On arrival at Cape Town International Airport, you will collect your luggage and proceed through customs. You will be met by your Southern Africa 360 representative and privately transfer you to your Hotel located in the heart of the City.
After check in you are free to explore the surrounding area and visit any of the Local restaurants located in Bree Street or enjoy a leisurely dinner at the hotel restaurant - The Status Room which offers a fine dining experience on both the terrace overlooking the streets of the city of inside where the look and feel are New York Deco.
After a late breakfast you will take hop on you bike and take a leisurely drive through Cape Town City where you will pass a number of the Cape's top attractions, from Table Mountain to the imposing Castle of Good Hope to the colourful cottages of the Bo Kaap, the bustling Green Market Square, the South African Museum, and the beautiful Company Gardens. We recommend a stop at a Local City Restaurant for lunch.
HIGHLIGHTS:
• South African Museum & the Company Gardens
• Parliament buildings
• City Hall & Castle of good Hope (optional)
• Malay Quarter/ Bo-Kaap
• Green Market Square
• Signal Hill
• Camps Bay & Clifton
Should the cableway up Table Mountain not be operating you will be taken to Table View for a “postcard view” of Table Mountain.
Later the afternoon you are at leisure, we can recommend spending some time at the V&A Waterfront which has a wide variety of shops, entertainment and restaurants on offer.
After an earlier start and breakfast you will take hop on you bike and take a leisurely drive through of the ruggedly beautiful Cape Peninsula. See all the top sights along South Africa’s Cape Peninsula on this full-day tour from Cape Town. Explore Hout Bay and take an optional boat trip to Duiker Island (own expense). Spend time at leisure in Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve and take a return Funicular trip to the top of Cape Point and visit Simon’s Town on the peninsula’s east coast - home to a colony of African penguins! On the drive back you may have time to stop for a walk at Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens. A picnic lunch can be enjoyed at Cape Point Vineyards or the renowned restaurant located inside Cape Point Nature Reserve.
HIGHLIGHTS
• Clifton & Camps Bay
• Twelve Apostles
• Llandudno
• Hout Bay (optional boat trip to Seal Island)
• Chapmans Peak Drive (if open)
• Noordhoek
• Ostrich viewing (drive by)
• Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve
• Cape Point
• Cape of Good Hope
• Boulders Beach Penguin Colony (optional)
• Simons Town
• Muizenberg
• Constantia
• Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens
This evening you are at leisure, we can recommend spending some time at the V&A Waterfront which has a wide variety of shops, entertainment and restaurants on offer.
After an earlier start and breakfast you will take hop on you bike and take a leisurely drive through the Cape Winelands
We start the morning off at the Stellenbosch winelands, only 20 minutes out of Cape Town, which offers a majestic scenery that is entirely different to the Cape Peninsula. Stellenbosch is a small but very lively town with a famous university and numerous activities such as wine cellar tours and tastings, museums, galleries and strawberry picking.
We then head to Franschhoek - a wine-lover's dream destination - also known as "the French corner", an old Huguenot village. With its numerous streets and estates with French names, the town will make you feel completely bewildered, feeling like you were in France in another era. You will be completely enchanted by the town's charm and its peaceful environment.
Drakenstein, also known as Victor Verster Prison, is located between Franschhoek and Paarl. The prison is famous for being the one where Nelson Mandela spent the last fourteen months of his imprisonment for campaigning against Apartheid, afterwards leaving a free man in February 1990! Here you will get to see a recently unveiled, larger than life-size statue of Nelson Mandela raising his fist, not in anger, but as a well-known gesture of defiance, usually accompanied by the freedom slogan - 'amandla awethu' in isiZulu or 'power to the people' in English.
We end off the tour at the town of Paarl, offering you a great perspective into Afrikaans culture and tradition. The district is specially well-known for its Pearl Mountain or "Paarl Rock". The huge granite rock is formed by three rounded outcrops that make up Paarl Mountain and has been compared in majesty to Uluru (formerly known as Ayers Rock) in Australia.
This evening you are at leisure, we can recommend spending some time at the V&A Waterfront which has a wide variety of shops, entertainment and restaurants on offer.
This being your last morning in Cape Town, you will start with a leisurely breakfast before your transfer to Cape Town International Airport for your departure flight.
