Cape Town & Beyond: Explore Cape Town & the Garden Route - 6 Days

DAY 1:  Pick-up at 08h00 from Cape Town Hotels, V&A Waterfront or CT Airport. Travel through some of the wine-producing valleys of the Winelands graced with great scenic beauty, vineyards and orchards. We leave Cape Town early and travel to the Cape's famed wine-lands region. Stellenbosch, center of the considerable wine industry, is one of the prettiest of all small towns in South Africa, while the wines, wild flowers and fruits of the valley are amongst the finest in the world. We visit some of the area's most elegant wine estates, tasting their superb wines and enjoying leisurely strolls around their magnificent grounds and stately homes. We overnight in the Cape Winelands.

Enjoy a guided tour of a wine cellar and taste the estates exquisite wines.

Enjoy a wine or juice tasting under the Vines of this celebrated estate.

Experience one of the great wonders of Africa, the subterranean wonderland of vast caverns, each filled with astonishing formations of glittering dripstones, stalagmites and stalactites.

We visit a fascinating Ostrich Show Farm where, amidst enormous flocks of these strange birds, we are shown their development from the egg to the 100 kg adult.

Visit Plettenberg Bay and see some of the finest coastal scenery along the garden Route. Keep a lookout for dolphins and whales.

Take a short walk on Natures Valley Beach and try to spot the endangered black African Oyster Catcher. Take a short stroll through the indigenous forest with giant Yellowwood trees.

Take a tour of the Diaz Maritime Museum and enjoy a fresh seafood lunch at the Mossel Bay.

Enjoy an optional boat ride out to Seal Island to view Seals, Whales and sometimes the Great White Shark.

Today our drive takes us through some wonderful mountain and coastal scenery until we reach Hermanus which is one of the leading land based Whale Watching destinations worldwide. During the winter months we will walk along the cliff path and try to find Southern Right Whales. Enjoy a wine or juice tasting en route.

Here we will get up close and interact with hundreds of African Penguins at Stoney Point. Guests may take a short hike along the seashore. Enjoy an optional lunch overlooking the Ocean. Keep a lookout for the endangered Black Oyster Catcher.