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Cape Town city

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Come take a majestically scenic drive with us through our beautiful Cape Winelands. We visit Wine farms in Paarl, Stelenbosch and Franschoek and included in this is cellar tours and cheese and wine tasting. You might even spot a Cheetah!

• Fairview (Wine Farm) – wine and cheese tasting. This is a unique family orientated outing, great fun to observe strutting peacocks and goats ascending a goat ladder to their Goat Tower. Fairview produces top quality goat cheeses, all for tasting and olive oil. Famous for their top-drawer wines they also have innovative varieties with unusual qualities, zinfandel-cinsaut blend and shiraz-mourvedre-viognier to name a few.
• Cellar Tour
• Drive past the Groot Drakenstein Prison, where Nelson Mandela was released in 1990.

• (French Corner) derivative of the first white settlers who were French Huguenots from France who embarked on migration to the Cape to escape their persecution by the Catholics in the 1600s. They brought much expertise in winemaking with them. Franshoek is surrounded by towering mountains, a scenic spectacle. This tour covers wine tasting at one of the many Franshoek Vineyards.

• Franshoek Village, aesthetically beautiful with renovated cottages and stunning gardens displaying roses and swathes of lavender.  It also plays host to a culinary Mecca famous for restaurants and cafes that line the main street. In October the Village hosts a music festival with local and visiting artists. The Tour offers an optional lunch stop in Franshoek Village.

• Huguenot Memorial, this adorns the end of the main road through Franshoek. Built in 1948 it pays tribute to the Huguenots’ contribution to the development of South Africa. Three arches represent the Holy Trinity and the female figure in front represents Freedom of Conscience.

• Helshoogte Mountain Pass, this impressive pass is a mini tour in itself. It transcends through panoramic winelands with stunning views. The mountain is called Simonsberg or Simon’s Mountain, named after Simon Van Der Stel, former Dutch governor of the Cape Colony (1639-1712) the story goes that the shape of the mountain is Simon lying on his back.

• There is much to see in the city tour of Stellenboch. This is the second oldest municipality to Cape Town. Oak lined streets are adorned with old irrigation furrows, giving a full effect of its founding age (1679). An architectural dream with examples of Cape Dutch, Georgian, Victorian and Regency buildings and houses all fully restored. It lies amongst the fertile winelands once host to rolling wheat lands. The main street is redolent of a national monument with quaint old shops and stores, one even selling witblitz and mampoer, Afrikaans versions of moonshine!!! There is a Stellenbosch Museum housing antiquities. The V.O.C.  Arsenal is resplendent with old weaponry, guns, powder holders and cannons and there is also a Toy and Miniature Museum.
• A cheetah that you can touch (optional)
• Informal Wine tasting, time permitting.