Township and Winelands Tour

7.30am

We depart from the Victoria and Alfred Hotel in The V&A Waterfront early so we can get to Imizamo Yethu, the only township in Cape Town within another suburb, as the day starts to build as people make their way to work and school and the township comes alive. We meet our local guides, Lulama and Anele, at the start of the main road and proceed up the hill towards our first stop. Imizamo Yethu is home to some 30,000 people living on the hillside of one of the most affluent suburbs of Cape Town, Hout Bay. This contrast in living conditions offers a true insight into modern day South Africa and the economic disparity that exists.

(Please note that if you are staying in the City Bowl there is an option to be collected at 07.00 from the Cape Milner Hotel in Tamboerskloof)

8.30am

We make our way through the township towards the Little Lambs pre-school where the principle, Geraldine, will show us around this amazing school with its 200 pupils. With its brightly couloured walls and beeming children the school is a hive of activity and hope for the future generations that attend. Please be advised that visits to the school are only available in term time.

9.00am

We continue our walk through IY, as it is known locally, taking in the sights and sounds with Lulama and Anele showing us all aspects of community life and introducing us to some of its residents and characters. We will stop for a coffee break along the way.

11.00am

We start to head down the hill again visiting the community centre, library and the local craft market filled with amazing items made locally from recycling. If you have a book or magazine that you have recently finished please bring it along and donate it to the Imizamo Yethu Library who always appreciate new additions to their shelves.

12pm

We continue driving up the hill to Constantia Neck where we visit our first vineyard perched above the Constantia valley – Beau Constantia. This relatively new winery has the best views in the valley from its glass walled tasting room and we will do a tasting of their Rose wine and use their vantage point to take some beautiful landscape photographs of Cape Towns oldest wine region with its rolling vineyards and Cape Dutch homesteads.

1pm

Suitably refreshed we will make our way down the hill to the beautiful Constantia Glen.The tasting room and terrace offers a beautiful perspective for photographs between the vines and is the ideal location for a delicious Mediteranian style lunch accompanied by some award winning wines on the terrace of the Constantia Glen tasting rooms.

3pm

We head back towards the V&A Waterfront again through the suburbs in the shadow of the back of Table Mountain. Clients can be dropped off at the magificent and picturesque Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens en-route by prior arrangement.