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Posted on: Monday, 29 June 2009
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Things to Do in The Cape Winelands

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Hot Air Ballooning

Hot Air Ballooning

You’ll be hard pressed to find a moment to put your feet up and relax in “couch potato” fash­ion if you are plan­ning to spend time in the Cape Winelands. That’s not to say you won’t be relax­ing … there are plenty of things to do that require min­imum input for max­imum return … but you cer­tainly won’t be watch­ing much television!

Start your day on a Hot Air Ballooning trip with Winelands Ballooning, which will have you float­ing cloud-wards in a musical silence across the peace of the Winelands. Your col­our­ful craft launches at sun­rise and you will be laid back to earth after an hour of hot air bal­loon­ing, where a retrieve vehicle will col­lect you and return you to a break­fast spread in Paarl, at the Grande Roche Hotel. Simply magical!

Cape Winelands

Cape Winelands

If heights are not your thing, try a sed­ate horse-drawn car­riage ride around Rhebokskloof Estate and stay for lunch after­wards or get pampered at any one of the excel­lent Spas (the Camelot Spa at Le Franschhoek is a per­sonal favour­ite) or if you prefer some­thing more act­ive but none-the-less relax­ing, try an out­ride with an optional pic­nic (for you and the horses if you like) at Spier Wine Estate.

That you should visit a wine estate and do some wine-tasting prob­ably goes without say­ing, or get to know the story of the South African wine industry by book­ing your­self on a Walking Wine Tour in the Stellenbosch Wine Region. For adren­aline junkies, head on over to Shootopia Shooting Range … begin­ners are wel­come to shoot the breeze while exper­i­enced shoot­ers are wel­come to put big holes in small targets.

Rickety Bridge Wines

Rickety Bridge Wines

There are Farmers Markets a plenty to stock up on all thing yummy, good and organic, or stop and smell the flowers at the beau­ti­ful Botanic Garden in Stellenbosch before you head off for a mem­or­able lunch­eon at another fab­ulous wine estate.

The Franschhoek Motor Museum will appeal to all motor car enthu­si­asts and although people nor­mally asso­ci­ate Franschhoek with wines, the Dieu Donné Microbrewery might make for a pleas­ant change … and if none of these sug­ges­tions quite “pop your cork”, check out more sug­ges­tions at Things to Do in the Cape Winelands.

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4 comments about Things to Do in The Cape Winelands
  1. June 30th, 2009 at 14:44
    Sally says:

    What can we do over the Christmas and New Years holiday?

    Thanks
    Sally

  2. June 30th, 2009 at 18:43
    South Africa Editor says:

    Hi Sally

    Where will you be over Christmas and New Year? We will def­in­itely be post­ing dif­fer­ent options for the hol­i­day sea­son includ­ing spe­cial offers and parties, closer to the time, but in the mean­time check out our Events sec­tion, as some events will already have been announced.

  3. July 1st, 2009 at 20:59
    Gloria says:

    Are there any walk­ing through the wine val­ley excur­sions, pop­ping into each for a meal, sleep over and wine tast­ing before ven­tur­ing off to the next one. Similar to the walk along the Wild Coast stop­ping each night at a dif­fer­ent hotel. I stress the prices for this are aimed at the South African and not over seas tour­ists. Be great if there is some­thing like this!!!!

  4. July 2nd, 2009 at 15:03
    South Africa Editor says:

    Hi Gloria

    I don't know about a spe­cific excur­sion, but I am sure that type of tour could be cus­tom made for you. I'd sug­gest you visit Cape Town Tour Operators to find a tour oper­ator oper­at­ing in the Western Cape. Given the cur­rent fin­an­cial cli­mate, I'm sure the tour oper­at­ors will be able to cus­tom­ise an excur­sion within your budget.

    If any­one else knows of a spe­cific excur­sion which would meet Gloria's require­ments, please leave a comment.

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