While some people in our tour group did "Shark Diving" our last day in Cape Town, we chose to go on a wine tour. We had wine tasting at four well established wine estates in the Cape Winelands district. It was a very pleasant drive. The tasting was fun and relaxing. The wine tour took us through the beautiful country side and enable us to enjoy more beautiful scenery outside the city.
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Scenery from the wine tour drive - View of Boland Mountain Complex
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| In KWV tasting room |
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| In the production room |
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| A communion wine barrel at Southern Paarl winery |
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| The goat tower at Fairview Wine and Cheese. There was one goat in the tower. |
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| Goats in the Fairview farm |
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| (Wine) Cathedral room |
After the wine tasting and on our way out of Cape Winelands, Belinda, our tour guide had a surprise for us. It was a stop at a national heritage site where Nelson Mandela spent 14 months of house arrest after leaving Robben Island to finish his jail sentence. It's also the place from which he took his first steps to freedom.
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| National Heritage Site |
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| The National Heritage site- Home of Mandela where he spent the house arrest. |
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The front gate to Nelson Mandela's home
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We stopped in a little quaint town in the Western Cape province called Stellenbosch for lunch. It was a good choice of a stop over. Stellenbosch, the second oldest town in South Africa, is known for its natural beauty, matured trees-lined avenues with shops, cafes and restaurants.
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View from Stellenbosch park
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| Stellenbosch Central |
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| The Rhenish Mission church in Stellenbosch |
To wrap up our visit to Cape Town, we spent some time in Kristenbosch National Botanical Gardens. It's a grand park, nestled at the eastern foot of Table Mountain. We could easily spend a full day to explore the beautifully well groomed gardens.
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