Cape Town

Distance
140 km (87 mi)

Itinerary
8 am to 4 pm
This day of your Cape Town tour focuses on Cape Point and the Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve. The tour is a scenic delight, with some of the most impressive coastal roads in South Africa carved into steep mountainsides high above the Atlantic Ocean.
The lighthouse at Cape Point was originally built in 1859 at the highest point—249m above sea level. The old lighthouse was, however, replaced after a great shipping disaster, with the new one built 87m above sea level. The visit to Cape Point is followed by a short visit to Boulders Beach, where we observe the antics of a colony of penguins before returning to Cape Town in the late afternoon.