Table Mountain by cable car
Groote Schuur, Castle of Hood Hope, Slave Lodge
Cape Peninsula Nature Reserve and Cape Point
The Waterfront for shopping, restaurants, Two Oceans Aquarium, Scratch Patch semi-precious stones
Kirstenbosch, one of the world's Magnificent Seven botanical gardens
Scenic championship golf courses
Drama, opera, jazz and ballet in city and open-air theatres
Many culture tours, homes, food, music, arts and crafts
The Peninsula's beaches and harbours, home to millionaires and fisherfolk
Penguin Colony at Boulders, where you share the beach with the birds
Whale watching as the Southern Rights return to calve in shallow water
Bird watching, hundreds of species in sanctuaries
Sailing in Table Bay and False Bay
Accompanied horse rides, forests, beaches and vineyards
Game fishing, tuna and billfish
Harley Davidson motorcycle tours around the coast or through the Winelands
Guided mountain walks
Guided scuba diving offshore
Meet Great White sharks in the safety of an underwater cage

ADD-ON EXCURSIONS, DAY TOURS AND OVERNIGHT STAYS

Tours of the Mother City

Cape Town's historical buildings and fascinating museums include the Castle, District Six Museum, Jewish and Holocaust Museums, Groote Schuur House and Slave Museum. Township culture and music tours take in craft centres and shebeens, the Bo-Kaap historical Malay Quarter, multi-cultural cuisine - African, Malay, European and Oriental. Meet the South Africans at home for dinner.

The Cape in Nelson Mandela's life

Leave the Nelson Mandela Gateway in Table Bay Harbour for Robben Island to see the prison where Madiba spent two decades, including his cell and the quarry where he worked, as well as unused World War 2 defences. You will see the Victorian village, penguin colony, harbour, tomb and museum on a drive around the island. In Cape Town, visit the District Six Museum - an apartheid memorial and Parliament, where Prisoner Mandela became President Mandela.

Winelands

Three hundred years of vine-growing and wine-making in the beautiful Boland, the Cape's highlands, has resulted in a collection of historic homes and farms scattered through mountain-girt valleys on several Wine Routes through and around the leafy towns of Paarl, Stellenbosch and Franschhoek.

Discover working wine estates centred on white walled Cape Dutch gabled manor houses or modern cellars, which welcome visitors to tour, taste and buy. Many have good restaurants, picnics, vineyard walks and rides, and will ship home your purchases. Tours of this area can take a day or a week and country hospitality includes elegant manors, town houses and guest cottages.

Nearby: Cape Town, False Bay beaches, Cedarberg mountains.

Power Thrills

Historical flights in vintage aircraft around the Cape Peninsula to see it laid out below you with yachts in the bay, clouds on the mountain; or catch a thrill at Thunder City, the world's biggest working squadron of privately owned combat jets. 4x4 assault course and quad-bikes too, the ultimate adrenaline rush.

Namaqualand Spring Flower Spectacular

The colourful pageant of the Cape's spring wild flowers spreads throughout the Western and Northern Cape. Tour routes are chosen each day to catch the flowers at their peak. Coach, chauffeured or self-drive routes take visitors to the farms and reserves where millions of flowers are spread in a vibrant carpet of colour and to the small towns that nestle among them. The sandveld, which the flowers bring alive each year, stretches up the West Coast. Darling, Worcester and Langebaan provide lunch or overnight stays. Artists and photographers revel in the inspiration of this season from mid-August to mid-October.

Nearby: Hermanus and Whale Route, Worcester Farm Museum

God's Green Route

The famous Garden Route runs from Cape Town over the passes, through rolling wheatlands and rugged coast to Mossel Bay and Knysna. Enjoy cruises to the Featherbed nature reserve, boating, crafts and walking in the Knysna Forest. The Cango Caves, Tsitsikama Forest, Plettenberg Bay's beaches, Outeniqua tjoe-choo steam train, river rafting and the world's highest bungi-jump at the Storms River Mouth, are all on the route to the settler cities of Port Elizabeth and East London.

Country towns

Surrounded by vineyards, wheatlands, wildflowers and mountains, South Africa's history can be read in the buildings of Worcester, Tulbagh, Swellendam, Langebaan, Stellenbosch and Paarl.

Coastal Views and Fishing Harbours - driving the stunning coastal roads of the Peninsula, through seaside suburbs and villages with fish markets, antique shops and restaurants.

Whale Route to Hermanus from July to December - through tracts of wildflowers down the rocky coast to a fishing village that has become a resort with an arts festival, where a whale-crier calls when the whales arrive.

WE TAILOR-MAKE SPECIAL INTEREST TOURS LIKE THESE:

Adventure Tours - hiking and walking on scenic trails, sandboarding, sailing, kloofing, abseiling, bungi-jumping, para-gliding, accompanied mountain biking and scuba diving, walking, sea-kayaking, skydiving, ballooning, hang-gliding, cage-diving to see great white sharks and ragged toothed sharks, safaris to big and small game reserves.

Painting - visiting beauty spots with an expert tutor, including Cape Town's historical areas, Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens, Arniston fishing village, Franschhoek mountains and vineyards.

Horticulture, Hospitality and History - National Botanical and private gardens with horticulturists and botanists. Cape Gourmet Festival in May with local and international chefs. South Africans at home in city, township and historical places.

Jazz, Music and Art - choose from African Harvest North Sea Jazz Festival, open air opera and floating opera in March, or see them all. Summer concerts in the open air at Spier, Oude Libertas, Kirstenbosch. November is film month; galleries and markets hold art from all over Africa.

The Story of Wine - visit a number of wine estates, in historic manor houses and new wineries, meeting wine makers, tasting and hearing about this romantic, colourful industry.

Fossil Trail - including the West Coast Fossil Park where experts tell the story of the very early people who lived here, where Eve left her Footprint, (preserved at the South African museum in Cape Town), and Africa's first artists left their masterpieces.