Cape Town Trip Overview
This tour brings the travelers to the leading tourist destination in Africa. It has a lot of attractions within a few minutes drive.
Travelers are taken on a sight seeing tour as they drive along the dramatic landscape of the coast. This drive is lined with blue flag beaches and upmarket residential properties. The charming coastline with its trendy coffee shops and restaurants.
Traveleres will visit the iconic Table Mountain – the only attraction on the New 7 wonders of nature in a city. This city is loaded with history since the arrival of the Dutch in 1652. All developments going inland throught the southern African region started here.
This tour takes travelers to most of the landmarks and the oldest buildings in South Africa. It is home to the Parliament of South Africa and the place where medical milestones where achieved. The first ever human heart transplant in December 1967 and the first ever male transplant in the world in 2014.
Additional Info
Duration: 4 to 5 hours
Starts: Cape Town, South Africa
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
This tour brings the travelers to the leading tourist destination in Africa. It has a lot of attractions within a few minutes drive.
Travelers are taken on a sight seeing tour as they drive along the dramatic landscape of the coast. This drive is lined with blue flag beaches and upmarket residential properties. The charming coastline with its trendy coffee shops and restaurants.
Traveleres will visit the iconic Table Mountain – the only attraction on the New 7 wonders of nature in a city. This city is loaded with history since the arrival of the Dutch in 1652. All developments going inland throught the southern African region started here.
This tour takes travelers to most of the landmarks and the oldest buildings in South Africa. It is home to the Parliament of South Africa and the place where medical milestones where achieved. The first ever human heart transplant in December 1967 and the first ever male transplant in the world in 2014.
Itinerary
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Stop At: Cape Town Stadium, Fritz Sonnenberg Rd, Green Point, Cape Town, 8051, South Africa
Travelers will see this world class stadium built for the World Cup in 2010. It is a 58 000 seater an imposing structure which is currently under utilized and is subject to debate because of its maintenance costs to the city of Cape Town
Stop At: Mouille Point, Cape Town, 8005, South Africa
The non-functional old lighthouse and the park where kids can play. Residential apartments and the iconic Robben Island. Mini golf park and a public gym.
Stop At: Sea Point, Sea Point, Western Cape
Residential apartments and Mandela huge glasses. Paragliders landing and the sea point swimming pool. Travelers will also see the Department of Sea Fisheries Research Station, a few hotels and restaurants.
Stop At: Clifton Beaches, Victoria Road Parking: what3words ///holders.dives.gnawing, Cape Town Central South Africa
One of the 10 Blue Flag status beaches which is divided into 4 from beach no 1 to 4.One of the most expensive residential areas in Cape Town. This is where the current most expensive property in Cape Town is found.
Stop At: Camp’s Bay Beach, Victoria Road Parking: what3words ///nibs.mazelike.swaying, Camps Bay 8005 South Africa
Travelers will visit the most popular beach in Cape Town. A beach which has always been on the blue flag status list. This is a place which is also referred to as the place of the rich and famous.
This area has amazing photo stops with the backdrop of the Twelve Apostles mountains and the iconic Table Mountain. On this beach is the trendiest restaurants and coffee shops and only two hotels.
A beach which attracts those with beach bodies and those who need a good sun tan.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Table Mountain National Park 8001 South Africa
Here the travelers will be taken to the cable car station at the foot of the mountain. The aerial view of the city of Cape Town is captivating with the surrounding mountains the ocean and the African blue sky.
From the foot of the mountain you can get a fascinating view of the long beach starting from the habour all the way to Bloubergstrand. The townships and city neighborhood are a marvel to watch on a from the foot of Table Mountain.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Lion’s Head, Signal Hill Road, Cape Town Central 8001 South Africa
This is one of the most hiked mountain in the world. It is also used as a launching pad for paragliding.
Stop At: Signal Hill, Cape Town Central 8001 South Africa
From the top of this hill travelers can see almost 360 degrees of Cape Town. It is from this place that a cannon is fired everyday at 12 noon.
This is also a famous launching pad for paragliding and a very popular site for a charming sundown. Tourist flock to this location with bottles of wine, gin and champagne as they sip the sun down.
Travelers can also be able to take amazing photos of Robben Island and Table Mountain from a different location. The waterfront, the harbor and the World Cup Cape Town Stadium is totally an amazing view from Signal Hill.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Bo-kaap, Cape Town Central South Africa
This is an area which is quiet attractive because of its brightly colored houses. This is the oldest Muslim settlement in South Africa which has 19 site declared National Heritage Sites in 2019.
There are uncountable photo stops and travelers can get a feel of the cobbled drive ways which have stood the taste of time. This is a place which attracts international students coming to learn English in Cape Town for periods up to a year.
There is also a museum which provides a lot of information about the history of the Malay community and their contribution to the development in the City of Cape Town.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Company’s Gardens, 19 Queen Victoria Street, Cape Town Central 8001 South Africa
Travelers will explore the oldest garden in South Africa. A park and heritage site located in the heart of the city. Travelers will take a walk through this garden built as a refreshment station for the trade route that rounded Africa between Europe and the east.
The Company Gardens is also home to a wide range of fauna. Travelers will see the Egyptian geese, herons, rodents, the famous squirrels and an aviary with dozens of bird species.
This Garden is also home to the South African Art Gallery. In this Art Gallery travelers can see an impressive permanent collection of South African, African, British, French, Dutch and Flemish art.
Besides all this travelers will admire the pristine flora which includes an 80 year old bamboo plantation. There is the ginkgo tree with no living relatives, the towering rubber tree and the ancient saffron to name but a few.
Travelers will also encounter several statues of individuals who shaped the history of South Africa and beyond. Next to it is the Parliament of South Africa and the Cathedral Church. There is also the Iziko South African Museum where travelers can learn the history and origins of Southern Africa.
Its a place where local and international visitors can easily spend the day as it is so peaceful and attractive.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Iziko Slave Lodge, Corner of Adderley and Wale Streets, Cape Town Central 8000 South Africa
This is a Museum which will expose the ills of slavery at the Cape to the travelers. This Museum provides a lot of information as to when slavery was introduced at the Cape and when. It also tells the origins of the slave community and who were the slave masters.
Travelers will experience life of a slave at the Cape through a video which plays over and over again same historical series of slavery. Here you will learn about the slave trade routes, the harsh conditions slaves were exposed to and the inhuman equipment used to control and torture slaves.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: District Six Museum, 25A Buitenkant Street, Cape Town Central 8001 South Africa
This is a Museum which tells the travelers how non whites were forcibly removed an area declared to be whites only by the apartheid government in 1966.
These removals took place as from 1968 and resulted in the creation of township where people were settled according to their racial groupings.
Travelers will learn the events leading to the forced removals and the effects of this inhuman act by the government of apartheid.
Duration: 30 minutes
Stop At: Castle of Good Hope, Corner of Buitenkant and Strand streets, Cape Town Central 8001 South Africa
This is a structure which was built by the Dutch between 1667 and 1672. Travelers will explore the oldest standing colonial building in South Africa and one of the most preserved structures of the Dutch East India Company worldwide.
Travelers can take a walk in this pentagon shaped Castle which was the centre of civilian and military life at the Cape. This Castle was used by the respective governments of the Dutch and the British as governments changed hands at the Cape. A canon is fired in the Castle every day at 12 noon.
