This full day tour puts the spotlight on black female winemakers and seeks to transform the way the industry looks, tastes and functions. Nomhle Zondani creator of the Wine Shaq, hosts a private tasting session of a range of black-owned and -made wines. With a focus on women, she gives insights into the challenges and victories of being black and female in the South African wine industry.

The tasting is followed by a traditional shisa nyama spread served with the wine guests have been tasting. This all happens at Nomhle's family home in Langa. Then we visit two estates in the Winelands, where the winemakers are black or the estates are black owned.

Price: R2 540 per person (minimum 8 guests)

Tour includes: All tastings, meals, mineral water, private guide. (English speaking) and private vehicle.

This full day programme is dedicated to showcasing contemporary Urban Africa in Cape Town, with a touch of the enabling possibilities of some interesting South African tech.

The day begins with signing up to Ubu, South Africa's digital currency. Each new sign up receives 500 Ubus to spend, which will offer insight into a whole new economy.

We will meet fashion designers, explore street art with a local artist, enjoy a home cooked meal in the home of a local jazz artist, meet a fine artist in studio, and experience powerful local theater. It's an enriching day of creative explorations that will leave guests with a nuanced sense of Cape Town’s contemporary creative output, and it's strong future-forward African sense of self.

Price: R3 330 per person (minimum 8 guests)

Tour includes: Private guide and transport, mineral water, lunch with beer and juice, all hosting fees.

People interested in healthy living, coastal living, self sufficiency or in the Slow Food movement will love this experience, but it is for everyone who wants to have a delicious experience in the beautiful outdoors.

The tour will introduce you to some of our local edible seaweed, you will explore the magical world of rock pools, meet like-minded people, learn how to sustainably harvest and prepare macro-algae and shellfish, make various recipes together that will end in a feast.

Price: R2 700 per person (minimum of 8 guests)

Tour includes: Private guide and vehicle, foraging workshop fee, wild food, snacks and drinks, three-course lunch harvested and, prepared by the group, information notes and recipes.

This tour takes guests on a journey through iconic Cape Town, including the Bo-Kaap and Table Mountain, where we will delve into indigenous narratives of our ancient past. A visit to Khayelitsha will take us back to the future, as we explore its rapidly-growing culinary and cultural offerings, which is making it one of the economic centres of the city.

We begin in the historic centre, and move our way out, following the city's history and expansion. In the Company's Garden a poet and storyteller of indigenous origin introduces us to Khoekhoegowab, one of the oldest languages of the region, and uses song and story to engage guests with the early Cape Town, pre-colonization. Then up Table Mountain, followed by visits to the District Six Museum, exploring forced removals; and finally for the historic centre, Bokaap, for Cape Malay snacks and slave era history in this fascinating neighbourhood.

For the final part of the day we head to Khayelitsha, one of the newest hubs in the city (Khayelitsha means 'new home'). Although Khayelitsha is called a township, and contains many elements of township, it is also a hotbed of ideas and youthful innovation. It has a growing culinary scene, active entrepreneurial networks and is one of Airbnb Experiences fastest growing zones. We will enjoy a delicious late lunch at Ciki's Eatery in Village 2, a home restaurant founded and run by Ciki and her sister, where Ciki will share her story. We follow lunch with a walk around the Khayelitsha to get a perspective on the fastest growing suburb in South Africa and an emerging central node in Cape Town. 

Price: R2 520 per person (minimum of 8 guests)

Tour includes: Private guide and vehicle, mineral water, traditional isiXhosa local lunch, Cape Malay snacks, soft drinks at lunch, Table Mountain cableway tickets, specialist indigenous host in the city.

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