Hermanus Hotels

Hermanus, Cape Town, South Africa   Hermanus is a delightfully pretty seaside town, only an hour and half from Cape Town, which is sandwiched between the coastline of Walker Bay and a high mountain range afew kms inland. Regarded by WWF as being ...

... . It was voted #1 town in South Africa in 2008. It is also known as the whale watching capital of South Africa. While in Hermanus, we watched a couple of soccer matches in local restaurants, and mostly just walked. There is a great 12 km cliff path that ...

... that would be a bonus. We weren't disappointed. We had heard from the owner of the guesthouse we were staying at in Hermanus that there were still some whales and their calves in a place called Die Kelders a few miles down the ...

... calves. As we were heading down to the water, we heard the horn go off - yep that was the whale crier of hermanus blowing for a whale sighting - everything seemed in place for us to see many whales breaching (lifting themselves out of the water). In the ...

... some good ones from the boat, which I will post later.    After we got back to the harbor, we stopped in Hermanus on our way back to Cape Town.  Hermanus is famous for whale-watching, and this is supposedly the optimal time of the year ...

... 's family couldn't have been more welcoming. While Si was working, his mother took us absolutely everywhere - Stellenbosch, Table Mountain, Hermanus to see whales, more wineries... We went to Robben Island (where Mandela was in jail for 17? years) ...

... to catch fur seals in their jaws.  I had heard many great stories from other backpackers who had already gone to Hermanus and Gansbaii to enter the waters with these fearsome predators.  We had expected the shark diving to be the memorable ...

... Camps Bay with all the beautiful people. Then its off to the wine country for some great properties and good food. Then down to Hermanus (pity wrong time of year for whales) and on to the garden route. Finally 4 days in reserves just above Port ...

... through very varied countryside, we stopped for lunch & came across the famous sightings of the southern right whales at Hermanus,then onto Napier before joining the n2 to Albertinia, this is the home of Aloe Vera ( sorry michael we ...

... the first time took longer than it should. It felt a little easier to peddle on the second day. The ride to Hermanus took the whole morning. I freewheeled down into the seaside town to find where Camphill is. The efficient tourist information office gave ...