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Durbanville Hills Havana Hills, as it name suggests, is beautifully located on a hill, just 18 km away from Cape Town.
From this vantage point, the view of Table Mountain, Robben Island and the Atlantic Ocean will leave visitors breathless. Incorporating modern state-of-the-art equipment, as well as age-old methods of oak cask ageing, Havana Hills produces wines of superb quality.
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Durbanville Hills Durbanville Wine Valley boasts hectares of flourishing vineyards, award-winning wines and amazing hospitality. It's fast becoming Cape Town’s favourite destination. Twelve wineries offer superb wines, complemented with excellent fine dining restaurants and intimate country kitchens. Farms on this route include: Altydgedacht, Bloemendal, D'Aria, De Grendel, Durbanville Hills, Hillcrest, Klein Roosboom, Meerendal, Nitída and Phizante Kraal.
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Durbanville The tale of Meerendal's wine started in 1702 in the fertile slopes of the Tygerberg Hills. Today the legend continues with visiting families and friends enjoying superb wine and food.
Meerendal’s award-winning wines are lovingly created by cellar-master Liza Goodwin. Hand-tended vineyards are planted with Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay, Pinotage, Shiraz, Merlot and Pinot Noir.
Gorgeous panoramic views over the vineyards and Boland Mountains provide the perfect backdrop for special occasions and Meerendal has become a favourite venue for weddings, launches, private functions, meetings and events.
+27 (0) 21 975 1655
Vissershok Road, Durbanville, Cape Town.
Cellar Tastings and Sales:
Tuesday to Sunday 09:00 to 18:00 (Sun until 17:00).
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Durbanville Bloemendal Wine Estate is situated in the heart of the picturesque Durbanville Wine Route, producing top quality grapes for the wine industry in the region. The estate is known for its multiple award-winning Bloemendal Sauvignon Blanc, "Suider Terras". Other notables include Cabernet Sauvignon, Shiraz, Merlot, Semillon, Natural Sweet, Chardonnay, Pinotage, and Bloemenblanc.
Bloemendal is also home to some of the best festivals and concerts in Cape Town. Festivals to diarise include Feast of the Grape in March, Oyster and Champagne Festival over Easter, Soup Sip and Bread in June, Spring Fest in September, Seasons of Sauvignon in October, and the Table Mountain Blues Summit in November.
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Durbanville Located just a short drive away from Cape Town central is Durbanville Hills, an estate that is well-known for producing some of the areas' top wines.
If you consider yourself a wine connoisseur, or you're simply looking for a place to spend your free time, come try out some wine tasting at Durbanville Hill's cellar. Their award-winning wine selection is quite extensive with a range of whites, reds and blends. Drop by The Eatery if you're keen for a bite to eat.
The beautiful estate also welcomes functions, so if you're looking for that perfect venue to host your wedding or corporate function, look no further.
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Durbanville Hills (3.1 km from Durbanville) Durbanville Wine Valley boasts hectares of flourishing vineyards, award-winning wines and amazing hospitality. It's fast becoming Cape Town’s favourite destination. Twelve wineries offer superb wines, complemented with excellent fine dining restaurants and intimate country kitchens. Farms on this route include: Altydgedacht, Bloemendal, D'Aria, De Grendel, Durbanville Hills, Hillcrest, Klein Roosboom, Meerendal, Nitída and Phizante Kraal.
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Durbanville Hills (4.3 km from Durbanville) Established in 1698, Altydgedacht Estate is a family wine farm where quality wine is crafted using a blend of modern and traditional methods.
Visitors are welcome to experience the farm under the oak trees, or inside the old barrel room. Enjoy delicious platters complemented with a selection of the estate's delicious wines.
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Tygerberg (5.5 km from Durbanville) Willowbridge Shopping Centre offers wonderful homestores and antique shops, designer stores, bookstores and music stores. It also houses the Barnyard Theatre where one get together with friends and enjoy a meal at one of the restaurants and catch a wonderful show at the same time. This open air mall is vibey, has great restaurants and an organic market every Saturday morning! Worth a visit.
