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Top 3 Attractions in Cape Town & Western Cape

1. Table Mountain Cable Way
   

   Table Mountain, the breathtaking backdrop and icon of Cape Town & the Western Cape extends its welcome to all visitors. The Cableway takes you to the summit in under 10 minutes and the cable car's rotating floor ensure that all passengers get a 360 degree aerial view of the city.

   
2. Victoria & Alfred Waterfront
   

   The very epitome of African chic, the V&A Waterfront a unique shopping & entertainment environment, is South Africa's most visited tourist attraction with about 10 million visitors a year.

   
3. Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens
   

   Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden is world-renowned for the beauty and diversity of the Cape flora it displays and for the magnificence of its setting against the eastern slopes of Table Mountain. Kirstenbosch grows only indigenous South African plants.

   

Top 3 Bird Watching Spots in the Cape West Coast

1. Berg River Bird Hides - Velddrif
   

   This site on the estuary of the Berg River is an Important Bird Area and a proposed RAMSAR site. A hide is situated off Voortrekker Road, past the Riviera Hotel where the key to the hide is kept. The key is available every day at the reception of the hotel. The hide overlooks an area of intertidal mudflats and salt marshes, where more than 200 species of birds can be viewed. Birds like Blackwinged Stilts, Purple Gallinule, moorhen, flamingoes, pelicans, Caspian tern and Kingfishers can also be viewed on the farms Bloemendal (11-12km from Velddrif on the Velddrif/Hopefield Road) and Langrietvlei (±19km from Velddrif on the Velddrif/Hopefield Road). Both the farms are situated on the banks of the Berg River. Birdwatching at Swartjiesbaai, phone 022 783 3088. It is important to phone before visiting the farms.

   
2. Bird Island - Lambert’s Bay
   

   The island is linked to the shore by a breakwater connected to the harbour and is therefore easily accessible to the public. The viewing platform on the island has recently been replaced with a state of the art sunken hide, designed to blend in with the rocks of the area and situated in such a way as to allow the colony to expand. It is an important breeding site for Cape gannets and the mass of birds that congregate there, is an amazing sight. The island is also important for other marine birds such as African penguins, kelp gulls, White-breasted cormorants and Common tern. Email: bookings@capenature.co.za Web: www.capenature.co.za

   
3. Darling Bird Route
   

   The wide diversity of vegetation in the Darling area offers birders a large variety of birds from larks and pipits to lesser flamingoes and great white pelicans. The area stretches from the strandveld of the Darling Hills Rd and Groote Post to the renosterveld of Waylands and Oudepost wildflower reserves. The beauty of the flowering bulbs and the diversity of the wildflowers offer the birder a unique springtime experience. In the summer large numbers of blue cranes may be seen in the wheatfields along the Darling / Malmesbury and Moorreesburg roads. The Tienie Versfeld Reserve and the !Khwa ttu San Culture & Education Centre enable to the visitor to further enjoy the diversity of Darling.

   

Top 3 Bird Watching Spots in the Western Cape

1. West Coast National Park at Langebaan
   

   
2. Berg river estuary at Velddrif
   

   
3. Boulders Penguins at Simon s Town
   

   

Top 3 Experiences to rave about in Cape Town & the Western Cape

1. Get up close & personal with Southern Right Whales on the Cape Whale Coast
   

   Visit the villages of Cape Whale Coast and Hermanus - the best land based whale watching site in the world and get within 20 metres of a whale.

   
2. Sail up Table Mountain by Cable Car & abseil your way down
   

   Abseil Cape Town's Table Mountain, South Africa's most internationally recognisable icon but if that idea makes you break out in a sweat, then hop aboard the rotating cable way for a smooth glide up to its summit.

   
3. Scramble through the Cango Caves & go ostrich racing in Oudsthoorn
   

   The Cango Caves in Oudtshoorn with its limestone cavern roofs, exquisite calcite flowers, stalactite and stalagmites formations are more than 20 million years old.

   

Top 3 Fantastic Outdoor Festivals in Cape Town & the Western Cape

1. Taste of Cape Town
   

   A superb culinary event celebrating Cape Town's epicurean delights. Acclaimed restaurants, award-winning chefs, niche food exhibitors and premium wineries take part in this gastronomic festival held every autumn.

   
2. Riebeek Valley Olive Festival
   

   The picturesque Riebeek Valley is just the place to enjoy three days of olives, wine-tasting, art, music and...more scrumptious olives! Riebeek Kasteel not only boasts four of the top olive producers in the country, it is also home to two Italian trained olive oil graders. The festival falls on the first weekend of May every year.

   
3. Snoek & Patat Festival
   

   Goedverwacht in the Bergriver region hosts a mouthwatering weekend with all-you-can-eat deliciously prepared snoek and yummy patats (sweet potatoes). Spend a relaxing weekend filling your belly and enjoying live music, sport on big screens, stalls, book sellers, fruit picking, cooking demonstrations and kiddies entertainment. Don't miss it during the last weekend of June.