As well as all of the common-or-garden Cape Town day tours corresponding to city and Table Mountain tours, winelands tours and tours of the Cape Peninsula, we also attempt to cater for plenty of interests. (If in case you have a totally specific interest, discuss your needs with us and we shall source a consultant guide for you.)

 

Here is a summary of a few of our ‘off the beaten track’ Cape Town day tours. Nearly all are offered as private tours. Be warned that these are fairly expensive for two people but becomes more reasonable if there are 4 or 6 people. 

 

As they’re private tours, that you may adapt the tours to some extent to fit your own interests. Needless to say when you add something to the tour, you will have less time elsewhere, so discuss what’s possible together with your private guide at the day…

 

COUNTRY & GOURMET Cape Town day tours

 

Cheese, Wine & Chocolate full day tour

Enjoy an afternoon that celebrates the culinary delights of the Cape’s oldest wine region with a delicious, wicked mixture of cheese, wine and chocolate tasting. a mix of the favourable effects of both major ocean currents meeting off the Cape makes the climate within the area perfect for the acres of vineyards. Add to this the beautiful backdrop of the mountains, the tree-lined streets and the white gabled Cape Dutch homesteads and you’ve a
 really enjoyable scenic tour.  

 

We collect you out of your hotel and head to the Cape Winelands region. First possible visit Fairview Estate which produces quite a number cheeses from Goats milk in addition to Jersey cow milk. They’ve scooped up numerous awards at local and international competitions.  Then you definitely move directly to Tokara for some wine tasting.  Last but not least you’ll visit Bilton. Rare in distinction and rare in character, Bilton uses fine dark Belgian chocolates to enrich and accentuate the flavor in their wines. Here the wine-maker has collaborated with a Belgian chocolatier to concoct the appropriate chocolates to enrich his wines. Enjoy a calm gourmet lunch at a top Winelands restaurant (on your own account, unless you request it to be included) in addition scenic meanders during the picturesque wine regions of the Cape.

 

As it is a private tour, you may have the liberty to conform this tour by adding optional excursions comparable to horse-riding or walking in the course of the vineyards, visiting the Franschhoek Motor Museum or Spier Wine estate with its Eagle Encounters tour and humanities & crafts market. Alternatively you may benefit from the Cheetah Encounters programme.  Keep in mind that in the event you add an excessive amount of, you might have to hurry. All additional entrances or excursions are in your own account.

 

Green Winelands full day tour

This can be a full day private winelands tour with a difference. Yes we enjoy the stunning backdrop of the mountains, the tree-lined streets and the white gabled Cape Dutch homesteads however the Green Winelands tour incorporates The golf green Mountain Eco Route (GMER). The route which meanders in the course of the beautiful Elgin Valley and Bot River region is the world’s first biodiversity wine route i.e. a wine route that’s marketed at the biodiversity, wine and the eco-tourism merits of the world.

 

This tour will offer breathtaking views, majestic mountain backdrops and is filled with rich culture and history. Rolling vineyards and quaint Cape Dutch homesteads await you. You may visit award winning wine estates and taste the superior wine within the country. You could find out about the history, environment/terroir and bio-diversity as each wine estate has both a special history and a special management approach. It is a unique opportunity to get behind the ‘brand’ of the winelands and to be informed more concerning the intricacies of wine farming and its marketing.

 

This area can also be known for its soft adventure activities. So in case you just like the sound of mixing a tour of the wine estates with something a touch more active, add on various optional activities together with quad biking during the vineyards, 4×4 tours, clay pigeon shooting and mountain biking. All additional entrances or excursions are to your own account.

 

 

Olive & Vine full day tour

It is another unusual private tour combining glorious winelands country with both wine and olive tasting. It’s a bit known undeniable fact that South African olive oil has all over again walked off as winner of the foremost prestigious olive oil awards in Italy. This tour is ideal in case you have just a little more time to get to grasp the more off-the-beaten-track vineyards, villages and farms of the Cape.

After you’re collected out of your hotel at 9am, we head for Morgenster for an olive oil, olive and wine tasting. Morgenster is rated one of the most top olive oil estates on the earth, and the tour is slightly gem.  Then you definately travel just a short distance to Vergelegen, some of the oldest Cape Dutch homesteads in South Africa, for a walk of their beautiful gardens, a trip to the homestead and a taste in their award winning wines. An optional extra is to pre-book for an engaging tour in their spectacular gravity fed cellar.

 

All that is washed down with a gourmet lunch at one of several top Winelands restaurants (on your own account, unless you request it to be included). After lunch, the wine and olive-tasting is complemented by a quick historical tour of Stellenbosch – the second one oldest town in South Africa. One could see why Simon Van Der Stel decided to construct a village in such an idyllic spot.  The Cape Dutch architecture, the oak-lined streets and the numerous alfresco cafes give Stellenbosch a charm that won’t be quickly forgotten.  You’ve the chance to explore a few of the little shops and do a little shopping.

