Cape Town & the Garden Route - Around Cape Town (PDF Chapter)

This is the Around Cape Town chapter from Lonely Planet’s Cape Town & the Garden Route guidebook.

There’s an abundance of day and overnight trips you can make from Cape Town. Northeast the magnificent mountain ranges around Stellenbosch, Franschhoek and Paarl provide ideal mi-croclimates for growing vines: this is South Africa’s premier wine region.

• explore elegant Stellenbosch, and its colonial architecture, good museums and scores of wineries
• maps
• decide which of the many excellent restaurants to eat at in the gourmet paradise of Franschhoek
• transport
• admire old Cape Dutch architecture and vineyards in Paarl, the Winelands’ largest town
• restaurants & accommodation

Coverage includes: Winelands, Stellenbosch, Franschhoek, Paarl, Tulbagh, Robertson, The Overberg, The Elgin Valley, Hermanus, Gansbaai, Stanford, West Coast, Darling, Langebaan, Paternoster.