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Cape of Good Hope Full Day Tour

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Duration: 9 hours

Departs: Cape Town, Cape Town

Ticket Type: Mobile or paper ticket accepted

Free cancellation

Up to 24 hours in advance.

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Overview

A sightseeing drive to the Cape Point Nature reserve and around the Cape Peninsula is a “must do” day trip when visiting Cape Town. The magnificent Cape Point route is one of the great day tours from Cape Town. It is also one of the most remarkable drives anywhere in the world and features steep cliffs, stunning vistas and plenty of sightseeing opportunities!

Cape of Good Hope Tour Highlights:
• View Clifton beach, Camps Bay and Twelve Apostles mountain range
• Visit Hout Bay (take an optional boat ride to Seal Island)
• Drive along Chapman’s Peak
• Cape Point Nature Reserve
• Cape Point Lighthouse
• Cape of Good Hope
• Visit Penguin Colony at Boulders Beach
• Drive through Simon’s Town, Kalk Bay and Muizenberg
• Depart: 08h00 am to 09h00 am
• Return: 17h30 pm to 18h00 pm

What's Included

Driver/guide

Fuel surcharge

Hotel pickup and drop-off

National Park fees

What's Not Included

Entrance fees (Penguin Colony and Optional boat trip to Seal Island)

Food and drinks

Traveler Information

INFANT: Age: 0 - 2
CHILD: Age: 3 - 11
ADULT: Age: 12 - 99

Additional Info

Gear/equipment sanitised between use
Hand sanitiser available to travellers and staff
Regularly sanitised high-traffic areas
Specialized infant seats are available
Transportation vehicles regularly sanitised

Chapman's Peak drive might be closed if wind is to strong on the day. However, an alternative route will be taken as the tour is not weather dependent.
Guides required to regularly wash hands
Public transportation options are available nearby
Social distancing enforced throughout experience
Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.

Experience may be cancelled due to Insufficient travelers

What To Expect

Cape Point Nature Reserve

The tour departs from your hotel to Camps Bay Bay for a stop at Maidens Cove for some photo opportunities of the Twelve Apostles mountain range. Tour continues to Hout Bay for an optional boat trip to Duikers Island where you can view and appreciate a colony of seals that inhabit Seal Island.

Afterwards we make our way to the famous Chapman’s Peak drive our way to the Cape Point Nature Reserve with a stop at Cape of Good Hope for an opportunity to have your photo taken at the famous picture board of the most South Western tip of the African Continent. You will then stop at Cape Point to visit the upper lighthouse

The tour then heads to Boulders Beach to view a colony of African Jackass Penguins at the penguin colony at close range. From Simon’s Town the tour proceeds through Fish Hoek, you will then pass Kalk Bay and Muizenberg.

9 hours • Admission Ticket Not Included

Maidens' Cove

Maiden’s Cove is a beautiful scenic lookout point nestled between Clifton’s beaches and Glen Beach in the prestigious suburb of Camps Bay in Cape Town, Western Cape. It is well renowned for its exquisite vistas of Table Mountain and the Twelve Apostles, as well as its view of the Atlantic Ocean.

The parking and grassy area at Maiden’s Cove is a popular spot to watch the sunset, and there are braai areas for those who wish to make an evening or day of it. Dolphins can often be spotted frolicking in the water and during the months of June to November, it’s fantastic for whale watching.

20 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

Hout Bay

The Bay Harbour Market in Hout Bay features a cosy atmosphere, with a fireplace and live music, which is ideal for friends and families to gather. When paired with the sizzling hot food, the Bay Harbour Market promises a market experience you’ll come back to again and again.

Patrons can expect a wide variety of food offerings, live entertainment, craft beer on tap, cultural curios, organic products, proudly South African clothing items, unique artwork, and an abundance of sweet treats at the Bay Harbour Market – all set in a shabby-chic, reinvented old factory.

60 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Chapman's Peak Drive

‘You gotta do Chappies’ is a common refrain to hear in Cape Town. ‘Chappies’ is local speak for Chapman’s Peak Drive, and it’s one of Cape Town‘s most famous landmarks. It’s nine kilometres and 114 curves of breathtaking scenery that takes you from Noordhoek to Hout Bay or the other way around. Some say it is one of the most spectacular marine drives in the world.

15 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

Cape of Good Hope

Along with Cape Horn, the Cape of Good Hope is one of the world’s most famous navigational landmarks. Located at the meeting point between the Atlantic and the Indian Oceans, this geographical ‘accident’ is famous for its wild seas and the violent winds which beat up against it. It is also the great gate into the “Roaring Forties”. The Cape of Good Hope marks the point where a ship begins to travel more eastward than southward. Thus, the first modern rounding of the cape in 1488 by Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias was a milestone in the attempts by the Portuguese to establish direct trade relations with the Far East (although Herodotus mentioned a claim that the Phoenicians had done so far earlier). Dias called the cape Cabo das Tormentas (“Cape of Storms”; Dutch: Stormkaap), which was the original name of the “Cape of Good Hope”.

30 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

Cape Point

The lighthouse at Cape Point is the most powerful on the South African coast. It has a range of 63 kilometres, and beams out a group of three flashes of 10 million candlepower each, every 30 seconds. But, through history, mariners had taken a rather dimmer view of warning beacons around the Point.

A lighthouse was built In 1857, on Cape Point Peak, 238 metres above sea level. The equipment for the lighthouse had been shipped from England. However, because of its high position, clouds and fog often obscured the lighthouse. In fact, for an alarming 900 hours per year on average, its light was invisible to ships at sea at a certain angle.

60 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Boulders Beach Penguin Colony

This picturesque area, with enormous boulders dividing small, sandy coves, is home to a colony of some 3000 delightful African penguins. A boardwalk runs from the Boulders Visitor Centre at the Foxy Beach end of the protected area – part of Table Mountain National Park – to Boulders Beach, where you can get down on the sand and mingle with the waddling penguins. Don’t, however, be tempted to pet them: they have sharp beaks that can cause serious injuries.

The aquatic birds, which are an endangered species, were formerly called jackass penguins on account of their donkey-like braying – you’ll have a chance to hear it if you turn up during the main breeding season, which peaks from March to May.

There will be two places to see these amazing animals: a paying side at the actual colony or the public beach where the penguins just roam around freely.

2 hours • Admission Ticket Not Included

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