South Africa’s Stunning South: Cape Town, Wine Country, and the Garden Route

Overview

After breakfast at your hotel, you’ll meet your local expert guide for a full-day excursion to the utterly captivating Cape Peninsula. Today’s tour will touch on the area’s most iconic sites, starting with a drive along the Atlantic Coast toward Hout Bay. En route, you’ll pass the cosmopolitan suburbs of Green Point, Sea Point, Clifton, and Camps Bay, winding past gleaming waves and vast mountains. When you arrive at the charming fishing village of Hout Bay, you’ll embark on a guided boat trip with a naturalist to Seal Island, where you’ll have the opportunity to view and befriend Cape fur seals. From there, the road trip will continue via Chapman’s Peak until you stop again at Cape Point Nature Reserve. Here, you’ll ride the Flying Dutchman Funicular to a quintessential coastal lighthouse. After a short break for lunch, the tour will bring you to Simon’s Town. This naval site has garnered a reputation, not only for housing the South African Navy’s largest base, but also, crucially, for its resident colony of penguins; Boulder’s Beach houses a breeding colony of more than 2,000 endangered African Penguins, which you’ll have the chance to see for yourself. After this once-in-a-lifetime beach and wildlife stop, the tour will conclude in the late afternoon. You’ll be dropped off at your hotel and have free time to spend however you'd like. (Breakfast)

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