Sunday rhythms in Masiphumelele
This month AWOL Tours welcomed a family from Ontario on the Fair Trade accredited AWOL Township bicycle tour. Serge and Nicole wanted to introduce their seven year old son Noah to new cultures and another way of Cape Town living.
Pedalling for Pinotage
On a recent cycling tour through the hills of the green and lush Constantia Valley, I ended up rolling into Groot Constantia the oldest wine estate in South Africa. Overlooking False Bay, smelling the fresh sea breeze, sipping a homegrown
Sickle cycles in the city
Mark Sickle grew up surfing the two oceans of Cape Town’s peninsula, from Sea Point to Muizenberg to Milnerton, he’s a local everywhere; and when the waves were flat he and his friends explored the Table Mountain paths, swimming in
AWOL launches *NEW* Constantia Cycling Tour
AWOL Tours has just launched an exciting cycling tour in South Africa’s oldest and most established wine region: Constantia Valley. This sophisticated suburb, located only 20 minutes from Cape Town’s city center, hosts some of the best terroir in the
Cycling to the Point
On my recent return to Cape Town from Germany, I decided that it was time for wheeling around the Cape to keep up with the crazy-for-cycling AWOL Team. As bicycles are allowed on metro rail (#bikes on board) my friend
Anna our cycling ballerina
Anna our latest intern from Germany has a unique cycling background which bode well for her placement with AWOL Tours. She recently joined the Cape Town office based at the V&A Waterfront for two months and had a chance to
Sampling sourfigs on city cycle tour
On our City Cycle Tour through Cape Town, we combine the old and the new of Cape Town’s urban landscape, with visits to the Bo-Kaap, Company Gardens through Adderley Street to Green Point and get to sample indigenous fruit –
Chasing spring flowers
Four girls in a small car headed west for the annual west coast spring flowers, admittedly we were a little early for the flowers in Darling but a weekend of predicted Cape Town storms made this the perfect moment to
A walk in the park
In Cape Towns winter months Jeremy escaped the AWOL office to explore the Olifants River Trail in Kruger National Park, led by our two brilliant nature guides and experienced the bush in the most profound and inspiring way. For four