CONFERENCE TOURS

Delegates Free Afternoon: Tuesday 09 September

Minimum 15 pax / Tour

1) CITY ORIENTATION TOUR, TABLE MT CABLE CAR

Price per person: R 475 per person

Includes:

Excludes:
Table Mountain Cable Car @ R130.00 per person (weather permitting)

Itinerary:
Today we begin our exploration of Cape Town as we tell the story of the city's dramatic past.
Governors and slaves; reformers and missionaries; empire builders and ordinary people, all who played an extra-ordinary role for a new democratic nation.

As we drive through the streets of Cape Town your professional guide will give you a historical back ground to one of South Africa’s most beautiful cities. Drive through the city along Adderley Street, past the Old Slave Lodge and statue of Jan Smuts, onto St George’s Cathedral and pass the Company Gardens. The Company gardens, originally laid out in 1652 by Jan Van Riebeeck as a vegetable garden to provide fresh produce for the Dutch East India Company ships.

The coach then travels along Strand Street, and up to the Malay Quarter for a brief visit to the Bo-Kaap.

Continue from the City tour on to Table Mountain.

Table Mountain:
Table Mountain provides Cape Town with a uniquely beautiful setting. Visible at times from 200 kilometres out at sea, the mountain made the anchorage of Table Bay easy to find and attracted early seafarers to the “Tavern of the Seas” for shelter, drinking water and fresh produce.

Weather permitting take the Rotair Cable Car to the upper cable car station situated at 1067m. The revolving cable car gives stunning, vertiginous views over Cape Town and its surroundings. The level but rocky summit provides breathtaking views - the City and Table Bay are spread out below. To the south is the Cape of Good Hope, where the peninsula thrusts between two great currents, and to the north lie the Hottentots-Holland Mountains.

Plan B - Weather Plan:
In the event we cannot go up Table Mountain due to the Weather we will visit Signal Hill which offers a good view point over Cape Town and then continue on to the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront.


B) CAPE WINE EXPERIENCE

Price per person: : R 475 per person

Includes:

Itinerary:
Today we will travel to Franschhoek This is an area surrounded by vineyards, fruit orchards and mountains renowned for a gracious blend of 18th Century Cape Dutch, Georgian and Victorian architecture - a haven where visitors will have time to savour the atmosphere of this unique town and its museums.

Take the breathtaking Hellshoogte pass over to Boschendal. Experience what has made Boschendal, one of South Africa's most awarded wine estates and learn how the winemaking tradition continues to produce wine with new world elegance and a finesse coupled with old world charm. Part of the present Boschendal winery was originally the cellar for Le Rhone Manor House, built in 1795.

Continue on to Explore the quaint town of Franschhoek. This magical village pays homage to its 17th century Hugenot origins capturing the essence of French food and wine culture in a quintessential African way.

C) CAPE POINT

Price per person: R 560.00

Includes:

Itinerary:
Depart the hotel for the Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve (Cape Point). Though exposed, often windswept, and less verdant than the rest of the Peninsula, the 7750ha reserve has as many plant varieties as there are in the whole of Britain. In addition to the predominating protea and heath varieties there are numerous endangered species and a few that are found nowhere else. The fauna includes eland, bontebok, rhebok, grysbok, springbok, baboon, porcupine, ostrich and zebra.

The principal road through the reserve ends near the summit of Cape Point from where guests have the choice to walk or to take a funicular. The Funicular travels up the steep slope to the highest point for a panoramic view of False Bay and the Hottentots Holland Mountains beyond and downward, for the vantage point is 209m above the rocks.

The Lighthouse can then be visited which has long been one of the world’s shipping beacons, marking the turning point between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.

Dine around at the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront

Situated between Robben Island and Table Mountain the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront has become the most visited working harbour by tourists and locals alike.
Whatever reason has brought you to eat at the V&A Waterfront, you're sure to enjoy the widest selection of culinary delights from across the globe and the very best in local cuisine. Whatever your mood, style or budget the V&A Waterfront restaurant selection is able to cater to your specific tastes. To make any occasion special all you have to do is sit back and relax. We'll do the rest.

Cape Selections can arrange and co-ordinate shuttle transfers for delegates from the Lord Charles to the Waterfront.

Departure times:
19h30 – Depart Lord Charles
22h30 – Depart the V&A Waterfront

Cost per person Return: R160.00 (minimum 15 pax)

Contact:
Cape Selections
Wendy Allison Girdlestone
wendy@capeselections.co.za
+27+21+551 0258