Highlights:
Depart the city along the Atlantic seaboard to the fishing village of Hout Bay, where, as an optional extra, you board a boat to view the Cape fur seal colony on Duiker Island (weather dependent). Alternatively explore the working harbour and visit the fish markets and local shops.
Return to dry land and navigate the 114 curves of 600m high Chapman’s Peak Drive, one of the world’s most spectacular passes, past the Cape’s longest beach at Noordhoek and the coastal hamlets of Kommetjie and Scarborough. Look out for Southern right whales just offshore from June to November!
Enter the Cape of Good Hope section of the Table Mountain National Park with its unique Cape fynbos vegetation and home to birds like African black oystercatchers and Cape sugarbirds as well as to very special fauna including Cape mountain zebra, bontebok (both endemic) and the charismatic Cape baboon.
Climb (or ride the world’s first environmentally friendly funicular) to the famous Cape Point Lighthouse to capture the magical vistas of False Bay, and south-westernmost point of Africa: breathtaking Cape Point.
Head along the False Bay coast to Boulders Beach for a close-up encounter with a colony of African penguins, and then head home through the naval village of Simonstown and over Boyes Drive. The last stop of the day is Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens, for a walk through one of the largest collections of indigenous plants in the world.
Note:
Subject to a minimum of 2 guests. We reserve the right to subcontract scheduled tours.