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Tyger Valley (5.6 km from Durbanville) Friendship, good food, wine and brilliant entertainment – this is where it all comes together. The Mother City's first Barnyard Theatre is situated in Willowbridge Shopping Centre. This is a dinner theatre at its best, offering excellent live entertainment including rock shows, musicals, bands and revues.
The Barnyard started as a homely, rustic farm theatre in Plettenberg Bay where friends and family could be entertained and eat, drink and talk into the small hours of the morning. It proved to be such a winner that more Barnyard Theatres started popping up all over the country.
There are currently 12 Barnyard Theatres in South Africa. While each theatre is a product of its individual setting, they all retain the quaint rustic charm of the original farm theatre’s humble beginning.
To book, visit the bookings office at the theatre or call central reservations (0) 21 914 8898.
Shop F09 1st Floor, Willowbridge Life Style Centre, 39 Carl Cronje Drive, Tygervalley.
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Bellville (5.7 km from Durbanville) Tyger Valley Centre is a big regional shopping mall complete with the latest fashion, lifestyle accessories and a good entertainment area – the Tyger Valley Arena. Contained in a three-level setting, this stylish hub offers the finest restaurants and coffee shops, leisure shops, banking mall with bureau de change facilities, Ster Kinekor cinema complex and top retail stores.
Located in the expanding Tyger Valley business district, this centre is a conveniently 12-minute drive from Cape Town CBD and a stone’s throw away from some of the most scenic wine farms in the country.
Shopping with pipsqueaks is child’s play at Tyger Valley Shopping Centre with convenient baby changing facilities and designated safe play areas. Specially designed cloak rooms are available for disabled shoppers. At each entrance there is an intercom system that customers can utilise when in need of a wheelchair. Tyger Valley Shopping Centre also offers parking for disabled shoppers at all mall entrances.
With over 5 000 parking bays there is ample parking and you have the choice of either undercover parking or free parking. Trading hours are Monday to Saturday 09:00 – 19:00, Sunday 09:00 – 17:00, Public Holidays 09:00 – 19:00.
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Tyger Valley (6.5 km from Durbanville) A first for Africa. Cool Runnings is a 1.25km Toboggan Track where speed freaks can reach 40 km per hour on our downhill steel half-pipe. The automatic pulley drags your sled to the top of the hill, then woohoo, off you go. All you have to do is steer and regulate your speed with the easy hand-brake.
Tried and tested all over Europe, Cool Runnings tobogganing is safe, fun and a thrill for the whole family. All ages welcome (under eight year olds go tandem with an adult). We know grown ups use kids as an excuse to come to Cool Runnings, but no excuses are needed.
One ride and you’ll be hooked.
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Durbanville Hills (8.2 km from Durbanville) The boutique winery of Hillcrest Estate offers it's guests a variety of activities, a much-loved restaurant, delicious olives and award-winning wines.
In the tasting room visitors can sample the estate's lovely olives and wines.
Hillcrest opening times:
Monday to Sunday: 9:00 - 17:00.
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Joostenbergvlakte (8.2 km from Durbanville) Bugz Family Playpark is one of the top things to do for kids in Cape Town. If you need to entertain 2- to 10-year-old kids, march them straight here. This fun family attraction is the largest play park in the Western Cape, offering an enormous outdoor playground and a wonderful indoor play area.
The colourful variety of pedal cars, jumping castles, rowing boats, swing horses, mini-tractor rides and a choo-choo train is certain to tire out little pipsqueaks in no time. Older and more adventurous scamps can giddy up on the ponies or zoom up the tracks on quad bikes. On sunny days they can even go slip sliding down the inflatable waterslide.
