The Western Cape is one of South Africa’s premier tourist attractions, and for good reason. From the famous icon of Table Mountain to vast winelands and exquisite beaches to world-class restaurants and cosmopolitan entertainment haunts. For its exquisite scenic beauty - the province is renowned for being the favourite playground of fashion and film crews the world over. The Cape also boasts a myriad of cultures and tourist treasures that are just waiting to be discovered. So what are you waiting for...

Major Attractions:

• Table Mountain
Cape Town’s most famous landmark – a quick spin by revolving cable car to the 1 086m summit will give the visitor a grand view of the most beautiful city in the world, and of course the equally famous South African `Alcatraz’ – Robben Island.

• The Famous V & A Waterfront
The most visited attraction in Africa is the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront with its assortment of shopping, eating, entertainment and sightseeing facilities, all set within a working harbour. 

• Robben Island
The V & A Waterfront is also the gateway to Robben Island, a former prison (now national monument) where a visit is an emotional journey echoing with the sorrows of stalwarts of ‘the struggle’ against apartheid. The island was `home’ to many of South Africa’s freedom fighters including Nelson Mandela.

• Cape Fortress
The oldest surviving building in South Africa, and well preserved too, is the Castle of Good Hope, the pentagonal fortress built by personnel of the Dutch East India Company back in the 1660s-70s. Today it houses the regional headquarters of the South African Defence Force in the Western Cape and a military museum.

• Africa’s Most Southerly Point
A stop at Cape Point gives the visitor the opportunity to boast of having been at the most south-westerly point of Africa, where the cold Benguela and the warm Agulhus currents (west and east respectively) meet.  Some 26 shipwrecks have been recorded at Cape Point, some of them presenting good diving spots. A funicular takes visitors on scenic trips to an old lighthouse and the spot is a bird watcher’s paradise.

• Most Fabulous Beaches in the World
There’s a beach to suit every mood in Cape Town:

Clifton for those who want to see and be seen
Sandy Bay for the nudists
Muizenberg with its colourful bathing boxes for a good swim in warm water
Kommetjie for watersports. 
Fishhoek is a quaint seaside village
Hout Bay has a colourful fishing harbour and craft market
Kalk Bay attracts antique hunters
Boulder’s Beach at Simon’s Town is home to a colony of Jackass penguins.

• Shopping Frenzy
Cape Town has many markets and impressive shopping centres and malls. However one of the most talked about shopping venues is the impressive than the 400-outlet Canal Walk Century City.  It also boasts a 20-theatre cinema complex.  For adrenaline-pumping entertainment, there’s Ratanga Junction, a 30-attraction theme park with roller coasters, activities, or the glitzy Grand West Casino & Entertainment World.

• Great Gardens of the World
A day in Cape Town might end with a classical concert at sundown in one of the world’s great botanical gardens – Kirstenbosch, a repository for many rare fynbos species and a wealth of indigenous plants, trees and flowers.

• Nightlife
Cape Town city centre is known to many as the party capital of Africa, down just a few streets in the Mother City there are hundreds of bars, restaurants and clubs just waiting to be explored through to the wee hours of the morning. Cape Town is also known as a pink city, offering a warm welcome to the gay and lesbian community.

• The West Coast
The West Coast offers some of the greatest of small town South Africa. This is a region that needs to be savoured, slowly, and therefore road trips along the West Coast are a firm favourite with locals and international visitors. Not only does the area offer some of the most beautiful scenery in the world – mountains, oceans and views that go on forever, this coast is also a haven for the finest South African hospitality. Welcome…..

• The Winelands
Just a 45-minute drive from Cape Town and you’re in the mountains and valleys of the Winelands – all gracious gabled Cape Dutch homesteads, cask-lined cellars, oak-treed towns and ultra fine restaurants.

The towns of Stellenbosch, Franschoek and Paarl are delightful and beg to be explored and savoured….like a good wine, very slowly.

There’s quite of choice of routes to amble leisurely along, calling in at historical homes, partaking in the ceremony of wine-tasting and sampling traditional fare such as bobotie and waterblommetjie stew.

• The Garden Route
This land of lakes, bays, mountains and forests languishes on the southern coast from Heidelberg to the Tsitsikamma Forest and Storms River.  It’s a nook of the country that offers inspiration to writers and artists whose presence gives the Garden Route a trendy flavour. It is also a top priority of many a foreign visitor. 

This coastal drive links a series of charming towns interspersed with natural wonder.  Along the way, every kind of adventure activity is possible – scuba diving, abseiling, fishing and more.