2025 South Africa, Zimbabwe & Zambia - Day #9 - Winelands

from our Rothschild Safaris Itinerary

CAPE WINELANDS TOUR

Departure time 9:00AM: Enjoy another day with your guide in the Cape Winelands. Explore the great outdoors in the Paarl region with a choice of wine estates, wondrous hikes, gentle strolls, outrides on horseback, cycling routes, fishing and more.

Lunch at The Greenhouse Babylonstoren at 1:30PM

Unfortunately, I am now getting Kevin's cold. I ended getting only about five hours and forty-five minutes of sleep; this is not enought!?! Moving slowly, I did a five minute Peloton work out in the room.

We had a very nice breakfast. In addtion to fruit, granola and yogurt, they served a frittata.

Barry picked us up at 9 am. We stopped at the Nelson Mandela Memorial outside the Victor Verster Prison. This was the third and last prison where he was held. We talked about Mandela and the course of South Africa after he was released.

Afterwards, Barry dropped us on the main street of Franschhoek. We wandered the length of the town and did some shopping. Sharon bought a table runner for the fall dinner party.

From there, we headed to Le Luce. We did a small sparkling wine tasting and then had a "light lunch." Given how much we enjoyed the dinner at Brookdale on Monday night, we decided that we wanted to eat there again, rather than go into Paarl for dinner.


The next stop was the Stony Brook Vineyards. This was a much smaller tasting room than the stops that we had made over the previous day and a half. Barry had never been there and thought that they served a Pinot Nior. They used to, but didn't anymore...


Back early to Brookdale, Kevin, Donna and I walked the grounds. I ended up walking almost two miles, including walking from the manor house to the tasting room. I was hoping that getting outside in the warmer might have a positive effect on my cold.


The five of us finished the day with a fantastic dinner at 7 pm. With a very early start time on Wednesday, Sharon and I crashed before 10 pm.