Ready-made plans
Custom planning is temporarily unavailable for this route. Ready-made plans are still available.
Home › Journeys › The Panorama Route & Kruger › 7 days
The Panorama Route & Kruger: 7-Day Plan You Can Actually Drive
Last updated:
The 7-day version for June: every day fits real transit, opening hours and daylight.
💡 Good to know for this plan
- Drier months usually make road travel and viewpoints easier to plan, but mist can obscure the escarpment and wildlife sightings are never guaranteed.
- Light day: day 4 has one stop and time left over. Local tours and day trips are the way to fill it — each day links to what is bookable in its own town.
Before you go · check live details
This is a planning draft. Check these changing details for your dates before booking or travelling.
Some route advice is currently available in English.
- Check current roads, gates, weather and attraction access
Immediately before travel, check South African road and weather notices, MTPA access for the Panorama sites, and SANParks notifications and gate times. Re-route or postpone around closures, flooding, fire, mist or unsafe road conditions.
Check source ↗ - Confirm the loop car, fuel plan and every overnight
Confirm one suitable insured vehicle for the complete Johannesburg loop, rental permission for Kruger, tyre and fuel range, roadside support and every overnight. Do not start with a vehicle or stay that is only assumed.
Check source ↗ - Follow Kruger vehicle, gate and speed rules.
Remain in the vehicle except at designated places, keep doors closed, obey 50 km/h tar and 40 km/h gravel limits, and return before the published gate closing time. The route never promises a wildlife sighting.
Check source ↗
Day 1 Johannesburg
- Transit
- 3h22
- Finish
- ~14:25
- Temperature
- 1.4°C–16.4°C
- Rainy days
- ~1
- Daylight
- 10.4h
Day 2 Graskop
- Transit
- 2h29
- Finish
- ~16:30
- Temperature
- 5.4°C–19.4°C
- Rainy days
- ~1
- Daylight
- 10.5h
Day 3 Around Graskop
- Transit
- none
- Finish
- ~16:00
- Temperature
- 5.4°C–19.4°C
- Rainy days
- ~1
- Daylight
- 10.5h
Day 4 Kruger
- Transit
- 1h57
- Finish
- ~12:00
- Temperature
- 11.8°C–25.8°C
- Rainy days
- ~1
- Daylight
- 10.5h
Time to spare on this day
One stop and a free afternoon. We don't book activities, but these partners do.
Day 5 Around Kruger
- Transit
- none
- Finish
- ~16:00
- Temperature
- 11.8°C–25.8°C
- Rainy days
- ~1
- Daylight
- 10.5h
Day 6 Around Kruger
- Transit
- none
- Finish
- ~16:00
- Temperature
- 11.8°C–25.8°C
- Rainy days
- ~1
- Daylight
- 10.5h
Day 7 Kruger → Johannesburg
- Transit
- 6h26
- Finish
- ~15:30
- Temperature
- 11.8°C–25.8°C
- Rainy days
- ~1
- Daylight
- 10.5h
🔍 Check before you book
Every stop is a real, sourced place, but opening hours change, roads close and businesses move. Check anything you're paying for before you book.
Sources (6)
- Constitution Hill orientation — constitutionhill.org.zaOfficial site facts; factual extraction and original paraphrase
- Panorama waterfalls and Graskop circuit — mpumalanga.comOfficial provincial tourism facts; factual extraction and original paraphrase
- Blyde River Canyon scenic circuit — mpumalanga.comOfficial provincial tourism and parks facts; factual extraction and original paraphrase
- Wikivoyage — Kruger National ParkCC BY-SA 4.0 (facts extracted; prose not redistributed)
- Kruger south-west self-drive circuit — sanparks.orgOfficial SANParks visitor facts; factual extraction and original paraphrase
- Kruger Sabie River self-drive circuit — sanparks.orgOfficial SANParks visitor facts; factual extraction and original paraphrase