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We do the introductions, kit up and get our bikes, then leave Big Bay via Blouberg beach looking at the view of Table Mountain all the way into Cape Town City, from where we will travel all around the Cape Peninsula looking at all the beautiful Cape Town City points of interest. We start at the V&A waterfront, then on to the beaches of Seapoint, Bantry Bay, Clifton, drive up Signal Hill, then back down to Camps Bay, Oudekraal, Llandudno, and into Hout Bay for lunch.

Then we do the spectacular Chapmans Peak drive stopping to take in the scenery along the way. On past Noordhoek and down to Kommetjie beach. Then through to Scarborough and down to the Cape Point. Along the way you have an excellent chance of seeing baboons, penguins, seals, and many other types of birdlife and animal.

After that the route takes us past Smitswinkel, Boulders beach, Simon's Town, Glencairn, Fish Hoek and into Kalk Bay where we stop and book into our accommodation. There are a choice of Fish food restaurants with fantastic sea views that we head down to for a sundowner. An easy days riding, not a long distance but many interesting stops and views. An easy and enjoyable drive with some traffic in some areas depending on the time of day.

We head out of Cape Town City into the outlying towns and villages, passing St. James, Muizenberg as we leave, on the coast road towards Somerset West. Our direction changes in towards the mountains to a fantastic old wine farm called Vergelegen.

From here we head out along the other side of False Bay from where we were yesterday, passing the Gordons Bay harbour, Rooiels, passing into the Fynbos coastal area, (local bush which is most spectacular here) as we pass the Kogelberg Nature Reserve. Pringle Bay, Betty's Bay, Kleinmond towards the main whale watching site of Hermanus. We make a lunch stop here and explore the Harbour and local area.

After lunch it's off to Gans Bay through the town of Stanford with it's local Birkenhead Brewery. We double back along our path to get to the Akkedisberg (Lizard mountain) pass via Oukraal to Caledon. Dependent upon the group interest and experience, we could either take a set of back dirt roads or tar roads in this area.

Also depending upon accommodation, location and group size we either head into Caledon or Bot Rivier for the evening to sleep over, have dinner, unwind and relax.

Today is relatively more strenuous with varying landscapes and road terrains that change from easy tar roads to easy well maintained dirt roads, all of which go through multiple passes and beautiful natural surroundings.

We leave Bot Rivier and head up into the drier mountains on a dirt road past farms up towards Theewaterskloof dam and then up and over a pass into Franschhoek. The vegitation as you descend into the valley suddenly changes to something you'd expect to find in the French winelands. We explore the area and pop into a wine farm.

From here we head down another pass into Stellenbosch where we take in one of the many well known wine farms. Very little swallowing of wine as we have more passes to consider!  Leaving Stellenbosch we make our way out through many of the famous South African winelands, towards Tulbach, an early dutch settlers town. From there through a pass where baboons roam daily and into the Ceres fruit farms area of the Cape region (apples, peaches, apricots, pears, etc.). Up another spectacular pass called the Mitchells Pass. We then follow a wonderful road that winds though valleys between two mountain ranges for quite some way until we reach yet another pass and head up and over it on a dirt road decending into Citrusdal. We pass Leopard roaming areas and rocky mountain country to get there.

Accommodation is on one of the farms in the area, where you can feel what it was like to be settler in the Cape back in the 1700's.

Today the scenery changes again to open wheatfield plains, with long open roads and blue water seas with white sand beaches and the many small fishing villages of the Western Cape.

We head off via Piketburg, Velddrif on to St. Helena Bay. There are mosly tar roads but there are an abundance of dirt roads to choose from as well, depending on the group dynamic.

We end up at beautiful Paternoster for lunch, where the white fishermans' houses and their colourful fishing boats contrast. Here you could equally feel like you are on a Greek island! (See picture on left)

Choose from one of the excellent Fish restaurants in the area for lunch which are all virtually on the beach.  After lunch we head down to Langebaan and see the small town along a natural estuary lake. See the many kite surfers here too.

Then we drive though the West Coast National Park to the naturally preserved beach on the far side, where we are more than likely to see a multitude of birdlife and buck of various types. After relaxing on the beach, we head back into Cape Town, passing through Darling into Blouberg again. We drop off the motorbikes in Big bay and celebrate with a final sundowner at Eden on the Bay.