Table Mountain, Wine & Countryside

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When we think of the Western Cape of South Africa, we think of Table Mountain in Cape Town, the vineyards of the Cape Winelands and the tranquil countryside. Join us on this tour to experience the magic of the Western Cape.

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Day 1 Arrival in Cape Town

Welcome to Cape Town! Upon arrival at Cape Town International Airport, you will be met by an iKapa Tours & Travel Representative. You will immediately go on a Cape Town City tour with a visit to Table Mountain by cable car. Since the first person laid eyes on Table Mountain, it has exerted its powerful and charismatic pull, enchanting and drawing any and all who fall under its spell.

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 are taken to your boutique hotel situated in Bantry Bay where you will spend the following two nights.

Overnight: Cape Cadogan Bed & Breakfast

Day 2 Cape Peninsula

Today, tour the spectacular Cape Peninsula. Begin in the exclusive suburbs of Seapoint, Clifton and Camps Bay; continue via Llandudno to the fishing harbor of Hout Bay. If calm seas prevail, join a launch cruise to view the Duiker Island seals and cormorants at close quarters. Travel along spectacular Chapman’s Peak and enter the Cape Point Nature Reserve.

Seafood Lunch at Polana Restaurant. The Polana Restaurant is situated in Kalk Bay Harbour, and is owned by the same team who operate the successful Harbour House Restaurant.

Afternoon drive to a Jackass penguin colony, the Naval hamlet of Simonstown and then via Fishhoek and Kalk Bay to the seaside city of Muizenberg. In Muizenberg, visit the Historical Mile which includes the Natale Labia (used by the South African National Gallery as an exhibition venue), Het Posthuys (Old Post Office - oldest European house in South Africa) and the Rhodes Cottage (This national monument and museum houses memorabilia, photographs and original furniture of Cecil John Rhodes).

Visit the colorful Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens at the base of Skeleton Gorge; time to stroll through these magnificent gardens. Return to the hotel via the plush suburbs of Bishops Court, Claremont and Newlands.

Overnight: Cape Cadogan Lunch, Bed & Breakfast

Day 3 Cape Town to Wellington via Paarl

After breakfast and check out this morning, travel along the N1 highway to Paarl. Visit the Taal Monument - on Paarl rock, is one of the most famous Afrikaans monuments erected in South Africa and dedicated to the Afrikaans language. It was designed by the architect Jan van Wijk and inaugurated in 1975. The monument is shaped in several tall obelisks style columns erected on the granite of Paarl Rock. The monument, atop Paarl rock, is visible from a great distance as one approaches Paarl.

Thereafter, visit Fairview Wines – The home of Fairview wines is a 300ha farm on the south-west-facing slopes of Paarl Mountain, a granite rock outcrop in the heart of the Paarl wine district, virticulturally among the most historic and influential areas of the Cape winelands. Standing among the lavender beds in the terraced front garden of the winery, you’ll look out across rolling fields and see distant flat-topped Table Mountain. Enjoy their wine as well as a cheese tasting at Fairview.

Fairview’s next-door neighbour is the Seidelberg Wine Estate. Award-winning wines, hearty lunch in the relaxed restaurant, spectacular views and live Venetian-style glass blowing. Seidelberg Estate has been preparing a welcome for you for over 300 years, so take a step back in time - come and pamper your senses with one of the Winelands` most memorable experiences.

Continue to Wellington where you will spend the next two nights.

Overnight: Bartholomeus Klip Full Board

Day 4 Wellington

Enjoy the activities that the lodge has to offer.

Explore the working farm and nature reserve on foot or by mountain bike, and search for the rare geometric tortoise, or visit the buffalo and quagga breeding projects. Extensive gardens and a saltwater pool invite peaceful relaxation. Game drives through a fynbos nature reserve, first-class cooking. Afternoon game drives at Bartholomeus Klip end with sundowners in the veld.

The animals are easy to spot in the low-growing fynbos, especially since there are more than 500 head of game.

At Bartholomeus Klip, conservation co-exists with farming. Agriculture in the Cape has destroyed most of the original renosterveld (a type of fynbos), but the large area conserved here forms the last remaining viable habitat of the geometric tortoise, one of the world's most endangered reptiles.

Overnight: Bartholomeus Klip Full Board

Day 5 Wellington to Ashton via Worcester & Robertson

Depart from Bartholomeus Klip and travel along the route, which forms part of the longest wine route in the world. Slanghoek Wine Cellar is situated in the picturesque Slanghoek Valley. As a result of the unique geographic position, microclimate and varied soils, wines cultivated in the valley boats a unique character. The care, expertise and dedication of the wine farmer, combined with the most modern cellar equipment and refined art of winemaking by the cellar masters and their team, has resulted in the production of wines of excellence year after year. Enjoy a wine tasting at this wine estate.

Travel towards Robertson and visit the Graham Beck Wine Estate - the cellar and farm are situated in the Breederiver Valley bordering the semi-arid Little Karoo region. The warm climate in combination with mineral and fossil rich soils gives this area a distinct character, which spills into its quality wines and Cap Classique bubblies. The region’s limestone rich soils are especially suited to the planting of Chardonnay.

