Post breakfast this morning, you will take a leisurely drive through the Cape Winelands
We start the morning off at the Stellenbosch winelands, only 20 minutes out of Cape Town, which offers a majestic scenery that is entirely different to the Cape Peninsula. Stellenbosch is a small but very lively town with a famous university and numerous activities such as wine cellar tours and tastings, museums, galleries and strawberry picking. Take a big breath of fresh air. Feel the sun on your skin. Then, it’s time to find the perfect spot for your picnic. Where will it be – by the dam, or under the oaks? The choice is yours. Spier Picnics offer seasonal and vegetarian picnics, made with local, natural and organic produce wherever possible. Drive past Drakenstein, also known as Victor Verster Prison, is located between Franschhoek and Paarl. The prison is famous for being the one where Nelson Mandela spent the last fourteen months of his imprisonment for campaigning against Apartheid, afterwards leaving a free man in February 1990! Here you will get to see a recently unveiled, larger than life-size statue of Nelson Mandela raising his fist, not in anger, but as a well-known gesture of defiance, usually accompanied by the freedom slogan - 'amandla awethu' in isiZulu or 'power to the people' in English. We then proceed to the town of Paarl, offering you a great perspective into Afrikaans culture and tradition. The district is specially well-known for its Pearl Mountain or "Paarl Rock". The huge granite rock is formed by three rounded outcrops that make up Paarl Mountain and has been compared in majesty to Uluru (formerly known as Ayers Rock) in Australia. And end the tour with a chocolate tasting at De Villiers Chocolate located at the Spice Route Destination. This evening you are at leisure, we can recommend spending some time at the V&A Waterfront which has a wide variety of shops, entertainment, and restaurants on offer. Overnight in Cape Town