Experience the spectacular city of Cape Town and spend time with a local school sharing musical and sporting experiences as well as helping out on a community project.
The students will also have the opportunity to view the panorama of Cape Town from the rotating cable car, explore Table Mountain and Robben Island with its penguins and notorious prison.
Destination: Cape Town
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Please be advised that this is an ‘example’ of a schedule and that the activities may be variable dependent upon dates, weather, special requests and other factors. Itineraries will be confirmed prior to travel.
The projects are determined closer to your actual tour date.
Day 1
Arrive in Cape Town. On arrival at Cape Town Airport, you will be met by your Tour Director and transferred to your group hotel where you will spend the next 10 nights. The rest of the day is free to relax. This evening you will meet your guides and discuss the trip before dinner.
Overnight in Cape Town
Day 2
Today you will meet your Tour Director and the driver for a full day of exploring Cape Peninsula and Seal Island. You will drive to Signal Hill for a bird’s eye view of the Atlantic Seaboard. From here you will descend into Camps Bay alongside the Twelve Apostles Mountain Range before reaching the historic Hout Bay Harbour. From here you enjoy a guided hike to the old lighthouse at Cape Point which stands head and shoulders above everything else. You may be lucky enough to spot zebra, eland, baboons and ostriches, a few of the species in the protected reserve. Return to the vehicles and drive to the harbour where you will take a boat to Seal island to watch these magnificent creatures in the water. Once back on shore you will drive back to Cape Town along the eastern side of the peninsula visiting the African Penguin colony at Boulders Beach for a close-up view of the Jackass penguin en route.
Overnight in Cape Town.
Day 3 – 7
Today you will start your community project work. Since projects are determined closer to your actual tour date, here is a glimpse at what a typical day might look like:
Experience the real, un-cut Cape Town as a responsible traveller and volunteer daily in the township communities surrounding the city.
Work with children or with elderly people. Choose to entertain kids in a hospital where they need it the most or you can assist them doing their homework. Or you can choose to work in a special needs care centre.
Choose a conservation project at one of the few nature reserves that are in and around Cape Town.
Overnight in Cape Town
Day 8
Today after breakfast you will climb the iconic Table Top Mountain. Together with your guide, you embark on a spectacular guided walk to the summit. Here you will be rewarded with incomparable views of the Cape Peninsula and beyond. Once you have reached the top of Table Point, you can walk around the plateau admiring the views in all directions. You will descend from Table Mountain on the cable car to get an alternate view of the mountain and Cape Town.
Overnight in Cape Town
Day 9
Today you will visit Robben Island where you will be shown around the prison by ex-inmates who are able to provide great insight into the day to day life of a Robben Island Prisoner. Having incarcerated Nelson Mandela for 19 of his 27 years in jail under apartheid, Robben Island has become a symbol of South Africa’s remarkable transformation.
In the afternoon you will be driven around the various townships in Cape Town to get an insight into the life of people here.
Overnight hotel Cape Town.
Day 10
This morning you will visit The District Six Museum. It was established in December 1994 and displays the memories of the District Six experience. After spending time at the museum you will have the opportunity to go to a market where you will be able to do some last minute shopping before returning to your hotel for your final night in Cape Town
Overnight in Cape Town
Day 11
You will be transferred to the airport for your flight back home
