Best of Cape: Cape Point, Penguins & Table Mountain — Full-Day Private Tour from Cape Town

You step out of your hotel into a Cape Town morning that smells of salt and braai smoke, the city still yawning beneath Table Mountain’s flat crown. The minivan hums south along the Atlantic Seaboard, windows down, and the coastline begins to unfurl — a string of beaches, the 12 Apostles sinking into the ocean like layered steps. This is a day designed to stack the peninsula’s highlights into a single, cinematic loop: Bo-Kaap’s painted row houses, the cliff-carved Chapman's Peak, the crashing point where two oceans nearly meet, a waddling colony of African penguins, and the slow cable car ascent to Table Mountain’s broad summit.