FAMILY FUN & FURRY FRIENDS, FAMILY DAY IN THE WINELANDS

Visit: Explore Sideways, 166 Buitengracht Street, 8001 South Africa

Start your adventure with a visit to Eagle Encounters – a rehabilitation, conservation and eco-education zone at the Spier Wine Estate in Stellenbosch. Here you and your little ones will be able to get up close and personal with our fine feathered friends. There are scheduled show times where you’ll be able to engage with and handle a wide range of furry, feathered, spiked, horned and scaled friends in the park.

Once you’ve had enough time with the wonderful animals on show, you’ll be able to stroll past the all day craft market to the wine tasting room. While you taste wine, your kids will be doing some tasting of their own – a grape juice tasting with an educational activity sheet highlighting the role insects play in the vineyards.

After your wine tasting you will head to Fairview Wine Estate where you can taste cheese and wine, shop at the deli, pet the goats in the famous goat tower and have lunch at the Goatshed Restaurant if you so choose.

Head over to the Spice Route destination where you’ll be presented with a wine tasting where you get to taste five wines while the kids and adults alike get treated to a confection tasting. While at the Spice Route you can also visit the local artisans and shops which include a glass blowing studio, the brewery, an art gallery, the chocolate factory, the distillery and a deli. There are also a range of café’s and restaurants to choose from if you’re feeling nibbly.