Green Elephant Backpackers, observatory, Cape Town, South Africa - the Backpackers with the personal touch! Located in Observatory, cape town with online tour info, bookings, accomodation and advice on travel in South Africa

Our tours

We organise Wine Route tours, Cape Point tours, township tours, sunset yacht trips and whale eatching daytrips to Hermanus. Join Nyasha, our mountain tour guide, on a hike up Table Mountain.

• We organise trips to The Wine Route - excellent day out in the country sampling SA wines . Go with South Africa's First Big Brother winner - Ferdinand!!
• Cape Peninsula - have a great walking/cycling session in The Cape Point Nature Reserve and tour the whole Peninsula, seeing the resident penguins at The Boulders and enjoy the winding coastal route on Chapman's Peak Pass.
• Whales - day trips to Hermanus to see the Southern Right and Humpback whales close in to shore from June to November
• Township Tours - an interactive tour around the old and new townships of Cape Town and a history of their development through th apartheid years to the present day.
• Sunset yacht trips in Table Bay with the excellent backdrop of Table Mountain
• Robben Island - and a tour around the prison where Nelson Mandela was held