The 4 Best Farm Visits in South Africa

1.Skip the Line: Highgate Ostrich Farm Tour Ticket

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 110 reviews · from $11Our pick

Spend about 75 minutes at Highgate Ostrich Farm learning how ostriches live, feeding one by hand, seeing incubators and farm crafts, and watching an ostrich derby. Guides such as Samantha, Ben, and Jean are praised for lively explanations. The farm sits beneath the Swartberg Mountains.

“remove the riding from website, as it still shows on your adverts, we understand why not done anymore but then it must not be advertized”

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2.Wine Farm E-Bike Guided Tour

★★★★★★★★★★4.6 · 88 reviews · 3h 30m · from $82

Cycle from Lanzerac into the Jonkershoek Valley with an English-speaking guide, using an e-bike to handle the route with less effort. Visit two wine farms for 30 to 45 minutes each, with time for tastings and shopping. Renaldo is one guide named in the tour feedback.

“Unable to visit one of these tours preferred vineyards as fully booked. First wine tasting did not allow individual groups to choose their own wines”

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3.Franschhoek Wine Tram & Boschendal Wine Farm Experience

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 22 reviews · from $106Top rated

Spend about eight hours in the Cape Winelands, traveling from central Cape Town to Franschhoek by guided transfer and open-sided wine tram. Build your own day with hop-on stops, two included tastings, and a visit to Boschendal. Lunch, extra tastings, and purchases are at your own cost.

“Excellent way to combine the usual wine tasting with something different and fun. I'd recommend the purple route if you want to spend more time on the tram. We had an excellent guide and so were able to personalize our trip to focus on things that interested us such as the galleries and buildings.”

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4.Wine Tasting, Cape Dutch Farm and Art Day Tour from Cape Town

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 5 reviews · from $186

Travel from Cape Town in a private, air-conditioned minivan with an owner driver-guide. Visit Babylonstoren, La Motte, Franschhoek, Stellenbosch, and Muratie for gardens, wine, beer, chocolate, art, and classic cars. Lunch and tasting fees are extra.

“Brilliant tour flexible full day itinerary. If you are interested in cars or even if you are not interested in their history style and elegance the trip is different to others on offer and for the various tastings etc good value.”

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