 game park tours and scenic ferry trips in Knysna & Plettenberg Bay. Nature Touring is also undertaken in Addo Elephant National Park which has the highest density of elephants in the world, as well as Scotia for our famous big cats.

Our tours are for small parties of up to five people at a time and are given in the comfort of an air-conditioned VW Caravelle 4 Motion and are designed for the more mature tourist. In addition, we provide excellet infra structure support for SEnior Touring on the Garden Route, the Eastern Cape and Senior Touring in all of South Africa.

The Succulent Karoo hotspot, which covers an area of approximately 116,000 km² in Southern Africa, is an appropriate recipient of CEPF (Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund) investment for several reasons. The region's levels of plant diversity and endemism rival those of rain forests, making the Succulent Karoo an extraordinary exception to the low diversity typical of arid areas, and the only arid ecosystem to be recognized as a global biodiversity hotspot. Nearly one-third of the floral species of the region are unique to the hotspot and the region boasts the richest variety of succulent flora in the world (just under one-third). In addition to its floral diversity, the hotspot is a center of diversity for reptiles and many groups of invertebrates.

South Africa is ranked the third most biologically diverse country in the world, mainly because of the wide range of plant species found here.

Two internationally recognised biodiversity hotspots found in South Africa are the Succulent (biome) and the Cape Floristic Kingdom.

The Cape Floristic Kingdom, namely Fynbos Biome, is an entire floral kingdom found nowhere else in the world, while the Succulent Karoo is the only arid land biodiversity hotspot in the world. It has the highest concentration of endemic genera and falls within the winter rainfall region, which is situated in the southern and western parts of South Africa (our area).

Of the world's approximately 10,000 succulent species, more than a third originate from Southern Africa (36%). There are approximately 23,000 indigenous plant species in South Africa of which approximately 3,693 are succulent species, making up 16% of South Africa's total flora.

Personalised tours of South Africa tailored to suit your needs and timing!