You can do this either as a guided tour or on your own in a rental car.  Driving is easy around South Africa once you get away from the cities and we chose this option to have more control on where we went and how long we stayed there.

The distance isn’t that far, you will have around 3-ish hours of driving time plus what time you spend along the way.  We stopped at Boulder Beach to see the Africa Penguins, then took the scenic drive out to the Cape of Good Hope and stopped at World of Birds on the way back.

So we got up early and headed to Boulders Beach in hopes of beating the tour groups.  We did pretty well, had nice close views of the African Penguins!

We headed south towards the Cape of Good Hope.  This is where we ran into the tourist crowds again.  It was especially funny to see the baboons jumping on some of the cars.  There are signs everywhere telling people not to feed the baboons (we didn’t) but apparently some people did.

After walking around a bit, we headed back up towards the World of Birds as we wanted to have enough time for lunch and a good look at the birds.