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Full Day Trip From Cape Point To Boulders Penguin Colony
  • Tour Category

    Group Tour

  • Tour Types

    Nature, Sun and Sand, Walking

  • Duration

    1 Day

  • Activity Level

    Medium

  • Language

    Afrikaans, English, French

Description

Explore Cape Point on foot, walk to the southern tip along the wild Atlantic coast, and spend time tracking ostriches. See some ever-watchful baboons and take a refreshing swim in the Indian ocean with our colony of African Penguins.

  • Explore Cape Point & Swim With Penguins! expand_more
    • Pick up at 8 am from Cape Town.

    • Drive along the most scenic route in the world, crossing the beaches of Glitzy Camps Bay, into Llandudno, Hout Bay, along with the famous Chapmans Peak, passing the Kommetjie lighthouse and arriving at the Cape Point Nature Reserve. This is a World Heritage Site and the area with the highest plant biodiversity in the world, called fynbos. 

    • Walk a small trail amidst the fynbos, alongside the cliffs over the Indian Ocean. Find some ostrich, baboons, antelope, tortoises and other animals in reserve, see some plants that the indigenous hunter-gatherers would have used only 200 years ago.

    • Continue towards the point itself, walk down to the beach with its famous shipwrecks, and meander along the path to the old lighthouse on the sea cliff. Cape Point is also known as The Cape of Storms - its huge south Atlantic swells come up from near Antarctica, bringing massive waves and gale-force winds.

    • Stop in Simonstown for lunch; it is a maritime naval town and home to the African penguin colony at Boulders Beach.

    • Short stroll to Boulders penguin colony and for those who are brave, a swim in the sea with them.

    • Return via False Bay, passing the picturesque fishing suburbs of Kalk Bay and Muizenberg, in the late afternoon.

What's Included
  • Transport

  • Pick-up and drop

  • Cape Point entrance fee

  • Animal tracking

  • Medicinal plant spotting

  • Learning natural navigation

  • Bird watching

  • Penguin colony entrance fee

  • Mask and snorkel to swim with penguins (must be shared)

What's Excluded
  • Lunch is not included in this price
What to bring
  • Bring something warm - Cape Town is known for having 4 seasons in one day. It can go from 30 degrees to 10 degrees in half an hour

  • Bring a towel if you plan to swim  and something warm to put on afterwards

Meeting Point

Cape Town, South Africa

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 4USD 100 Per Group

This is a group tour

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USD 100 / group

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