Full-Day Cape Town Highlights Tour
Description
Enjoy a full-day guided tour exploring the rich geological history and story of the Mother City and the Cape Peninsula. See the rich and fascinating rock formations and geological processes, that produced the region's Granite and the spectacular sedimentary rocks of the Table Mountain and the surrounding mountain peaks.
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08h00 - Meet at and depart from the historic Simons Town, traveling south along with the M4.
Visit the beach at Froggy Pond with its excellently exposed granite.
From there, travel on to a road cut showing heavily weathered soils produced from the granite during a period of the Cape's history when the climate was much warmer and wetter.
Head on to a high lookout point on the cliffs, overlooking a beach and section of the Peninsula where a fault has caused a substantial drop in the landscape!
Go to the Cape Point Nature Reserve and a walk down to Diaz Beach.
On the way to Diaz Beach, visit an ancient deposit of limestone dating from the Miocene and Pliocene Epochs.
Afterwards, go to the beach to view fabulous exposures of the Graafwater formation of the Table Mountain Group.
12h30 - Eat lunch at the Two Oceans Restaurant, or as organized.
13h30 - After Cape Point visit, set out on a lovely scenic drive along the Atlantic coastline through the towns of Scarborough, Misty Cliffs, Kommetjie, and Noordhoek. Along the way, have a few stops to explore specific sights of importance.
Past Noordhoek, drive along the famous Chapman's peak drive and have excellent sights of the unconformity between the igneous Cape Granites and the Sedimentary Graafwater formation of the Cape supergroup.
The tour ends at the Seapoint Promenade, visit the famous geological contact point between the Cape Granite and Malmesbury Groups that had Darwin fascinated.
17h00 - Return to Simons Town.
What's Included
Entrance fee to Cape Point Nature Reserve.
Tollgate fee for Chapmans Peak road.
Set of notes on the Cape's Geology.
Transport (1 - 4 guests: Jeep Cherokee)
Coffee & refreshments
What's Excluded
Lunch and snacks
Transport for 5 pax and more (additional transport to hire at extra cost).
Cancellation Policy
For cancellations upto 2 days before the tour -
Refund of 80% of the tour price.Price Details
The group size and price | |
1 To 3 | ZAR 3000 Per Group |
4 To 9 | ZAR 6600 Per Group |
This is a group tour |