The 10 Best Hidden Gems Things to do in Cape Town Central, Western Cape

Wine Desk is a wine tourism consultancy operating in Cape Town since 2002. We offer a broad spectrum of tours from small group, scheduled day tours, to tailor-made, personalised private tours. Tours are recommended based on each individual's personal interests and preferences. All our guides are cultural and wine specialist guides making your experience an amazing day out with us.

Ride Down South offers guided motorcycle tours of Cape Town, the Western Cape and Southern Africa. Our tours include single-day trips around the Cape peninsula and multi-day adventures into the Cederberg, Karoo, Cape Fold mountains, Garden Route, Wild Coast, Kruger Park and around Southern Africa. We use qualified, local guides and operate our own fleet of Honda Africa Twin 750cc motorcycles.

Uthando (Love) South Africa is an internationally award winning and unique Non Profit Organisation and Fair Trade certified company. Uthando raises funds and other forms of assistance for a broad range of inspiring and innovative community development projects in South Africa. Uthando runs tours as daily scheduled tours AND tailormade private tours (for groups of any size). We take visitors into the townships (impoverished areas created during Apartheid on the outskirts of Cape Town) to visit incredible community development projects. We shine a light on the remarkable people and projects that are helping to build the new South Africa at grass roots level. On our tours we tell the remarkable story and history of South Africa and its brutal past, we discuss pertinent issues confronting our people, and provide an inspiring sense of hope through the efforts of dedicated grass roots leaders. Our tours are authentic, meaningful, non-invasive, respectful and very importantly beneficial to the communities being visited. The cost of our tours incorporate contributions to the projects that we visit and can thus also be considered philanthropic in nature. UTHANDO IS FAR MORE THAN JUST A NON PROFIT COMPANY, IT IS A LABOUR OF LOVE DEDICATED TO HELPING CREATE A MORE JUST AND EQUITABLE BRAVE NEW WORLD !

We specialize in eye-opening guided visits of Langa, Cape Town’s oldest township. You will learn about our culture, lifestyle, history, hopes and dreams and you will get the chance to interact with us locals along the way. The visit takes approximately 2-hours. Private tours are possible on request and can be tailored to suit your preferences. It's possible to use your own transport to get to the tour or have transport included. Safe parking is provided if you come with you own transport.

Ebike Cape Town is driven by a passion for travel and a love for the outdoors and we can't wait to share this with you. We invite you to join us on an adventure of a lifetime, discovering the most breathtaking sights in Cape Town. You will feel at one with nature as the fresh ocean breeze blows through your hair – an e-bike is an ultimate way to explore our beautiful city.

Cape Fusion Tours specializes in offering a "Taste of the Cape" - as such all of our tours offer a gourmet twist! We were the first to launch a Cape Town City Food Tour. We call it The Cape Town Eats Tour. This tour is the best way to immerse yourself into the culture of our city & our people. It introduces you to who we are - both past & present. Next plan your Cape Wine & Peninsula tour with us to gain a full TASTE OF THE CAPE

You will get to visit world famous estates. BUT even better...as you will also get to taste the wine lands in a more real way by visiting hidden farms only known to locals. Share stories with the local wine makers, drink wine directly from the barrel, endless cheese, local treats, cellar tour, vineyard walk, various wines, Stellenbosch etc. This is what we pride ourselves in. It’s a must for the traveller wanting to experience the best of everything the wine lands has to offer. Our tours are something memorable, immensely fun and mostly a real South African experience in the heart of one of world’s most renowned regions.

Baraka Gifts and Decor will take you on an inspiring journey to a dreamworld filled with an eclectic mix of arts, crafts, jewellery, decor and much more! We also sell vintage and antique items because we believe retro design is still very relevant today. At Baraka you will find a range of handmade leather notebooks and photo albums, hand crochet hats, shell and driftwood spoons, affordable jewellery, out-of-the-box art, quirky once-off pieces, unusual non-curio African goods, Panama hats, handbags, hand-woven Zulu baskets made from recycled telephone wire – and the biggest selection of scarves in Cape Town, to mention but a few. Our vision is to afford you an extraordinary shopping experience at very affordable prices. Baraka's loyal customers refer to the shop as a “treasure trove” and “the little shop with the big heart”. But you have to experience it for yourself!

Sandboarding is similar to snowboarding except its done on sand dunes. You meet me at the dunes parking area(or i can provide transport for you), we jump in my 4x4 and drive into the dunes, where we begin the sandboarding training, at your own pace we start to move up to the bigger dunes, total duration is 3 hours. I drive you in a 4x4 vehicle to the top of the dunes then you sandboard down and i pick you up and drive you to the top again. The experience is unique and a combination of trying a new activity the sandboarding, being driven off road in a 4x4 vehicle and the beautiful scenery of the Atlantis dunes and its pure white sand and Table mountain and the Atlantic ocean in the background. Booking Essential.