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WHAT WE DO - Special Interest Tours
CAPE INSIGHTS is a special interest travel company offering in-depth tours in a number of fields around the Cape, on the southern tip of Africa.
We provide a variety of niched encounters for culturally curious travellers.
SET TOURS for small groups are fully escorted, led by expert lecturers and accompanied by tour leaders, with fixed departure dates and virtually all inclusive prices.
TANGENT TOURS with flexible dates and duration, are stand-alone shorter stays for more independent travellers, with family or select parties of like-minded friends.
You can extend them or bookend a Tangent tour onto either side of a Set tour.
CUSTOMISED TRIPS are itineraries crafted around your timelines and tastes, designed for your desires. Bespoke, tailormade trips.
See for yourself why Cape Dutch architecture is unique: an eclectic mosaic of vernacular design and a fascinating blend of local ingenuity mixed with imported traditions.
Look into the lives and times of three iconic men through their legacies and bequests. Enjoy private visits to stately homes and a behind-the-scenes tour of the Houses of Parliament. Witness sustainable solutions to challenging contemporary issues.
Open a window into South Africa’s rich creative culture. Meet a hand-picked selection of trailblazers, artists whose products stretch the powers of innovation, producing forms that are both art and craft.
Participate interactively in workshops, see examples of one-of-a-kind products.
Uncover skills, some developed over generations, using local materials - others that blend whimsical creativity with practicality. Enjoy special access and private viewings.
Savour a variety of flavours in breathtaking locations on a journey among historic towns and sun drenched landscapes. Get a taste of Cape Town’s cosmopolitan essence and cultural diversity. Hear from acclaimed foodies and dedicated winemakers.
Take part in hands-on cooking sprees. Visit classic and contemporary wine estates along fifteen scenically distinct wine routes. Dine at award-winning restaurants around a city where five currrently feature in The World’s Top 100 Restaurants.
Discover how the southernmost landscape in Africa was claimed, tamed and shaped.
Roll back the centuries to unravel the past, from prehistory to present, in the country's two oldest buildings and on Robben Island.
Reconstruct the legacies of former colonisers. Track stories of people living in one spot for over 8,000 years, collated in a gem of a Winelands museum. Grasp the land's complexity through its multiple languages and major faiths.
Peel away the patina of time at landmark locations where ancient timelines and recent colonial overlays are revealed. Trace the legacy of an ancient hunter-gatherer tribe, the San Bushmen, through their evocative rock art paintings.
Explore divergent coastlines where excavations have revealed significant artefacts left by Middle and Stone Age inhabitants. Investigate the oldest known footprints yet found and a site with the greatest diversity in the world of five million year old fossils.
