These are things where you DO stuff, not just look. Activity things: extreme sports, hiking/walking, theme parks, diving, boat trips, cycling, flying and more. Either contact the places directly or find a Tour Operator to take you.
The extreme sports obviously require you to be medically fit and capable, so please check their requirements before embarking on your adventure. If you decide to go hiking, make sure you get someone who knows the route to go with you.
Otherwise, enjoy!
Land
- On Foot : hike, abseil, kloofing, etc
- Off Road and Tar : with engines (quadbikes, 4×4, motorbikes, trikes, Segway)
- Zipline, Bungy : swing like Tarzan
Sky
- Microlight, Fixed Wing flights : when you want an engine
- Paragliding : when you want the parachute open when you jump
- Skydiving : for the brave
- Hot Air Balloon : quiet and graceful
- Helicopter flights : just so exciting!
Water
- It’s coming… working on these
Echo Valley hiking trail above Kalk Bay, view towards Cape Point
Rock climbing, hiking, abseiling, kloofing (canyoneering/rappelling):
- Venture Forth : hiking on Table Mountain
- Downhill Adventures : abseiling from Table Mountain or hiking
- Nuy River Gorge : Simonskloof, 2.5h out of Cape Town 50km past Montague on Route 62
Zipline, bungy:
- Ceres Zipline :1.5h from Cape Town in Ceres, for the longest zip slide experience in Africa
- Face Adrenalin : ok, a fair distance from Cape Town, but since there is nowhere in Cape Town itself and if you’re wanting to bungy…
- Downhill Adventures : since the bungy jumping is more than a day trip, they have a tour dedicated to doing bungy for those who are based in Cape Town
Quadbiking in the Elgin Valley
Quadbiking, Off-road Motorcycling, Trikes, Segway
- Nature Discovery : quad trails designed together with Cape Nature Conservation. Also motorcycle and Segway trips. The Kogelberg is in the Elgin Valley, 70km from Cape Town en route to Hermanus.
- Tradouw Quads : in the beautiful Tradouw Valley between Montagu and Barrydale on Route 62
- Kamazoo Quad : less than ½ an hour from Cape Town in Somerset West, or in Grabouw, about 1 hour from Cape Town
- Cape Trike Tours : guided day tours on a trike – winelands, Hermanus, sunset tour for romantics…
4 x 4 Tours
- Cape Extreme : exclusive 4×4 day trips that are taken in reliable, luxurious and purpose built vehicles
- Chelsea Morning : your journey starts where the tarmac ends …
- 4×4 Adventure Tours : experience a taste of the true African spirit. Day trips from Cape Town
- Long Way Adventures : love the outdoors, love Africa and love the smell of food cooked on an open fire, you have come to the right place
Microlights & Fixed Wing flights
- Aero Sport : from Fisantekraal Airfield just outside Cape Town. A flying school that also does scenic flights in microlights and fixed wing aeroplanes.
- Wings over Africa : another flying school, also does scenic flights using microlights or fixed wing aeroplanes.
- Aquila Microlight : from Wintervogel private airfield near Malmesbury, just outside Cape Town on the West Coast
Paragliding
- Paraglide South Africa : various options in and around Cape Town
- Parapax : tandem paragliding flights around Cape Town
- Para-Taxi : tandem paraglide from any of the launch sites located around Cape Town and the Western Cape
Skydiving
- Sky Dive Cape Town : about 40km out of Cape Town on the West Coast, near Atlantis
- Sky Dive Robertson : from the Robertson airfield in the Breede River valley (used to be Sky Dive Citrusdal)
- African Skies Skydiving : pick from either Cape Town or the Winelands
See the world from a hot air balloon (photo by Life Ballooning)
Hot Air Ballooning
- Life Ballooning : Hot air ballooning – the launch site is near Paarl, but can vary due to wind conditions
Take a helicopter flight (photo by NAC Makana)
Helicopter Flights
- NAC Makana : Helicopter tours of Cape Town
- Civair : scenic flights around Cape Town
- Huey Helicopter : do a simulated combat flight around Cape Town in a Huey!
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