This half-day tour of Cape Town will teach you more about the Mother City and take you to places of interest including the Castle of Good Hope, Table  Mountain, the Bo-Kaap and Green Market Square.

In 1652 Jan van Riebeeck arrived in the Cape of Good Hope. He had been sent by the Dutch East India Company to establish a stopping point where ships en-route to the East could safely restock their supplies of fresh food, water and wine.  A few years later construction started on the pentagonal Castle of Good Hope,  now South Africa’s oldest surviving building and a military museum.

The beautiful city of Cape Town is set against the backdrop of Table Mountain.  Once a shelter to primitive man and beacon to sailors, this magnificent mountain has become the most visited site in Africa after the great pyramids of Egypt.

In the mountain’s shadow lies a city of cultural contrasts. A rich part of this fascinating diversity is the cobbled streets, bright buildings and beautiful mosques of Bo-Kaap, home to the Cape Malay community. This complex community is the descendents of slaves from Java, Bali, Indonesia and Malaysia.  A visit to the Bo-Kaap Museum will give you a glimpse back in time, to a typical  Malay family of the 19th century.