Montagu

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Montagu

A must when visiting Montagu is a trip along Route 62 and bathing in the healing waters of the natural hot springs.

Ashton is on Route 62 and is known for its canning factory

Ashton Cans Like Nobody Can

Route 62 is the tourist route that meanders between Cape Town and Oudtshoorn, the Garden Route and Port Elizabeth, offering the shorter, scenic alternative to t...

Cape Winelands Health & Wellness spas

An area of magnificent views, panoramic landscapes, towering cliffs and crystal-clear streams, the Cape Winelands is breathtaking.

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An English fort guards the gateway of Cogman's Kloof near Montagu

Attractions in Cape Town & Western Cape

Table Mountain Cable Way

Table Mountain, the breathtaking backdrop and icon of Cape Town & the Western Cape extends its welcome to all visitors. The Cableway takes you to the summit in under 10 minutes and the cable car's rotating floor ensure that all passengers get a 360 degree aerial view of the city.
Victoria & Alfred Waterfront

The very epitome of African chic, the V&A Waterfront a unique shopping & entertainment environment, is South Africa's most visited tourist attraction with about 10 million visitors a year.
Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens

Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden is world-renowned for the beauty and diversity of the Cape flora it displays and for the magnificence of its setting against the eastern slopes of Table Mountain. Kirstenbosch grows only indigenous South African plants.
Robben Island

Robben Island, some seven kilometres off the coast of Cape Town, is where former South African President and Nobel Laureate Nelson Mandela, alongside many other political prisoners, spent decades imprisoned during the apartheid era.
Groot Constantia Wine Farm

Glorious Groot Constantia, is the oldest wine making region in the southern hemisphere and the finest surviving example of Cape Dutch architecture.
Cape Point Nature Reserve -the southwestern most tip of Africa!

Cape Point forms part of the Table Mountain National Park which stretches from Signal Hill in the north to Cape Point in the south. Nowhere else in the world does an area of such spectacular beauty and such rich bio-diversity exist almost entirely within a cosmopolitan city. Since 2004, it also forms part of the Cape Floral World Heritage Site.
The Whale Coast

Drive to the fishing village of Hawston and stop at Hermanus - the world's best land-based whale-watching spot. Hermanus is the only town in the world to boast a Whale Crier who ensures that visitors don't miss out on spotting the oceans gentle giants.
The Cape Winelands

Take a drive along the Western Cape's many wine routes and visit global award winning wine farms for a spot of wine tasting, cellar tours and an opportunity to purchase some good local, internationally recognised wines.
The Garden Route

From Mossel Bay to Plettenberg Bay, the Garden Route with its lush forests and wide meandering rivers is an adventure playground for scuba diving, golfing, surfing, snorkelling, kayaking, canoeing, rafting, biking, hiking, flying, hang-gliding, paragliding, ballooning and parachuting ... and bungee jumping!
The West Coast's wild flowers & fishing villages

The Cape West Coast dotted with fishing villages like Yzerfontein, St Helena Bay and Elandsbaai, is also renowned for its spectacular shows of spring wild flowers (July to October) where more than 8 600 species of flowers occur of which 68 percent are found nowhere else in the world.