Dawn over Lion's Head and the city from Signal Hill
First Light Mornings

Eerste Lig

Afrikaans for "first light"

Signal Hill before the city wakes

Length
2½ hours
When
Starts 45 min before sunrise
Group
Private, up to 8 guests
From
R1,900 per group

We collect you in the dark and are on the ridge with a flask of moerkoffie before the sky turns. Below you the City Bowl switches from streetlights to sunlight in about twenty minutes, and you get to watch all of it.

It's the tour that gave us our name, and still the one we'd send a friend on first.

Only a local would know
Your guide reads the cloud on Table Mountain like a forecast. By the time the sun is up you'll know whether today is a beach day or a mountain day, and where to go with it.

The itinerary

  1. Pre-dawn

    Hotel pick-up

    Blankets and coffee in the car.

  2. Sunrise

    Signal Hill ridge

    Away from the top car park, on the quiet side.

  3. After

    Kloof Nek and the noon gun slopes

    The city's oldest lookouts, explained.

  4. Breakfast

    A neighbourhood bakery

    A stop for breakfast.