CAPE TOWN TOURS
SCHEDULED ESCORTED FULL DAY TOURS
CAPE POINT
TOUR CODE |
TICP |
DAYS |
Daily |
PAX |
One /Forty |
Departure |
Between 08h30 – 09h00 |
Vehicle |
Luxury Microbus |
Languages available |
English |
After being collected from your hotel, you will visit the exclusive suburbs of Sea Point, Clifton and Camps Bay before continuing via Llandudno to the fishing harbour of Hout Bay. If calm seas prevail, join an optional launch cruise to view the Duiker Island seals and cormorants at close quarters. Travel along the spectacular Chapman’s Peak Drive to Kommetjie, and enter the Cape Point Nature Reserve where you will be taken to the best vantage point to view what is erroneously said to be the meeting place of two mighty oceans. After a stop for lunch (own account), the tour continues to a Jackass penguin colony, the Naval hamlet of Simon’s Town and then continues via Fish Hoek and Kalk Bay to Muizenberg. In the early afternoon visit the famous Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens. Return to the city via Rhodes Drive, which bisects the plush suburbs of Bishopscourt, Claremont and Newlands. The tour terminates at your hotel again in the late afternoon.
WINELANDS TOUR
TOUR CODE |
TICW |
DAYS |
Daily |
PAX |
One /Forty |
Departure |
Between 08h30 – 09h00 |
Vehicle |
Luxury Microbus |
Languages available |
English |
After collection from your hotel, we leave the city and head along the N1 motorway to visit the Afrikaans Taal Monument on the outskirts of Paarl. Next we stop at the entrance of the Victor Verster Prison from which Nelson Mandela was released from detention. A scenic drive is taken to the Franschhoek Valley to visit the memorial to the French Huguenots, and then we call on one of the many fine wine estates in the region. A cellar tour and a tasting of “the nectar of the gods” are included. Cross the Helshoogte Pass (Hell’s Heights) and descend into historic Stellenbosch, centre of learning, rugby and the wine industry. We stop for lunch (own account) washed down with local wines. After a short-guided tour of the second oldest South African town a unique shopping experience awaits you at Oom Samie se Winkel (Uncle Sam’s Shop). The tour terminates at your hotel again in the late afternoon.
CAPE HIGHLIGHTS
TOUR CODE |
TICL |
DAYS |
Daily |
PAX |
One /Forty |
Departure |
Approx 08h30 |
Vehicle |
Luxury Microbus |
Languages available |
English |
This full day tour includes a combination of Cape Point and the winelands. Highlights include: Camps Bay; Hout Bay; Chapman's Peak (subject to the road being open); the Cape of Good Hope Reserve; Simonstown; Muizenberg; one wine tasting of South African wines at a local wine estate; the University town of Stellenbosch.
SCHEDULED ESCORTED HALF DAY TOURS
TABLE MOUNTAIN AND CITY
TOUR CODE |
TICC |
DAYS |
Daily |
PAX |
One /Forty |
Departure |
AM: 08h15 / PM: 13h00 |
Vehicle |
Luxury Microbus |
Languages available |
English |
You are collected from your hotel and taken to the lower cableway station on the slopes of Table Mountain. Weather permitting, ascend the mountain by aerial cable car (entrance fee excluded), and from a height of 1067 metres, view the city and Table Bay below, Robben Island, the Atlantic Seaboard as well as most of the spectacular Cape Peninsula. Afterwards, head down into the Malay Quarter with its’ narrow cobbled streets and colourful Mosques.
Next we continue to Government Avenue where we park at the top and stroll to the National Gallery and SA Museum, as well as view the Houses of Parliament. We then travel to the City Hall on the Grand Parade and afterwards, visit the Castle. Enter the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront – a region that abounds with shops, pubs, restaurants and entertainment. You may either leave the tour here to explore on your own, or return to your hotel in the early afternoon.
CAPE TOWNSHIP "CAPE CARE ROUTE"
TOUR CODE |
TICT |
DAYS |
Daily |
PAX |
One /Forty |
Departure |
Between 08h30 - 09h00 |
Vehicle |
Luxury Microbus |
Languages available |
English |
Highlights of this half day tour include: an insight into the past and post 1994 progress; visiting projects which are helping previously disadvantaged communities develop and build a better life for all; an insight into another side of Cape Town with focus on job creation via community based initiatives.
HALF DAY CAPE POINT
TOUR CODE |
TICP |
DAYS |
Daily |
PAX |
One /Forty |
Departure |
Between 08h30 – 09h00 |
Vehicle |
Luxury Microbus |
Languages available |
English |
After being collected from your hotel, you will visit the exclusive suburbs of Sea Point, Clifton and Camps Bay before continuing via Llandudno to the fishing harbour of Hout Bay. If calm seas prevail, join an optional launch cruise to view the Duiker Island seals and cormorants at close quarters. Travel along the spectacular Chapman’s Peak Drive to Kommetjie, and enter the Cape Point Nature Reserve where you will be taken to the best vantage point to view what is erroneously said to be the meeting place of two mighty oceans. After a stop for lunch (own account), the tour continues Past the Naval hamlet of Simon’s Town and then continues via Fish Hoek and Kalk Bay to Muizenberg. In the early afternoon visit the famous Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens. Return to the city via Rhodes Drive, which bisects the plush suburbs of Bishopscourt, Claremont and Newlands. The tour terminates at your hotel again in the late afternoon.
