Tours During Congress

A number of tours are on offer before, during and after the Congress.

You may book tours now online or during the Congress at the designated Travel Agent counter that will be located within the registration area.

For further assistance or additional information about the offered tours, please contact
Cathari Johnson, email: cathari@terra-nova.co.za Tel: +27 21 448 9965

Day Tours

1. A - Express Table Mountain and City Tour

Price: R 476,00 per person
Meeting Point: 15:15 - Alongside the Convention Centre in Walter Sisulu Avenue

Code: TME01
Date: 16 August 2015
Time: 13:30 – 15:30
[Cut-Off-Day: 12h00 – 15 August 2015]

Code: TME02
Date: 16 August 2015
Time: 15:30 – 17:30
[Cut-Off-Day: 12h00 – 15 August 2015]

1.B - Table Mountain and City Tour

Price: R 476,00 per person
Meeting Point: 15:15 - Alongside the Convention Centre in Walter Sisulu Avenue

Code: TM03
Date: 19 August 2015
Time: 09:00 – 12:30
[Cut-Off-Day: 12h00 – 18 August 2015]

Code: TM04
Date: 20 August 2015
Time: 09:00 – 12:30
[Cut-Off-Day: 12h00 – 19 August 2015]

Notes:
Table Mountain Weather Permitting. Cable Car ticket refundable in the event of bad weather. Please note: There will be no stops in the city for the express tour.

Tour is subject to availability at time of booking.

Rate Includes

Fully Guided Tour in luxury air-conditioned vehicle, Table Mountain Cable Car fees.

TOUR DESCRIPTION:

Bus transfer to Table Mountain, from where we will board the famous rotating Table Mountain Cableway to reach the summit of Cape Town’s landmark. The mountain is sculpted from sandstone and it rises 1086 meters above the bay. Its flat summit measures nearly 3km from end to end. It is home to approximately 1470 species of plants. The exhilarating ascent of Cape Town's Table Mountain is a must for any visitor and provides breathtaking views over the city and its beaches. From here we depart on a city tour where we will get to drive through and explore the following areas:

The Company Garden’s: The Company's Garden is a green jewel in the heart of a vibrant, bustling metropolis that is the remaining half of a fresh produce garden planted in the 1650s by the region's first European settlers.

Bo Kaap: The name Bo-Kaap translates into "Above Cape". The area was previously called the “Malay Quarter” and used to house the many slaves brought in, mainly from Java, in the 17th and 18th Centuries.

Green Market Square: One of Cape Town’s oldest markets, set on a cobbled square where Capetonians have been buying their clothing, jewellery and crafts for years, and where there is an exciting buzz as well as evidence of the city’s most colourful and eccentric characters.

We continue to the Waterfront, where guests have time at leisure to rest or explore the many shops, attractions, restaurants and bars within the vibrant Waterfront area or alternatively a transfer back to the Convention Centre.

Table Mountain City Tour


2.  Invitation to Langa Township

Price : R 715,00 per person
Meeting Point : 08:45 - Alongside the Convention Centre in Walter Sisulu Avenue

Code: LT05
Date: 19 August 2015
Time: 09:00 – 12:30
[Cut-Off-Day: 12h00 – 18 August 2015]

Code: LT06
Date: 20 August 2015
Time: 09:00 – 12:30
[Cut-Off-Day: 12h00 – 19 August 2015]

Notes: Depending on numbers we may need to rotate the activities. Tour is subject to availability at time of booking

Rate includes: Fully Guided Tour in luxury air-conditioned vehicle, Township Donations & High Tea.

TOUR DESCRIPTION:

A visit to one of the many townships surrounding the city is an experience that will open your eyes to the way in which the biggest portion of Cape Town's population is living. This tour is completely interactive and encompasses the history of the lives and development of the disadvantaged communities in Cape Town. During an informative tour, participants will learn more about the history of the informal settlements and the challenges their inhabitants are faced with on a daily basis. You have the opportunity to interact and exchange cultural values with the local Langa community (the oldest formal township) and be welcomed in the traditional African manner.

We start at the historic street Harlem Avenue, where we are welcomed with some refreshments, meet the family and will learn about the background of the township. The group will split into 4 and embark on a walking tour of the neighbourhood. During this insightful visit, we visit St. Francis, a catholic community centre, education centre and school. You will then be taken to Langas’ sport fields where you will learn all about the most popular sports in the townships and famous sports legends.

There will be an opportunity to talk to the locals and get to tell them about your favourite sports. We continue to Guga S’thebe, a very interesting art & culture centre, where we enjoy a live local performances and will get to know popular musicians and film artists and can get involved in workshops and community projects. Participants are encouraged to bring a small donation of stationary or educational toys, which they will be able to handover during their visit to local crèches.

We come together again at the family owned Mzansi restaurant where they enjoy a Township “High Tea” and will be entertained by a live Marimba or Jazz band, which will ensure that you will love the vibrancy of Cape Towns’ Townships. Spouses will have the opportunity to play Marimbas and learn to dance the “Pata Pata”.

We return to the Convention Centre.

Langa Township


3. Robben Island Tour

Price: R 540,00 per person
Meeting Point: 08:00 - Alongside the Convention Centre in Walter Sisulu Avenue

Code: RIT07
Date: 19 August 2015
Tine : 08:15 -12:30
[Cut-Off-Day: 12h00 – 18 August 2015]

Code: RIT08
Date: 20 August 2015
Time: 08:15 -12:30
[Cut-Off-Day: 12h00 – 19 August 2015]

Note: The Robben Island boat is scheduled to return by 12.30, however please be prepared for a later departure as weather and ocean conditions affect the timings.

