Cape Town City Tour.

Cape Town with the majestic Table Mountain as a backdrop, is one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Some of the highlights we visit are Table Mountain, Malay Quarters, Castle of Good Hope, Companies Gardens and Government Avenue, House of Parliament, S.A. Museum and a final drive to Milnerton for a full view of Table Mountain with the city in its lap. You'll get a great overview of this beautiful city. Join us for a tour of the Mother City and experience one of the best sightseeing tours in and around Cape Town.

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The best-known of South Africa's mountains, is 1 086 m above sea level at its highest point, Maclear's Beacon, which is a 50-minute easy walk from the upper cable-way station. The first recorded ascent was in 1503 by the Portuguese navigator Admiral Antonio de Saldanha, who named the mountain Taboa do Cabo, 'the Table Head'. As recently as 400 years after the admiral's climb there were only six known routes up the mountain, but today there are more than 300. From Table Mountain a 50 km range reaches southward to Cape Point, forming the backbone of the Cape Peninsula. This mountain chain is a botanist's paradise, with roughly 2 250 plant species, some of which are found nowhere else in the world. And, although hunters have exterminated all the big game from the mountain, there are still dozens of species of small fauna. There is even a patch of land about the size of a soccer field and known only to a handful of lepidopterists on which the world's only colony of a certain species of butterfly exists.

The 1 244 m-long cable way that lifts passengers from 366 m to 1 067 m above sea level in five minutes was opened in 1929 and since then has conveyed more than 5 million trippers safely up the mountain. The cars operate half-hourly between 08h30 and 18h00 in the winter months and between 08h30 and 22h30 during the summer season, wind permitting.

The Malay Quarter- is an area once occupied by white craftsmen to which many Muslim slaves gravitated after the emancipation in 1834. It has, as well as several mosques, the greatest concentration of pre-1840 architecture in South Africa and many of the buildings have been carefully restored in recent years.

This fell - the 'rump' stretching away from Lion's Head -was once the vantage point used for the exchange of messages between the city and approaching or departing ships. A shot is still fired from a signal gun on the hill to mark noon every day, except Sunday.

The summit of this striking 669 m sugar loaf mountain, which from some angles can be said to resemble the head of a lion, was in days long past the station of a signalman who fired a cannon to herald the approach of ships so that farmers could have wagons of victuals standing by when anchor was dropped in Table Bay. For those energetic enough to take the relatively easy walk to the top, Lion's Head affords an incomparable 360° panorama of sea, mountain and city.

When his ship left Table Bay in 1779 young Friedrich von Kamptz of Mecklenburg remained behind and married the widowed owner of the farm Ravensteyn on which this delightful maritime suburb has since developed. By the time Von Kamptz sold the farm to the Dutch East India Company in 1781, Ravensteyn was known as the Baai van Von Kamptz and the name, albeit corrupted, has survived.

Originally emergency housing after World War I, the earliest bungalows on the hillside at Clifton were regarded as 'movable summer cottages'. Although they are on municipal land which may not be bought, these attractive homes have now virtually become 'fixed' property. The four Clifton beaches far below Victoria Road are famous for their sunbathing bikini belle's.

The 4-km Sea Point beachfront of promenade, lawns, playgrounds, rock gardens and tidal pools was once the 'front garden' of a pleasant stretch of homes and a few hotels, but is now dominated by high-rise blocks of expensive apartments. The area has been called Sea Point ever since Captain Sam Wallis, master of one of Captain James Cook's vessels, quartered his men here to escape a smallpox epidemic which afflicted Cape Town when the explorer's flotilla spent some time in Table Bay in 1776.

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