This tour combines beautiful sites and showing off both the Cape Floral Kingdom as well as the historical sites where the first explores landed and the arrival of the various peoples that makes Cape Town such a diverse city with all it's culture, people and religions. Plus you get to see the penguins and if you are lucky some of the wild life the Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve. The route is one of the most scenic in the world along the Atltantic Seaboard via Chapmans peak.
Inclusions & Exclusions
✔ Boulders Beach Penguin Colony
✔ Cape Point Entrance Fee
✔ Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens Entrance Fee
✖ Funicular at Cape Point
✖ Optional Ferry at Hout Bay
✖ Lunch
Pickup Locations
1. Mount Nelson, A Belmond Hotel, Cape Town
2. The PortsWood
3. Southern Sun The Cullinan
4. Southern Sun Waterfront Cape Town
5. Southern Sun Cape Sun
6. Victoria & Alfred Hotel
7. One&Only Cape Town
8. Hyatt Regency Cape Town
9. The Table Bay
10. Pepperclub Hotel
11. Cape Grace - A Fairmont Managed Hotel
Additional Info: All Pickups will be from the City Center and Waterfront Hotels. If outside of the city an additional charge may be levied.
Itinerary
1
Cape Point Nature Reserve
This is one of the most Scenic Routes in Cape Town and a must see.
Our tour start in the City and makes it's way around the Atlantic Sea Board Towards Hout Bay a beautiful Coastal Town where you have the option of hopping on to a ferry to sea the the seals. We then take you to one of the most beautiful drives in the world namely Chapmans Peak Drive. Driving past long beach with it's white sandy beaches always leaves everyone in awe with the shear beauty of ocean and and nature. We make our way to Cape Point and Cape of Good Hope where the guide will share history going as far back as the 14th century when the first known sea explorers rounded the Cape of Good Hope. In the Afternoon we visit Kirstnebosch Botanical Gardens rumored to be one of the best in the world.
Duration: 1.5 hours
2
Hout Bay
Beautiful village setting with a nice fishing harbor, Visiting seal island is optional via ferry.
Duration: 40 minutes
3
Chapman's Peak Drive
Built in 1913 and completed in 1922 connecting the Southern Suburbs to the City of Cape Town this is regarded as one of the most scenic drives in the world
Duration: 10 minutes
4
Boulders Beach Penguin Colony
The last of the African Penguins only found in the Southern African Countries and endangered species. One of two colonies in the Western Cape.
Duration: 35 minutes
5
Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden
Regarded as one of the best in the world with an Ethos of "show casing the indigenous plants of South Africa" Also winner of Gold of the Chelsea Flower show for the umpteenth year.
Duration: 60 minutes
Additional info
• Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
• Service animals allowed
• Suitable for all physical fitness levels
