Social programme for accompanying persons

Dorly Viollier will be your tour guide for all these tours.

Accompanying persons tour 1

Monday, 1 February 2010: CITY TOUR
This morning's tour is designed to orientate you geographically and culturally, showing you Cape Town, our "Mother City'', from its historical beginnings to the dazzling and colourful world of today.

Cost: R240, lunch not included.

Accompanying persons tour 2a

(alternative to tour 2b)
Monday, 1 February 2010: TABLE MOUNTAIN (weather permitting)
Undoubtedly one of the world's most beautiful natural wonders, the layered "sandcake'' of this longest "table'' in the world is 300 million years old, 3 km long and 1086 m high. A ride to the top of Table Mountain on the new panoramic cable car, the same as on Mount Titlis in Engelberg (Switzerland),

offers you spectacular views of Cape Town and the Peninsula.

Cost: R233

Accompanying persons tour 2b

(alternative to tour 2a)
Monday, 1 February 2010: KIRSTENBOSCH NATIONAL BOTANICAL GARDEN

Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden is one of the best sites on offer in the whole of South Africa. With approximately 6500 different species, 95% endemic, it is a must for every nature and flower lover. Its setting at the foot of Table Mountain is breathtaking.

Cost: R225

Welcome cocktail party

Monday, 1 February 2010:
Join the conference participants for the welcome cocktail party
Cost: R0

Accompanying persons tour 3

Tuesday, 2 February 2010: WINELANDS AND WINE TASTING TOUR The Cape Winelands are world-renowned for their beauty and their wines. South Africa figures 9th in the world for the production of wine. Whilst admiring the magnificent scenery, you will taste some of the Cape's best wines on some of the most romantic wine farms with their unique Cape Dutch manor houses. The morning will take us to "Vergelegen'', second oldest wine estate, founded in 1699. Stroll through the magnificent garden with the 300 years old Camphor trees and enjoy the wine tasting. Then we will visit the picturesque wine and student town of Stellenbosch, founded in 1679, possibly to see the village museum or just to breathe in the very special atmosphere of this quaint little town. The bus will then take us (weather permitting) to "Delaire'', one of the oldest wine estates, where you will enjoy a very stylish lunch. After the meal we will continue our drive to the little town of Franschhoek, birthplace of SA's wine industry and home to the French Huguenots since their arrival as refugees in 1688. The day will end with a little time off for shopping or sightseeing before we head off home to Cape Town and the Breakwater Lodge via a scenic and spectacular route.

Cost: R450, lunch not included.

Conference excursion

Wednesday, 3 February 2010: PENINSULA TOUR
Join the conference participants on the conference excursion

Accompanying persons tour 4

Thursday, 4 February 2010: ROBBEN ISLAND
We will leave the Breakwater Lodge at 8:15 and walk to the jetty of the new Robben Island ferry. The boat leaves at 9:00 and you will enjoy the ride which will give you a stunning and unique view of the

"Mother City" with its Table Mountain backdrop.

The history of this 474-ha island goes back thousands of years. In centuries past it was used as a pantry and source of raw materials by seafarers and colonists and as a whaling station, hospital, mental asylum and military base. But Robben Island is best known as a place of banishment. The most famous prisoner who spent 19 of the total 27 years of his incarceration here was Nelson Mandela, South Africa's previous State President.

A former inmate will take you on the one and a half hour tour through the prison and around the island with its beautiful flora and fauna. The last prisoners left the island in 1996, and since then Robben Island has become a museum which symbolises the struggle to overthrow apartheid.

Cost: R255, lunch not included.

Accompanying persons tour 5

Thursday, 4 February 2010: AFTERNOON AT THE WATERFRONT AND AQUARIUM

For many centuries the immense sweep of Table Bay served as a loadstone for mariners of many nations, providing respite on the long journey from Europe around the Cape to the East. Sailors would stock up here with fresh water, provisions and livestock. Over the last 300 years, since the arrival of the Dutch, the ad-hoc construction of jetties and other buildings gave the city's waterfront a vibrant, but untidy aspect.

In the 1940's, the reclamation of huge areas of land on the foreshore pushed back the Atlantic, burying forever the sweeping beaches where the waves, in times gone by, had crashed against the walls of the Castle.

In the 1960's, however, a worldwide trend to redevelop dilapidated inner harbours caught on in Cape Town and hanged the aspect of the former unattractiveness with its ugly high-rises and raised waterways. The further attraction of the surviving Victorian architecture of the original harbour buildings spurred on the plans to return the city to the sea and in 1992 much of the work of the Victoria and Alfred Waterfront was completed.
Today the Waterfront is South Africa's number one tourist attraction, with shops, boutiques, cinemas, theatres, hotels, restaurants and cruise boats where one can enjoy a unique setting.

Cost: R180

Accompanying persons tour 6

Friday, 5 February 2010: AFRICAN TOWNSHIPS

Discover the warmth and the culture of the people of the Western Cape townships. Understand the history of the struggle and the current developments. Have a chance to discuss ideas and cultures, and be informed of the business structures, organisations, educational situation and developments of the Western Cape townships and visit successful projects. The townships which you will visit are Langa, Gugulethu, Nyanga and Khayelitsha, third biggest township in South Africa.

Cost: R300

Accompanying persons tour 7

CAPE PENINSULA BY HELICOPTER

Follow the Atlantic route from the majestic Twelve Apostles, the white sands of Clifton, over Llandudno to the scenically stunning Hout Bay and beyond to the remote Scarborough set in a heathy wilderness. Fly over the Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve, abundant in fynbos and watch for the antelope and the Cape zebra. See the massive cliffs of the Cape Point's headland and search for whales. Fly over the naval bay of Simonstown, over Fish Hoek and Muizenberg, the lush Constantia valley and return to the Victoria and Alfred Waterfront with a low level flight over Table Mountain and the City Bowl where your complimentary glass of sparkling wine awaits you.

Conference banquet

Friday, 5 February 2010: DINNER AT CATHARINA’S ON STEENBERG ESTATE, CONSTANTIA

Join the conference participants for the conference banquet.