Cape Town & the Winelands
Attractions
Cape Town combines a working harbour city with Table Mountain National Park on its doorstep, while the Winelands towns of Stellenbosch, Franschhoek and Paarl sit under the Cape Fold mountains less than an hour inland.
Climate
Mediterranean: warm, dry summers from November to March and wet, windy winters from June to August.
Activities
Table Mountain and the cable car, coastal drives to Hout Bay and Cape Point, wine tasting through the Winelands, and beach time at Camps Bay or Bloubergstrand.
At a glance
Routes that include Cape Town & the Winelands
Cape to Kruger by Train
City and Winelands time in Cape Town, followed by Rovos Rail from Cape Town to Johannesburg, and on to the lowveld for a Kruger safari.
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Orange River Drift with Kalahari Sand
An arid wildlife expedition from the Cape Winelands into two of the country's great deserts. Days tracking predators in the Kalahari, black-maned lions among them, lead to drifting down the Orange River through the Richtersveld after largemouth yellowfish. The Cape's wines are there to look back on it all.
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Wild Flowers, Cheetahs and Red Dunes
Cape Town and the Winelands, north along the West Coast, then east into the red dunes of the Kalahari. Travel in August or September and the road north runs through Namaqualand in flower, with wildflowers to the horizon for a few short weeks after the winter rain. In the Kgalagadi, game drives follow the dry riverbeds to the waterholes, looking for cheetah and the Kalahari's black-maned lions. Evenings end with sundowners on the dunes under night skies with almost no light pollution.
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Ultimate South Africa
Three weeks covering the Cape, the southern coast, the Drakensberg and Zululand, and the Kruger lowveld.
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