Table Mountain · Winelands · Cape Peninsula

Cape Town

A mountain in the middle of a city, and an ocean on both sides.

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Experiences
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World Heritage sites
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Oceans
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Private guiding

The region

Cable car to the top of a flat-topped mountain, penguins on a suburban beach, wine estates three centuries old, and the island where the country's future was argued out in a limestone quarry.

Cape Town sits on a peninsula between two oceans with a mountain range running down the middle of it, and almost everything worth doing is within an hour of the hotel. Table Mountain has a rotating cable car to the summit. The peninsula road runs to the Cape of Good Hope past Chapman's Peak, a penguin colony and an ostrich farm. Inland, Stellenbosch, Franschhoek and Constantia have been making wine since the 1680s. And across the bay lies Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela spent eighteen of his twenty-seven years, now guided by men who were imprisoned there themselves.

Experiences

12 ways to spend a day here.

Each one runs privately, with pricing quoted to your group and season.

Arrival

Airport Pickup

Met at the gate, with Table Mountain in the windscreen twenty minutes later.

A chauffeur meets you inside Cape Town International, handles the bags, and drives you in twenty minutes to the hotel. Flights are tracked, so late landings and early arrivals are both covered.

20 – 40 minutes
1 – 7 guests
Cape Town International

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Dining

Welcome Lunch or Dinner

Cape produce, Cape wine, and a chef who cooks both properly.

Your first meal in the city, cooked by our chef: line-caught fish, Karoo lamb, Cape Malay spicing, and a wine list drawn from estates you will visit later in the week.

2 – 3 hours
2 – 40 guests
At the hotel

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Table Mountain Cableway

A rotating cable car, and the whole peninsula laid out at your feet.

The cable car turns through 360 degrees as it climbs, so everybody gets the full view on the way up. At the top there are walking paths along the plateau, a restaurant, and the city, the bay and Robben Island spread out below.

Half day, 4 hours
2 – 12 guests
Hotel pickup, weather-dependent

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The Cape Town Wheel

Four turns above the Waterfront, best after dark.

A giant observation wheel at the V&A Waterfront with enclosed, climate-controlled cabins. Four full rotations over the harbour, the city bowl and Table Mountain, and it is worth doing at night when the whole bowl is lit.

1 hour, plus Waterfront time
1 – 8 guests per cabin
V&A Waterfront

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Adventure

Parachute above Camps Bay

A tandem jump with the Twelve Apostles on one side and the Atlantic on the other.

A tandem skydive over the Cape peninsula. You are strapped to a licensed instructor, jump from around 9,000 feet, freefall for about thirty seconds, then fly under canopy with Camps Bay, Lion's Head and the whole coastline below.

Half day, 4 hours
1 – 6 guests
Hotel pickup, weather-dependent

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Adventure

Helicopter Ride

Two oceans, one mountain, and a doorless option if you are brave.

A scenic flight from the Waterfront helipad over the Atlantic seaboard, Camps Bay, Hout Bay and the back of Table Mountain. Longer routes carry on to Cape Point and the Cape of Good Hope.

20 – 60 minutes airborne
1 – 5 guests
V&A Waterfront helipad

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Wine

Wine Tasting in the Winelands

Three centuries of Cape Dutch estates, and a tram that runs between them.

A day in Franschhoek, Stellenbosch or Constantia, tasting at estates that have been making wine since the 1680s. The Franschhoek wine tram runs an open-top loop between the cellars, so nobody has to think about driving.

Full day, 8 hours
2 – 12 guests
Hotel pickup 09:00

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Scenic

Cape Peninsula, Ostrich Farm & Penguins

The most south-western point of Africa, with penguins on the way.

The full peninsula day: Chapman's Peak Drive, an ostrich farm, the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Point, and the African penguin colony at Boulders Beach, where the birds nest between the boulders and swim with the bathers.

Full day, 9 hours
2 – 12 guests
Hotel pickup 08:30

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Heritage

Robben Island

The ferry, the quarry, and cell number five.

A ferry from the V&A Waterfront to the island where Nelson Mandela spent eighteen years. The prison section is guided by former political prisoners, and the island tour covers the lime quarry, the leper graveyard and the village.

Half day, 4 hours
2 – 20 guests
Nelson Mandela Gateway, V&A Waterfront

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Adventure

Quad Biking, Long March to Freedom & Klein Constantia

Dunes in the morning, a hundred bronze heroes, and a glass of Vin de Constance.

Three things in one day that should not work together and do. Quad bikes across the Atlantis dunes, the Long March to Freedom sculpture park, and a tasting at Klein Constantia, home of the wine Napoleon asked for on his deathbed.

Full day, 8 hours
2 – 10 guests
Hotel pickup 08:30

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Dining

Bus Cuisine Lunch or Dinner

A moving dining room, with the city going past the window.

A set menu served on board a touring coach as it loops the city bowl, the Atlantic seaboard and the Waterfront. Courses arrive as the view changes, and the guide narrates between them.

3 hours
10 – 40 guests
Hotel pickup

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Dining

Dusk Dinner Experience

The table we keep for the last night.

Dinner at one of the city's most sought-after restaurants, booked at the hour when the light goes. We hold the tables that are otherwise gone months in advance, and the sommelier builds the pairing around your menu.

3 – 4 hours
2 – 12 guests
Hotel pickup at golden hour

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Gallery

Cape Town, photographed.

Taken on our own departures. Click any frame to open it.

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Plan your Cape Town days. Contact the desk.

Every journey is quoted to the group, the season and the number of days. Tell us what you have in mind and our travel desk will come back the same day with a full proposal.

WhatsApp the desk Email an enquiry +27 63 943 8491

Staying with us? Reserve a suite and we bundle the tours into one itinerary.