Five days or so that includes lions and elephants

Post date: 2018-09-18 12:17:00

I have an unexpected opportunity to visit South Africa in late October/early November. I have work stuff for a week and then I can stay on for up to a week and do some sightseeing. I really want to see lions and elephants in the wild. But the number of possible places and tours to do this on is overwhelming. Can anyone give some personal recommendations?

The work trip involves Durban and then Pretoria, then I'll be flying out of Johannesburg. The sightseeing will happen between when I finish up in Pretoria and leave from Johannesburg.

My preference would be to only stay for about four extra days but it could stretch to a week if necessary.

I am a woman and might be traveling on my own if I can't persuade my husband to tag along, so safety is important. I also would prefer options towards the budget end of the spectrum but I don't think I'm up for self driving (seems like it would be too dangerous).

I've looked through old metafilter questions about visiting South Africa and the general advice seems to be to just go to Cape Town. I see there are single day tours to Pilanesberg out of Johannesburg. Would you recommend I do that like the day before I leave and otherwise spend the rest of my sightseeing time in Capetown instead of doing a multi-day Safari?

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