Historical City Tour

Guest will be collected from their hotel and taken to the lower cableway station on the slopes of Table Mountain. Weather permitting, ascend the mountain by aerial cable car (entrance fee excluded), and from a height of 1067 metres, view the city and Table Bay below, Robben Island, the Atlantic Seaboard as well as most of the spectacular Cape Peninsula. Afterwards, 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.

We then proceed to the St Georges Cathedral, known as ‘the people’s cathedral’ because of its role in the resistance against apartheid, where Archbishop Desmond Tutu led a mass demonstration of 30 000 people to Grand Parade in 1989  during the Apartheid Struggle.

As part of the full day option, we can visit the famous Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens in the early afternoon. The botanical gardens are located only 13km from the Cape Town city centre and boast over 7 000 plant species, including many rare and threatened species. Here you will experience Cape flora in all its diversity, something for which the garden is renowned. You'll also see a host of other indigenous plants, including rich collections of bulbs, alpines and ferns. All these species grow naturally in Southern Africa and can be found in the main section, along with a massive baobab tree. At the Fragrance Garden, you will be exposed to familiar and unfamiliar smells, while the Medicinal Garden will fascinate you with some of the diverse medicinal plants found in South Africa. Don't miss the Water-wise Garden, where you can learn how to grow and maintain a garden with less water than is conventionally required.   In the Botanical Society Conservatory you will see species from the arid areas of South Africa. Also featured at the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden is the Peninsula Garden, which contains many of the 2 500 plant species found on the Cape Peninsula. For an unforgettable experience of the king protea, South Africa's national flower, you must visit the Protea Garden, especially in spring when the proteas are flowering. With this wealth of biodiversity, it's not surprising the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden is are admired as one of the great botanical gardens of the world, helped by the fact that it is part of the Cape Floral Kingdom, a UNESCO World Heritage Site

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