Wine Flies Wine Tours (https://www.capetown.travel/listing/wine-lord-tour-with-wine-flies/) have a number of truly unique Cape Town tours on offer in the city. Their Wine Lord Private Tours pair you up with an expert guide who can customise your itinerary. Your guide will take you to all the hidden gems and share his in-depth knowledge with you. Private tours also include a pick-up and drop-off in a private air-conditioned vehicle. They also offer scheduled day tours of the Winelands, which take in the popular iconic estates as well as secret family-run boutique estates. If you’re feeling fancy, there’s also the Dragon Flies tour by helicopter.
Website: wineflies.co.za (https://www.capetown.travel/listing/wine-lord-tour-with-wine-flies/)
Gerald, or Pepe as he’s often called, is a warm, homely, and gentle man with a real knack for storytelling. He offers a 2.5 hour cheese-making tour, where you’ll find yourself surprisingly moved by his tales of growing up in rural France. Meet the adorable goats, see the ethical milking process, and fall in love with Pepe Charlot cheese and its incredible story. The tour is available through Airbnb. Be sure to check out their other experiences while you’re there; they offer a whole bunch of fantastic, unique, locally run tours.
Website: airbnb.com/experiences/62359
ABCD Concepts is run by local Khayelitsha (https://www.capetown.travel/travel-like-a-local-your-neighbourhood-guide-to-khayelitsha/) entrepreneurs Ayanda and Buntu. They offer a number of experiences, including a 9km morning running tour for those who like their sightseeing with a dash of fitness. They also do nightlife tours, where you join them for a night out kasi-style.
Website: abcd-concepts.co.za (https://www.abcd-concepts.co.za/)
Discover Cape Town’s only township wine farm in Philippi on this incredible package tour taking in both Philippi and Khayelitsha. The tour includes a tour of the vineyard and a tasting of the wines made there. Afterwards, head to Khayelitsha for a five-course meal paired with local wines. Enquire by email at graham@townshipwinery.com.
Website: townshipwinery.com (https://townshipwinery.com/)
The Story of The Township Winery (https://vimeo.com/174669849) from Township Winery (https://vimeo.com/user54369406) on Vimeo.
The Bo-Kaap Cooking Tour (https://www.capetown.travel/the-bo-kaap-cooking-tour/) is a great way to really get to know this historic area. The tour starts at a local spice shop, where you’ll pick up supplies for the meal. Then, your host Zainie will take you on a short walk and explain the history of the area. From there, it’s back to her bright blue Bo-Kaap home to learn to make some traditional Cape Malay Cuisine.
Website: bokaapcookingtour.co.za (https://www.bokaapcookingtour.co.za/)
Kiff Kombi Tours (https://www.capetown.travel/listing/kiff-kombi-tours/) is an urban safari where you’ll make new friends, listen to your favourite tunes, and enjoy some drinks (or many) while taking in everything Cape Town has to offer. They have many Cape Town tours on offer. The Urban Safari takes in top attractions, and includes a lunch, beer tastings, wine tastings, and a sundowner at a secret spot. The Road Trip is your chance to see the penguins at Boulders Beach as well as Cape Point. The Gin Jol includes three gin distillery visits/tours and tastings, as well as an end-of-tour drink at Cape Town’s legendary Secret Gin Bar. Check their website for their other offerings.
Website: kiffkombitours.co.za (https://www.kiffkombitours.co.za/)
Experience an audio tour like no other at Groot Constantia (https://www.capetown.travel/listing/groot-constantia/). There are three options, all of which are free to download. The tours are hosted on the VoiceMap app, which uses your GPS location to play the audio automatically. You can just press play, and the app will tell you where to go and play fascinating stories of the history, wines, and people that make Groot Constantia what it is.
Website: voicemap.me (https://voicemap.me/authors/groot-constantia)
Cape Town Tourism is the Official Destination Marketing Organisation for the City of Cape Town.
Cape Town Tourism
We firmly believe that the internet should be available and accessible to anyone, and are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of circumstance and ability.
To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.
This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.
Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML, adapts Its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.
If you’ve found a malfunction or have ideas for improvement, we’ll be happy to hear from you. You can reach out to the website’s operators by using the following email
Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Screen-reader optimization: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others. Additionally, the background process scans all the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.
These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers).
Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs. There may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to