Most of the rides are kid-powered – giving small folk plenty of exercise in a fun and natural way. Bugz has two large sandpits with colourful jungle gyms, slides, swings and numerous play apparatus to crawl under or climb over. There are also delightful playhouses, a tree house and even a castle, and if there are no parties in progress, kids are free to romp around here to their heart’s content. (Bugz is also a popular birthday party venue.)
Need to know? Open every day except on Christmas Day. Ticket sales close at 16:30, but rides stay open until 17:00. Token rides are only open on weekends, school holidays and public holidays. From May until mid-September, limited or no-token rides will be available. In the event of rainy weather in summer, limited or no-token rides may be available. If it happens to rain, rides will not operate for the day, but there is a great indoor section where the fun continues.
www.bugzplaypark.co.za
+27 (0) 21 988 8836
party@bugz.co.za
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Kuils River (9.3 km from Durbanville) Located on the edge of the Cape winelands, Kuils River Golf Club offers a 72 par course with beautiful features to make your golfing day a memorable one.
This a full 18-hole parkland layout with some difficult holes to keep the challenge up. The clubhouse features excellent facilities as well as a conference facility. Visitors are welcome.
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Plattekloof (9.4 km from Durbanville) A short drive from the centre of Cape Town is the 300ha Tygerberg Nature Reserve where bontebok once again roam freely after a 100 year absence.
The name “Tygerberg” is a legacy of early settlers, who mistakenly identified endemic leopards as “tijghers”.
The reserve protects the critically endangered renosterveld vegetation.
Activities include hiking trails, picnic areas, views of Cape Town, a variety of animals and bird watching.
The reserve’s Kristo Pienaar Environmental Education Centre features a resource centre, library and herbarium where geography, biodiversity and ecology lessons are offered. Booking is essential.
Open every day except Christmas Day.
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Tygerberg (11.7 km from Durbanville) Synonymous with quality, De Grendel has established themselves as a key player in the South African wine industry.
Using Feng Shui principles, the cellar is magnificently designed to blend old with new. The tasting room itself spills out onto the verandah, where you can indulge in the beautiful views of Table Mountain while enjoying a delicious glass of wine. Visitors are guided by expert tasting presenters, 7 days a week.
Tasting Hours:
Monday – Friday, 9:00 – 17:00;
Saturday, 10:00 – 16:00;
Sunday, 10:00 – 16:00.
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Stellenbosch (12.1 km from Durbanville) Good quality and value has earned Kaapzicht Estate numerous international and local awards, as well as recognition as a producer of excellent wines.
Visitors are warmly welcome to sample the wine range; there is definitely something for every taste. Cellar tours can be done upon prior arrangement. Open weekdays from 09h00 to 17h00, and Saturdays from 09h00 to 12h00.
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Parow (12.2 km from Durbanville) Forgiving 18 hole golf parkland course with many water hazards.
Look out for an abundance of bird-life due to the massive dam in the centre of the course. Peacocks, plovers (Club emblem), guinea fowl, hadidas, Egyptian geese, mallards, teal, grouse, pheasant, numerous smaller species, stork, ibis and even some pelicans abound.
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Stellenbosch (12.4 km from Durbanville) Bellevue Estate is the home of the award-winning Morkel wines and acts as the supplier of exceptional grapes to selected clients across the wine industry.
You are more than welcome to drive in for a wine tasting session. Tasting and sales are open Monday to Thursdays: 10:00 to 16:00, Fridays: 10:00 to 16:00, and Saturdays: 10:00 to 15:00.
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Western Cape (13.4 km from Durbanville) Come and enjoy the thrilling experience of real-time combat with G-Force Paintball, perfect for socials, team-building, or the paintball enthusiast.
G-Force provides players a choice of two playing fields, one an urban environment, the other bush. Team building exercises range from beginner to complex scenarios, allowing maximum leadership development and essential team participation.
Equipment is available on-site. Bookings are essential.