Cape Town, South Africa, Cape Point, Good Hope, Penguins, Simon's Town, Chapman's peak

Wildlife Tours

Cape Point and Peninsula tour

Includes: guided walk or tea with community member of fishing village, entrance fees Boulder’s penguin colony in Victorian Simon’s Town & Cape Point, Chapman’s Peak Drive & transfers, accredited guide

This full-day tour takes you all the way to world-renowned Cape Point, the most southwesterly tip of Africa, situated in the Cape of Good Hope nature Reserve. En route, we will circle the southern peninsula, soaking up the magnificent Atlantic coastline as we pass through the trendy beach culture of Camps Bay, the picturesque fishing harbour of Kalk Bay, and historic Simon’s Town. Travelling in an intimate group of no more than 12 people, you will be able to enjoy the personal attention of your knowledgeable guide.

As you wind your way through the working port, your local guide will tell you more about the heritage of this unique and colourful town and the fishing community that live there.

Like many of the Cape’s smaller fishing industries, the Hout Bay fishermen have their work cut out for them to eke out a living. Through merely taking this tour, you are helping Andulela to fulfil their goal of giving back to this historic town and its community.

Our route takes us along the nine kilometres and 114 curves of Chapman’s Peak Drive. Linking Noordhoek and Hout Bay, this road is one of the most spectacular marine drives in the world. It skirts Chapman’s Peak, the 593 m southerly extension of Constantia Berg, and follows the rocky wrinkles of the coast, affording you an endless succession of jaw-dropping ocean views. We’ll make a stop at Simon’s Town to visit the droll two-tone denizens of the Boulders Penguin Colony. Boulders is part of the Cape Peninsula National Park, and home to almost 3000 African penguins. Locally known as the Jackass Penguin - so called for its oft-sounded lachrymose bray – the African Penguin is a familiar companion to the citizens of Simon’s Town. Waddling amidst the rounded rocks and hunting for fish in False Bay, these endangered, flightless birds are free to roam the seas and return to their private haven - Foxy Beach.

Our next stop is the stunning Cape Point nature Reserve. Set on the most southwesterly point of the continent, where the two oceans meet, and forming the tip of the 22 100 hectare Table Mountain National Park, the Cape Point nature Reserve is a World Heritage Site; and for good reason. Here you will be standing at the very tip of what was once called the Cape of Storms and later restyled the Cape of Good Hope, where Vasco da Gama and Bartholomeu Diaz before him blazed the trade routes that would forever change global economic reality.

The arresting, rugged terrain is a sanctuary for several wild animals, including antelope, baboons and ostrich, at least 250 species of wild bird, and approximately 1 100 indigenous plant species, some of which grow nowhere else on earth. Dare yourself to approach the edge of one of the highest sea cliffs in the world - 249 m above sea level. And once you’ve had your fill of the heady fresh air blown straight in from the Antarctic, you can indulge in a main course at the spectacularly placed Two Oceans Restaurant.

Then we proceed to our last port of call: the charming fishing village of Kalk Bay. Tucked between the mountains and the sea, this disarmingly quaint town has one of the oldest working fishing harbours in South Africa.

Then its back to the city for a night’s restful slumber, such as only a day in the bracing sea air can give you.


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