City, Table Mountain
& Kirstenbosch - Private Full-Day Tour
Cape Peninsula,
South Africa
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CITY, TABLE
MOUNTAIN & KIRSTENBOSCH (Private
Full-Day Tour)
Depart the city for the Lower Cableway Station to board the revolving
cable car, for a 5-minute ride to the top of Table Mountain.
One thousand thirty six meters above sea level, it affords
bird’s-eye
views of both city and peninsula as you walk its summit (weather
permitting).
Return to the city via the old Cape Malay Quarter, for a walk through the Company
Gardens, a fresh produce garden for ships and locals from the mid 17th Century
and home to the SA Museum, Cultural History Museum, Houses of Parliament, National
Gallery and St George’s Cathedral. Stroll through the city to Greenmarket
Square to browse African mementos at its bustling market stalls.
Drive to the Castle, the oldest building in South Africa, with its collection
of Old Cape paintings and take in the Grand Parade where Nelson Mandela
addressed the nation upon his release in 1990. Move on to the District Six
Museum,
highlighting the colorful life of this legendary city area and the bitter, forced
removal of its residents during the Apartheid era.
Continue to Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens, on the suburban slopes of
Table Mountain, for lunch in what is arguably the most magnificent of all indigenous
plant gardens in the world. Founded in 1895, it is home to many specimens of
the unique Cape
Floral Kingdom (one of the largest in the world, with some 8,600 species,
including the classic Protea). Explore varied biomes and displays, from medicinal
plants and desert dwellers, to a forest of prehistoric cycads, until the sun
sets.
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