Lunch is included en route to Schoone Oordt, situated between Ashton and Swellendam.

Overnight: Schoone Oordt Lunch, Dinner, Bed & Breakfast

Day 6 Swellendam

Swellendam is the largest youngberry growing area in the world. Visit Wildebraam Liqueurs. Wildebraam is a youngberry farm situated in the Hermitage Valley, Swellendam. In addition to farming berries, a private cellar produces unique South African liqueurs viz. youngberry, honey, fennel, and rooibos. Liqueurs can be sampled in the tasting room.

Visit the decidedly anomalous Sulina Faerie Sanctuary. It is the realisation of one Swellendam resident's unabashed flight of faerie fantasy. The magical continent of Sulina is entered through two solid wooden gates, which enclose an overgrown garden inhabited by hundreds of gnomes, faeries, wizards, pet dragons and mystical castles.

A footpath leads around the tiny house (whose interior is wall-to-wall with faerie paraphernalia), taking the traveller on a quietly enchanting excursion through a forest of gurgling streams, pixie villages, mushroom circles and whimsical elves peering out from the undergrowth.

Lunch is enjoyed in Swellendam.

In the afternoon, visit the Drostdy Museum Complex. The Drostdy Museum Complex includes the Ambagswerf, Mayville House, an old jail, a water mill, a 19th century rose garden and displays of 18th century furniture.

The Drostdy in Swellendam was built in 1747 as the official residence and seat of the magistrate. This charming building has great architectural value, and is a leading historical museum. It is renowned for its fine collection of late 18th and early 19th century Cape furniture.

The Drostdy itself reflects the official history of the district from a Dutch East India Company outpost to a prosperous town under British Colonial rule.

Return to your guesthouse in the late afternoon.

Overnight: Schoone Oordt Lunch, Bed & Breakfast

Day 7 Ashton to Grootbos Nature Reserve via Bredasdorp and L’Agulhas

After a leisurely breakfast check out from Mardouw Country House and travel via Bredasdrop towards Cape Agulhas. The Southernmost Tip of Africa. The old lighthouse is now a museum and National Monument. Portuguese seafarers found this a strange place as 500 years ago the compass showed no variation between true and magnetic north. They named Africa's southern-most tip, "Needle Cape". An alternative opinion says that the name stems from the ragged and pointed reefs offshore. Nowadays there is a 24º variation west, as the magnetic poles are constantly moving. Cape Agulhas is an often windy and desolate place that really does feel like the end of the earth.

Continue towards Grootbos Nature Reserve.

Overnight: Grootbos Nature Reserve Full Board

Day 8 Grootbos Nature Reserve

Experience nature like never before. Let the expert guides introduce you to the wonders of the fynbos. Discover the fascinating relationship between the insects, birds, mammals and flowering plants of this diverse ecosystem. Smell the aromatic wild herbs, watch exquisite birds and be awed by the scenery that surrounds you.

Take a meandering path through an ancient Milkwood forest, where thousand-year-old trees send exploratory branches in search of sunlight, or visit one of the remnant Afromontane forests on the reserve. Young and old can explore this natural wonderland on foot or by four-wheel drive vehicle, or take a horse ride to enjoy views from the elevation of a comfortable saddle on a well-schooled horse or pony.

Overnight: Grootbos Nature Reserve Full Board

Day 9 Grootbos Nature Reserve to Stellenbosch via Somerset West

In the morning after you have enjoyed breakfast, we depart from the nature reserve to Stellenbosch. En route to Stellenbosch, visit Morgenster Wine Estate for a wine and olive tasting. It is a thriving farm, producing Bordeaux-style red wine and award-winning Extra Virgin Olive Oil and olive products. Continue to Stellenbosch, where we visit the Spier Estate for a wine tasting, lunch at Moyo Restaurant and a visit to the Cheetah Outreach Project and Eagle Encounters, a raptor rehabilitation programme.

Check in at your hotel in the late afternoon.

Overnight: Asara Lunch, Bed & Breakfast

Day 10 Franschhoek Winelands

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 – Haute Cabriere. Home of Pierre Jourdan and Haute Cabrière wines, the beautiful Cabrière Estate, situated on the banks of the Franschhoek river, was granted to the French Huguenot refugee farmer Pierre Jourdan on the 22 December 1694. Lunch is enjoyed at the estate. High up on the Franschhoek pass overlooking one of the most beautiful valleys in the world, is Haute Cabriére Cellar Restaurant. Built into the flank of one of the surrounding mountains, the restaurant has a magnificent view of this beautiful valley, where French Huguenot refugees settled in 1688.

In the afternoon, visit the Franschhoek Motor Museum. It offers visitors a special opportunity to look back at more than 100 years of motoring history with its unique and exciting collection of vehicles, motorcycles, bicycles and memorabilia in the magnificent setting of L’Ormarins.

Return to your hotel.

A farewell dinner is enjoyed at your hotel

Overnight: Asara Lunch, Dinner, Bed & Breakfast

Day 11 A fond farewell…

Today we wish you a fond farewell, as you are collected from your hotel and transferred to the airport for your onward flight…

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