| When faced with the decision of exactly what to see | | | | some whales after your wine visit? Head to the |
| on your Cape Town holiday, why not take a Cape | | | | vineyards outside Hermanus on your tour, and take an |
| tour, which optimises sightseeing around the Western | | | | afternoon stop by Walker Bay to whale watch with |
| Cape region. Why should you have to choose | | | | the locals. |
| between whale watching and wine tasting, when doing | | | | Organised tours also provide visitors with a safe and |
| both is an option? Tour operators often make the | | | | effective means of visiting Cape Town's township |
| world of sightseeing infinitely easier for visitors by | | | | areas. These locations, some of the most dynamic |
| providing safe transport, a knowledgeable guide, and a | | | | and vibrant areas of Cape Town, are some of the |
| broad itinerary that hits the top sites across the | | | | hardest places to visit as an independent traveller due |
| western cape. | | | | to safety concerns, and the sheer logistics of knowing |
| The South African wine industry has literally hundreds | | | | where to visit and who to talk to. Tour operators |
| of vineyards ranging from small to large across the | | | | handle all of this for you, making a township tour a |
| country. Luckily for Cape Town visitors, most of them | | | | great addition to any Cape Town holiday. Often, |
| sit within a 45-minute drive of the city centre, in the | | | | tourists end up seeing some shining examples of the |
| wine towns of Stellenbosch and Franschhoek. In order | | | | "new South Africa" come to life through the |
| to see as many different vineyards as possible, take | | | | entrepreneurial spirit of even the most disadvantaged |
| an organised tour through the wine country-the tour | | | | township dwellers. Mzoli's Meats, one of the Gugulethu |
| operators have years' of experience in this region, and | | | | township's greatest restaurants and success stories, |
| know exactly which vineyards to visit to show | | | | was started by a local "Gugs" resident. |
| travellers the best of the wine region. Looking to see | | | | |