Activities in Africa
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Scuba Dive or Snorkel with Great White Sharks
11 hours (Departs Cape Town, South Africa)
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Join this tour for the underwater experience of a lifetime as you scuba dive or snorkel with the Great White Sharks of South Africa! Take the opportunity during…Not LP reviewed
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Grassroute Tours
One of the most experienced operators of townships tours (half/full day R320/480), its program includes evening tours (R390 including dinner) with a visit to a shebeen (drinking establishment) and a ride on a donkey cart.
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Graham Duncan Smith
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Gateway to Newlands
Sports fans may be interested in these tours of Cape Town’s main cricket and rugby stadiums and the Sports Science Institute of South Africa. Whistle-stop tours kick off at adult/child R40/25, while longer ones including the tiny Rugby Museum and cost R65/42.
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Fynbos Estate
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Downhill Adventures
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Dinner@Mandela’s
A highly recommended alternative or addition to the daytime township tour is this evening tour and dinner combination at the Imizamo Yethu township in Hout Bay, which runs Monday and Thursday at 7pm from the Long St Café. The meal, which covers all the African traditional dishes and is veggie-friendly, is held at Tamfanfa’s Tavern and is preceded by lively African dancing and a choir singing in Xhosa (isiXhosa) and English.
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Day Trippers
This outfit has an excellent reputation. Many of the tours include the chance to go cycling, if you so choose. Most tours cost around R495 and include Cape Point, the Winelands and whale-watching (in season).
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Coffee Beans Routes
The concept – hooking up visitors with interesting local personalities, including jazz musicians, footballers, artists and gardeners – is fantastic. Among innovative programs is their Friday night reggae safari trip to Marcus Garvey, a Rastafarian settlement in Philippi, for a night of Jamaican food and, after midnight, reggae at a dance hall.
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Charlotte Swatbooi
A local guide for a walking tour around Masiphumelele.
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Cellar Cuvee Classique
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Cape Wine Academy
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Cape Town on Foot
Led by experienced guide Ursula Stevens, the tour leaves from Cape Town Tourism’s office on Burg St.
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Cape Town Cycle Hire
Delivers and collects bikes free of charge to the City Bowl and down the Atlantic seaboard to Llandudno.
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Cape Peninsula Tours/Ben’s Bikes
Bike tours on reconditioned Dutch bikes around Masiphumelele or the forests and Winelands of Tokai.
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Cape Fisher Tours
Melshaw Wyngaard can take you on a fishing trip from Kommetjie as well as a walking tour of the Ocean View fishing community. Trips can be combined with dinner at his mum Cheryl’s home-based restaurant Cape Fisher’s Den – mussels, squid and crayfish are on the menu but its Cheryl’s tales of her family that are the main attraction.
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Cape Capers Tours
Award-winning guide Faizel Gangat leads a band of informative guides to the townships, with tours concentrating either on Langa (R320) or the Cape Care Route (R390), highlighting some of the city’s standout community and environmental projects. They also have a half-day tour of the Bo-Kaap and former District Six area (R320).
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Birdwatch Cape
Offers informative tours pointing out the many unique species of the Cape bird kingdom.
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Avis
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Apex Shark Expeditions
Chris and Monique Fallows run shark-watching trips from Simon’s Town – so you don’t have to schlep out to Gansbaai. There’s no cage involved – should you choose, you can go snorkel with the big fish. They also specialise in trips to see the pelagic birds – an awesome sight of thousands of sea birds including up to seven species of albatross.
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Tourism Community Development Trust
Started in 1999 by key people in the local backpacker travel industry who wanted to help build a crèche in the Cape Flats townships, this has been achieved and the trust has since grown and become a major organisation taking on other education projects. Leave your old clothes so they can be sold to raise money for the trust at Ashanti Lodge.
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The Homestead
Going since in 1982, when it set up Cape Town’s first shelter for street children, it runs several programs in the region, including job-creation schemes.
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Table Mountain Trail
Those looking for a short, comfortable hike can opt for the fully catered three-day, two-night Table Mountain Trail, starting at the Waterfront and proceeding through the City Bowl. The first night is spent at a well-appointed lodge at the historic Platteklip Wash House in Vredehoek, on the lower northern slopes of the mountain. On day two the hike continues up to the cableway and then to the summit and across the mountaintop. The night is spent at the Overseers Cottage on the mountain’s Back Table. On the final day hikers explore the Back Table and descend via the eastern slopes of the mountain to Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens.
The trail costs R1900 per person…
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Streetsmart
Check the website for a list of Cape Town restaurants signed up to this program that applies a donation of R5 to every bill to the street kids’ charity.
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Ons Plek
Provides a shelter for girls living on the streets.
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