 

As this can be a private tour, you’ve the liberty to evolve this tour by adding optional excursions which include visiting the Spier Wine estate with its Eagle Encounters tour and humanities & crafts market, or Cheetah Encounters programme.  Keep in mind that in the event you add an excessive amount of, you have got to hurry. All additional entrances or excursions are on your own account.

 

 

Private Champagne Crazy full day tour

That’s another unusual private tour – mellow and sybaritic combining glorious scenic countryside with the champagne and characters of the Winelands.  Generally this tour is barely available on Saturdays. When you are collected out of your hotel at 9am, we travel to 1 of the unique estates granted to the French Huguenots for a memorable champagne cellar tour given by the eccentric globe-trotting owner and winemaker, Achim von Arnim, if he’s available, at Haute Cabriere wine estate. Achim’s passion for his region, his farm and his champagne are infectious. You’ll not escape without experiencing the full fountain of house ‘bubblies’.

 

Every Saturday Achim demands volunteers to help him with sabrage when the champagne bottles are elaborately opened with a sabre! After the tour you enjoy a leisurely gourmet lunch (on your own account) at one of the most spectacular award-winning winelands restaurants. After lunch, we meander to 1 or two other wine tastings at nearby wine estates looking on your preferences in wine.  We return to Cape Town within the late afternoon.

 

As this can be a private tour, you’ve the liberty to evolve this tour inside the afternoon by adding optional excursions equivalent to horse-riding or cycling in the course of the vineyards or visiting the Franschhoek Motor Museum. At the long ago you could visit Spier Wine estate with its Eagle Encounters tour and humanities & crafts market.  Do not forget that in the event you add an excessive amount of, you’ve got to hurry, and you’ll probably must miss the second one wine estate. All additional entrances or excursions are to your own account.

 

 
SPECIAL INTEREST Cape Town day tours

 

Sunday Gospel Half Day tour

This is an unusual religious tour which supplies you the original opportunity to wait a church service within the Townships.  When we collect you out of your hotel, we head to a Church service in either Langa or Khayelitsha.  You may witness the real role these churches play inside the community’s lives and listen to the stunning and moving sounds of gospel choirs.

 

If you would like you’re welcome to bring any supplies which you like to donate. Particularly appreciated are school supplies for youngsters (stationery, pens etc) or old clothes/blankets. You could hand these over to the church which you visit who will distribute them. However please note that this isn’t expected of you and is entirely voluntary.

 

 
Private Surfing & Wine-tasting full day tour

Surfing and wine tasting may sound like an unusual combination but it is one in every of our foremost tours for the adventurous and young at heart.  When you are collected out of your hotel, we head straight to Muizenberg, one in every of Cape Town’s many beautiful beaches.

 

Your day starts on the beach with a surfing lesson.  Your surf lesson could be conducted at a beach break that has ideal waves for beginners in addition to intermediate surfers.  The experienced instructors have helped plenty of people to locate their surfing feet. After a couple of hours hopefully learning the way to master the waves, you will need some lunch at one of the vital beachside deli’s (in your own account). After lunch, we’ll head to the lovely Constantia Valley Wine route where one could enjoy wine tasting on the world renowned wineries comparable to Klein Constantia and Steenberg.

 

 

Table Mountain Walk – Half to Full Day

 

We transfer our intrepid guests to the start line of our walk up Table Mountain.   

 

The Platteklip Gorge Trail is a personal guided walk up Cape Town’s most famed landmark, Table Mountain.  It is a steep walk but involves no rock scrambling (You might want to have a pretty good fitness level because it is a 2½ hour hike up steep paths and along uneven steps.  We ascend the mountain stopping en path to admire the view, forests, flowers, rock formations, rivers and lakes. The walk may be led by a guide who has intimate knowledge of the mountain: its paths, its famous fynbos vegetation and its fauna.On the summit, you have got the choice of walking directly to Maclear’s Beacon, at 1 086 m, the very best point on Table Mountain.  This will take another 1 hour to 1½ hours in total. From there, one can retrace your footsteps to the end cable car station where you may enjoy absolutely spectacular views towards Robben Island, over Camps Bay and the beach and along the Twelve Apostles mountain range, towards Hout Bay.  The path ends by you descending by cable car (The only way cable car ticket is included) as is return transfers out of your hotel.

 

Other walking trails equivalent to Skeleton Gorge to Maclears Beacon or Constania Nek to the higher Cable Car also are possible.

 

Private Shopping and Sightseeing Tour – Half or Full Day

Cape Town is a shopping Mecca with something to fit everybody’s taste and grace.  Whether you’ll want to shop for clothing, fabric, furniture, diamonds, spices, African art or crafts,Cape Town will attract all lovers of shopping. Our guide combines some serious shopping with some gentler sight-seeing round the city today. She’s extremely acquainted with where to locate probably the most interesting African artifacts, fabrics and furnishings at good prices. She will also introduce you to a few of our innovative South African fashion designers. (We now have included a small amount for entrances if you want to take a break from shopping.) Half or Full Day Tours are possible.