Tour is subject to availability at time of booking

Rate includes: Fully Guided Tour, transfers to Robben Island Gateway, Robben Island Standard Tour, which includes boat trip to Robben Island.

TOUR DESCRIPTION:

We meet and transfer to the waterfront for a historical trip to Robben Island. Robben Island is internationally known for the fact that Nobel Laureate and former President of South Africa Nelson Mandela was imprisoned on Robben Island for 18 of the 27 years he served behind bars before the fall of apartheid.

On arrival at Robben Island, guests embark on a fully guided tour to South Africa’s famous World Heritage Site where you’ll not only walk in the footsteps of Nelson Mandela, but also tour the island’s rich fauna and flora treasures, visit the lime quarry and see the village where former warders lived. For nearly 400 years, Robben Island, 12 kilometres from Cape Town, was a place of banishment, exile, isolation and imprisonment. It was here that rulers sent those they regarded as political troublemakers, social outcasts and the unwanted of society.

Transfer back to the Convention Centre after the tour.

Robben Island Tour


4. Cape Point Tour

Price: R 525,00 per person
Meeting Point: 08:45 - Alongside the Convention Centre in Walter Sisulu Avenue

Code: CP09
Date: 19 August 2015
Time: 09:00 – 13:30
[Cut-Off-Day: 12h00 – 18 August 2015]

Code: CP10
Date: 20 August 2015
Time : 09:00 – 13:30
[Cut-Off-Day: 12h00 – 19 August 2015]

Rate includes: Fully Guided Tour, transfers in luxury air-conditioned vehicle, entrance fees.

Notes: Tour is subject to availability at time of booking

TOUR DESCRIPTION:

Depart for Cape Point along the Atlantic Seaboard and the prestigious suburbs of Clifton and Camps Bay, with their beautiful beaches. The tour continues over the scenic Chapman’s Peak Drive and onto Cape Point, where traditionally two marine ecosystems are said to meet. Walk or take the "Funicular" up to Cape Point. You can feel the extent of fury of the wild ocean beneath you as the sharp point of the Peninsula rises majestically out of the tumultuous crashing waves with its lighthouse perched above. Depart for Boulder’s Beach, which is a beach that adjoins a sanctuary for the African Penguin living freely between the high rocks. We stop here – an excellent opportunity to take pictures before enjoying a delicious fish lunch at Harbour House Restaurant located on the edge of the ocean in the quaint village of Kalk Bay.

After lunch at leisure to enjoy shopping in Kalk Bay. Arts, crafts, antiques, books, beadwork, ceramics, jewellery, fabrics and everything from street side stalls for gifts and souvenirs can be found in these unique, arty and bohemian shops along the main street.

We return via the scenic Boyes Drive, the upmarket leafy suburbs of Constantia and Bishops Court, past the University of Cape Town and the famous Groote Schuur Hospital to the hotel.

Cape Town Tour


5. Table Mountain City and Constantia Winelands

Price : R 570,00 per person Meeting Point : 08:45 - Alongside the Convention Centre in Walter Sisulu Avenue

Code: TMW11
Date: 19 August 2015
Time: 08:30 – 13:30
[Cut-Off-Day: 12h00 – 18 August 2015]

Code: TMW12
Date: 20 August 2015
Time: 08:30 – 13:30
[Cut-Off-Day: 12h00 – 19 August 2015]

Notes: Table Mountain Weather Permitting. Cable Car ticket refundable in the event of bad weather.

Tour is subject to availability at time of booking

Rate includes: Fully Guided Tour, transfers in luxury air-conditioned vehicle, Table Mountain Cable car Fees, Wine Tasting at Groot Constantia

TOUR DESCRIPTION:

We depart to Table Mountain, from where we will board the famous rotating Table Mountain Cableway to reach the summit of Cape Town’s landmark. The mountain is sculpted from sandstone and it rises 1086 meters above the bay. Its flat summit measures nearly 3km from end to end. It is home to approximately 1470 species of plants. The exhilarating ascent of Cape Town's Table Mountain is a must for any visitor and provides breathtaking views over the city and its beaches. From here we depart on a city tour where we will get to drive through and explore the following areas:

The Company Garden’s: The Company's Garden is a green jewel in the heart of a vibrant, bustling metropolis that is the remaining half of a fresh produce garden planted in the 1650s by the region's first European settlers.

Bo Kaap: The name Bo-Kaap translates into "Above Cape". The area was previously called the “Malay Quarter” and used to house the many slaves brought in, mainly from Java, in the 17th and 18th Centuries.

Green Market Square: You cannot visit Cape Town and not visit one of its oldest markets, set on a cobbled square between Short and long Market Streets. This is where Capetonians have been buying their clothing, jewellery and crafts for years, and, whilst the face of the market may have changed a little - African curios now predominate - there is still an exciting buzz as well as evidence of the city’s most colourful and eccentric characters.

We continue to the Groot Constantia Wine Estate, the oldest Estate in South Africa where we enjoy a walk through the Estate followed by a tasting on the Estates Wines.

We return to the convention Centre after the Tour.

Table Mountain City and Constantia Winelands


 

Last update: 10 March 2015