Cape Town, Cape Winelands, Table Mountain

Our Southern Africa travel holiday options deals also include tours in the Western Cape including Cape Town and the prices include your flight, airfare and your flights to South Africa. The West coast and the beautiful Gardenroute where you can have a Malaria free African Safari Tour. Touring in South Africa is a memorable experience as it takes you from the famous Kruger National Park where you can see the Big 5, to the Drakensberg, the Wild Coast, Knysna, The Garden Route, whale watching in Hermanus and wine tasting in the Stellenbosch Winelands! We will arrange a special trip for you where your accommodation is booked in the finest hotels in South Africa! For your Self Catering accommodation we will also arrange your car hire and your hotel or holiday homes. Table Mountain in Cape Town is one of the most unforgettable views that you’ll experience on an African tour or when you visit the V&A waterfront you will have a world class shopping experience. Whether you enjoy playing Golf or just lazing under an African Blue Sky. Wine Tasting in the winelands also for part of this vacation tour. The Cape Town tours also include trips to Robben Island where Nelson Mandela was incarcerated for 28 years. On an African Safari or a Cape Holiday you will have the travel South Africa experience of a lifetime. We offer a tour package that will make your tour in Africa really memorable! Tours in Cape Town will show you the beautiful Cape Point and the cape west coast where you can feast on Cape Rock Lobster tours are fully guided and there are also self catering accommodation in Heroldsbay in the Garden Route (or Gardenroute) available. On an African Safari or a Cape Holiday you will have the travel South Africa experience of a lifetime. We offer a tour package that will make your tour in Africa really memorable! Package Tours are done out of Cape Town (Western Cape, Winelands, Gardenroute and Cape West Coast) or Johannesburg (Gauteng, Kruger Park, Pilanesberg and Sun City).

CAPE TOWN & THE CAPE WINELANDS

Cape Town is not only the most popular international tourist destination in South Africa, it is Africa's main tourist destination even overtaking Cairo. Due to its good climate, natural setting, and relatively well-developed infrastructure, Cape Town is a wonderful holiday destination. The city has several well-known natural features that attract tourists, most notably Table Mountain, which forms a large part of the Table Mountain National Park and is the back end of the City Bowl. Reaching the top of the mountain can be achieved either by hiking up, or by taking the Table Mountain Cableway. Cape Point is recognised as the dramatic headland at the end of the Cape Peninsula. Many tourists also drive along Chapman's Peak Drive, a narrow road that links Noordhoek with Hout Bay, for the views of the Atlantic Ocean and nearby mountains. It is possible to either drive or hike up Signal Hill for closer views of the City Bowl and Table Mountain.

Many tourists also visit Cape Town's beaches, which are popular with local residents. Due to the city's unique geography, it is possible to visit several different beaches in the same day, each with a different setting and atmosphere. Beaches located on the Atlantic Coast tend to have very cold water from the Benguela current which originates from the Southern Ocean. The water at False Bay beaches is often warmer by up to 10 °C (18 °F). Both coasts are equally popular, although the beaches in affluent Clifton and elsewhere on the Atlantic Coast are better developed with restaurants and cafés, with a particularly vibrant strip of restaurants and bars accessible to the beach at Camps Bay. Boulders Beach near Simon's Town is known for its colony of African penguins. Surfing is popular and the city hosts the Red Bull Big Wave Africa surfing competition every year.

The city has several notable cultural attractions. The Victoria & Alfred Waterfront, built on top of part of the docks of the Port of Cape Town, is one of the city's most popular shopping venues, with several hundred shops and the Two Oceans Aquarium. Part of the charm of the V&A, as it is locally known, is that the Port continues to operate and visitors can watch ships enter and leave. The V&A also hosts the Nelson Mandela Gateway, through which ferries depart for Robben Island. It is possible to take a ferry from the V&A to Hout Bay, Simon's Town and the Cape Fur Seal colonies on Seal and Duiker Islands. Several companies offer tours of the Cape Flats, a mostly Coloured township, and Khayelitsha, a mostly black township. An option is to sleep overnight in Cape Town's townships. There are several B&Bs where you can spend a safe and real African night.

Cape Town is noted for its architectural heritage, with the highest density of Cape Dutch style buildings in the world. Cape Dutch style, which combines the architectural traditions of the Netherlands, Germany and France, is most visible in Constantia, the old government buildings in the Central Business District, and along Long Street. The annual Cape Town Minstrel Carnival, also known by its Afrikaans name of Kaapse Klopse, is a large minstrel festival held annually on January 2 or "Tweede Nuwe Jaar" (Afrikaans: Second New Year). Competing teams of minstrels parade in brightly coloured costumes, either carrying colourful umbrellas or playing an array of musical instruments. The Artscape Theatre Centre is the main performing arts venue in Cape Town.

Cape Town's transport system links it to the rest of South Africa; it serves as the gateway to other destinations within the province. The Cape Winelands and in particular the towns of Stellenbosch, Paarl and Franschhoek are popular day trips from the city for sightseeing and wine tasting. Whale watching is popular amongst tourists: Southern Right Whales and Humpback Whales are seen off the coast during the breeding season (August to November) and Bryde's Whales and Killer Whale can be seen any time of the year. The nearby town of Hermanus is known for its Whale Festival, but whales can also be seen in False Bay. Heaviside's dolphins are endemic to the area and can be seen from the coast north of Cape Town; Dusky dolphins live along the same coast and can occasionally be seen from the ferry to Robben Island.

Approximately 1.5 million tourists visited in Cape Town during 2004, bringing in a total of R10 billion in revenue.The forecasts for 2006 anticipate 1.6 million tourists spending a total of R12 billion. The most popular areas for visitors to stay include Camps Bay, Sea Point, the V&A Waterfront, the City Bowl, Hout Bay, Constantia, Rondebosch, Newlands, Somerset West, Hermanus and Stellenbosch, as well.