Sunday evening: Welcome Reception
Monday 8 September: Half-day Tour (Township Tour)
Monday evening: Social evening (Moyo Restaurant)
Thursday 11 September: Day Tour: A Whale of a Time (Stellenbosch, Franschhoek, Sir Lowry's Pass)

Includes:

• Luxury Transport
• Professional English Speaking guide
• Visit to local school or community project
• Refreshments at local Shebeen

A must for any visitor to the Cape is to do a township tour and experience the vibrant and diverse cultures of the Western Cape. This is a positive and interactive tour, which will afford the visitor the opportunity to meet and speak to local people. Our guide is a specialist guide and is highly knowledgeable of the areas, their people, history and politics.

Highlights:

• District Six
• Bo-Kaap
• Cape Flats
• Langa / Khayelitsha

Although often desperately poverty stricken, townships are not only about crime and deprivation, you will witness a community spirit and be the recipient of hospitality like nowhere else! Comprising both informal, semi-formal and formal housing, the eclectic mix evident in the townships expresses a vibrancy and spirit somewhat lacking in the more urban areas. The biggest formal townships, namely Langa, Nyanga, Gugulethu and Khayelitsha have an estimated population of two million people. A township tour is a fascinating journey into the history and future of South Africa - an experience not to be missed.

Cape Town, the Mother City, hosts the majority of it's population in townships on the Cape Flats. Many of these vibrant and welcoming people originally hail from Madiba's (Nelson Mandela - former President) birthplace. It's a must for every visitor to Cape Town to experience a day in the life of the locals. Interact with the township dwellers as they go about their daily routine and find out more about their past, their future and what currently drives them.

Social Evening: Monday 8 September 2008

 Moyo Restaurant    

Tour: A Whale of a Time: Thursday 11 September
A Whale of a Time

Includes:

• Luxury Transport
• Professional English Speaking guide
• Entrance to Harold Porter Botanical Gardens & Stony Point
• Lunch at Bientangs Cave
• Mineral Waters on coach

Itinerary:
Depart for one of the Capes most beautiful coastal scenic drives to Hermanus.

Set in South Africa’s first proclaimed international biosphere, between majestic mountains, pristine beaches, rocky shores and in the heart of the Fynbos Kingdom it is blessed annually by visiting whales. This little coastal route includes Rooiels, Pringle Bay and Betty’s Bay.

Our first stop will be the Harold Porter National botanical Gardens. Located in the Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve, which boasts 1650 plant species, one of the most diverse Fynbos hotspots in the Cape Floral Kingdom. Enjoy a guided stroll through these beautiful gardens. From the Gardens we will stop at Stony Point to visit the second largest land based African Penguin Colony in the Cape.

Continue on to the Seaside town of Hermanus. A popular holiday destination for tourists and locals alike, Hermanus is hailed as offering the best land based whale watching in the world. From May onwards Southern Right Whales pay homage to these warm, shallow waters in order to calf their young and to mate. The best time for whale watching is between August and November and at this time the bay is dotted with whales. More often than not, they're more than happy to put on a performance.

The clifftop vantage point is presided over by the worlds only official “Whale Crier”, whose job it is to alert the public - he carries a horn made of kelp- that the whales have been spotted in the bay.

A light lunch will be served in the intriguing Bientangs Cave, which is nestled in the base of the cliff and overlooks the beach. It is thought to be the original home of Bientang, said to be the last indigenous strandloper (beach walker) of these parts.

After lunch explore the local market and quaint town with its interesting collection of antique shops, boutiques and art galleries.

Return to the hotel via the breathtaking Sir Lowry’s Pass.