The world's best land-based whale watching
Hermanus
Hermanus curls around Walker Bay an easy 90 minutes from Cape Town, and from June to November, southern right whales breach and lobtail so close to shore that the town employs the world's only whale crier to announce the…
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Hermanus curls around Walker Bay an easy 90 minutes from Cape Town, and from June to November, southern right whales breach and lobtail so close to shore that the town employs the world's only whale crier to announce them. The 12 km cliff path turns every bench into a grandstand. Between sightings there are wine farms in the Hemel-en-Aarde valley, great-white-shark cage diving at Gansbaai and some of the Cape's best coastal dining.
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