After a pickup from your hotel, we head to the lower cable car station for a trip up Table Mountain, where we enjoy breathtaking panoramic views over the city and the Atlantic Seaboard.

Upon returning to ground level, our next stop is Bo-Kaap. This picturesque corner of Cape Town is well known for its collection of colourful houses and cobbled streets. Formerly known as the Malay Quarter, we discover how the Cape Muslim community and freed slaves influenced the culture, food, and aesthetics of the city and its people.

We then continue to the Company’s Garden, located in the heart of the central business district. Established in the early 1650s by European settlers to provide fresh fruit and vegetables for ships rounding the Cape en route to the East, the gardens now offer a natural and scenic retreat from the bustle of the city.

We stop for lunch at a local city restaurant before heading through District Six, with an optional stop at the District Six Museum. Before being torn down by the apartheid regime during the 1960s and 1970s, District Six was an impoverished but lively community of approximately 55,000 people, predominantly people of colour. The streets that remain are a stark reminder to visitors of the devastating effects of apartheid.

In the afternoon, we visit Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens. Founded in 1913 in an effort to preserve South Africa’s unique flora, the gardens encompass five of South Africa’s six different biomes and are world-renowned for the beauty and diversity of the Cape flora on display, as well as for the magnificence of their setting against the eastern slopes of Table Mountain.