WINELANDS TOUR
TOUR CODE |
TICW |
DAYS |
Daily |
PAX |
One /Forty |
Departure |
Between 13h00 - 13h30 |
Vehicle |
Luxury Microbus |
Languages available |
English |
After collection from your hotel, we leave the city and head along the N1 motorway to visit the Afrikaans Taal Monument on the outskirts of Paarl. Next we stop at the entrance of the Victor Verster Prison from which Nelson Mandela was released from detention. A scenic drive is taken to the Franschhoek Valley to visit the memorial to the French Huguenots, and then we call on one of the many fine wine estates in the region. A cellar tour and a tasting of “the nectar of the gods” are included. Cross the Helshoogte Pass (Hell’s Heights) and descend into historic Stellenbosch, centre of learning, rugby and the wine industry. We stop for lunch (own account) washed down with local wines. After a short-guided tour of the second oldest South African town a unique shopping experience awaits you at Oom Samie se Winkel (Uncle Sam’s Shop). The tour terminates at your hotel again in the late afternoon.
SCHEDULED ESCORTED HALF DAY TOURS
CAPE TOWN BY NIGHT
TOUR CODE |
TICN |
DAYS |
Selected departures from Sep – May |
PAX |
One /Forty |
Departure |
Between 17h30 / 18h30 |
Vehicle |
Luxury Microbus |
Languages available |
English |
Witness the majesty of the setting sun amid a blazing sky whilst sipping a glass of sparkling wine on the beachfront at Bloubergstrand. As darkness descends we head for one of Cape Town’s popular restaurants for dinner followed by a drive up Signal Hill for a ‘night-cap’. Admire the Southern Cross twinkling above an illuminated Table Mountain in the typical African sky.
JOHANNESBURG TOURS
SCHEDULED ESCORTED FULL DAY TOURS
SUN CITY & PILANESBERG NATURE RESERVE
TOUR CODE |
TIJP |
DAYS |
Daily |
PAX |
One /Twelve |
Departure |
Between 06h30 / 07h00 |
Vehicle |
Luxury Microbus |
Languages available |
English |
Highlights of this full day include: A game drive in your vehicle with the “Big 5” in the Pilanesberg Nature Reserve which is also abundant in various plains game & birds, guided tour of the famous Sun City Complex including Valley Of The Waves and Water world (entrance fee not included) a visit to the foyer of the Palace of the Lost City. Whilst at Sun City an opportunity exists to join a unique Elephant interaction safari (not included) where you have time to touch, feed and photograph these “gentle giants”
SOWETO AND RISE TO FREEDOM TOUR
TOUR CODE |
TIJS/JF |
DAYS |
Daily – Tuesday to Sunday |
PAX |
One /Forty |
Departure |
Between 08h30 / 09h10 |
Vehicle |
Luxury Microbus |
Languages available |
English |
Highlights of this tour include: A fascinating glimps of bustling neighborhood life, two Nobel Prize winners previous residences, the Hector Peterson memorial, Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital and various community development projects. Guided tour of the Apartheid Museum where you will embark on a journey of discovery of the racial segregation experienced by millions of South Africans just over a decade ago. The Soweto uprising, the history of the ANC, solitary confinement of political prisoners and the birth of a new democratic country are detailed.
SCHEDULED ESCORTED HALF DAY TOURS
REBIRTH OF A NATION (JNB CITY & NEWTOWN)
TOUR CODE |
TIJR |
DAYS |
Daily |
PAX |
One /Forty |
Departure |
Between 13h30 / 14h10 |
Vehicle |
Luxury Microbus |
Languages available |
English |
Highlights of this tour include: The historical buildings of downtown Johannesburg passing Hillbrow and the landmark Post Office tower en route, the “Top Of Africa” at the Carlton Centre, Brixton Tower, the affluent suburb of Houghton, the Supreme Court, Museum Africa (Time permitting), the Nelson Mandela Bridge in newtown and a fully guided tour of Constitution Hill – home of South Africa’s new Constitutional court and site of Johannesburg’s Old Fort prison.
GOLD REEF HERITAGE TOUR
TOUR CODE |
TIJG |
DAYS |
Daily |
PAX |
One /Forty |
Departure |
Between 12h30 / 13h10 |
Vehicle |
Luxury Microbus |
Languages available |
English |
Highlights of this tour include: AN interactive tour that brings the Theme Park’s exciting historical and gold mining attractions together in an entertaining and informative package. It includes an introduction film, an underground mine tour, visits to three houses and the chance to see a bar of gold being poured.
NB. Children under 5 years of age not allowed underground.
PRETORIA TOUR
TOUR CODE |
TIPP |
DAYS |
Monday to Saturday |
PAX |
Two minimum |
Departure |
Between 12h30 / 13h00 |
Vehicle |
Luxury Microbus |
Languages available |
English |
Known informally as ” The Jacaranda City”. Highlights of this tour include the historical Vootrekker Monument, Church Square, the City Hall State Theatre/Opera House the Union Buildings and the presidents office.
