Arrival in Cape Town. You are met at the airport by your tour guide and taken to your accommodation. Short briefing over a welcome drink and a chance to freshen up in your accommodation. Depending on when you arrive in Cape Town, we will plan the programme accordingly.
Weather permitting, we first take the cable car up Table Mountain. From the 1,086 m high mountain there is a fantastic view of Cape Town and the Cape Peninsula.
Then it’s on to the alternative district of Woodstock. In the former working-class and industrial area, artists have set up their studios, and designers, cabinet-makers and decorators also create their unique pieces there.
Next we drive through many small streets to the historic District Six. Around 1966 the government declared this district a “white zone”, allegedly because too much crime emanated from the neighbourhood, and in 1968 ordered the forced removal of its Black and Coloured residents. The district was completely cleared and the houses demolished. You will be surprised how it has changed.
Via the government district we continue to Bo-Kaap. In the former residential quarter of slaves from Malaysia and Java, the noisy, cheerful, cosmopolitan heart of Cape Town beats. In Bo-Kaap the houses glow in the brightest colours.
Now our city tour leads through Tamboerskloof with its typically Victorian architecture to the Waterfront. Perhaps you will spend the late afternoon/evening at the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront, a part of Cape Town’s harbour that has been transformed into an extensive entertainment and shopping district with numerous restaurants, bars, live-music venues and attractive shops.
It is then a good idea to take a catamaran boat trip, but in any case to end the evening in one of the great restaurants on the Waterfront.
Our first stop on our drive around the Cape Peninsula is Muizenberg. In this place, known among surfers, we take photos in front of the famous colourful wooden beach huts on the beach.
We continue through St James with its insider shops, galleries and junk shops to the harbours of Simon’s Town and Kalk Bay. We watch the colourful bustle of the fishermen and fishwives and visit the penguins at Boulders Beach.
Our route continues around the Cape Peninsula to the “Cape of Good Hope”. Here you can walk from the lighthouse to Cape Point and enjoy the particularly beautiful view of the unique nature.
The way back leads via Misty Cliffs, Kommetjie and Noordhoek onto the famous Chapman’s Peak Drive, one of the most beautiful coastal roads in the world. From there it continues via Hout Bay to Camps Bay, where we linger briefly by the sea before taking you to your accommodation.
Or you decide to end the day in one of the many restaurants in Camps Bay and enjoy the sunset over dinner. The way home can be arranged very easily by taxi.
Today you enjoy your day with tastings of award-winning wines at beautifully located wine estates. First we drive over magnificent mountain passes through the vineyards to Franschhoek.
Cape Governor Simon van der Stel gave this region to Huguenot families who had had to flee France. The “Fransch” then founded Franschhoek, which even today is reminiscent of a Provençal village.
After a short stroll we taste the first-class wines of the La Motte or Grande Provence wine estate. On our way to Stellenbosch we visit the architecturally striking Delaire wine estate. It is beautifully situated between Stellenbosch and Franschhoek on the highest peak of the Helshoogte Pass.
Now the university town and second-oldest town in South Africa, Stellenbosch, with its many listed buildings and nice lanes, invites us to a little stroll.
On our way back we stop at the Waterford wine estate. It is built in Mediterranean style and surrounded by the scent of its mandarin trees and lavender bushes. Here, at the end of our tour, we take part in a wine and chocolate tasting. After this fulfilling day in the vineyards we take you back to your accommodation.
Today we travel via Gordon’s Bay along False Bay on one of the most beautiful coastal roads in South Africa to Hermanus. We drive past Rooi Els, Pringle Bay & Betty’s Bay.
Shortly before Hermanus we stop for a wine tasting at a beautiful wine estate in the Hemel & Aarde wine region. Once in Hermanus, a stroll along the coast is recommended, where from the cliffs you have a fantastic view of Walker Bay and possibly of the whales.
Hermanus is well known as one of the best places in the world for whale watching, because every year between July and November the animals, up to 16 m long and weighing 60 tonnes, come as close as 20 m to the shore. But even when it is not whale season, the drive along the coastal road to Hermanus is worth it in itself.
Back to Cape Town we travel through the fruit and wine-growing regions of Elgin and Grabouw. At the highest point of Sir Lowry’s Pass we stop for a fantastic view over the whole of False Bay. From here it is not far to Cape Town and your accommodation.
Today we drive to the Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden, where we are introduced to the Cape floral kingdom. Kirstenbosch has been described as a work of art by the heavenly gardener. The botanical garden was founded to preserve the unique biodiversity of the Cape region. This principle is still upheld today by showing only native plants.
Afterwards we drive through the Constantia wine valley. Avenues of gnarled oaks lead to magnificent manor houses in the Cape Dutch style. The wines grown here are so good that Napoleon had Constantia Muscadel delivered to his exile on St Helena. At one of the wine estates here we will take part in a wine tasting.
We continue in the afternoon to Bloubergstrand. The late afternoon can be spent in complete relaxation on the beach. Here you get the “postcard view” of Cape Town with Table Mountain. Our tour ends here. The transfer to the airport or your accommodation follows.
Or, of course, a follow-on programme such as a tour along the Garden Route combined with a safari.
Of course this programme can be individually adapted to your wishes; additional nights can also be booked.
