Explore the Cape Peninsula … a...
by Kallista
Explore the Cape Peninsula … a spiny ridge of mountains tails south to tumble into the sea of rocks at Cape Point … the most southerly point of the peninsula. (The most southerly point of S.A. is Cape Agulhas.) There is a large parking area … for tourists and visitors like us, a restaurant and a souvenir shop. We had a delicious lobster lunch after our hike, at the restaurant. Cape point is the meeting place of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans … the east coasts ends abruptly off the cliffs into the Indian Ocean, … whereas the west slopes more gently in ridges to the beaches and the Atlantic Ocean.
Discover Table Mountain!
by chikidee
Most people take the cable car up to the top of Table Mountain and the ones who walk, take Platteklip Gorge. So this can be quite busy and it's not the most interesting way up!
The path we took is very adventerous with lots of climbing and steep edges... However, it can get dangerous if you don't know the way! When we walked up, we met 3 Austrian people, who you think should know the danger of mountains, but they just walked in the believe that it would be an easy way. So we met them just before a rock face you have to climb up. Well, it's not that difficult, but one of them was afraid of the hight... Luckily, they met us and with everybody's help he managed to get to the top finally!!
You have to be an experienced hiker to take this way and this is how you find it: Take the normal way from the cable way station up. When you reach a turning where one path leads left towards Platteklip Gorge you go right up the small rock face. Just after that there is a good path again. When you get to a rock face further up you're on the right way. Climb up to the top. If you are a bit agile you'll make it easily. As soon as you are on top you walk right underneath the cable way station to the right around the mountain! Be careful, it's very steep here!! And on some places there are hols in the path and you can look straight down a few hundred meters... really scary!!
This is the most adventerous way to get up Table Mountain! But it can be dangerous!!! Be careful!
Shop, shop, shop.
by mke1963 about Shopping Malls
Shopping in Cape Town
The retail industry in Cape Town, and elsewhere in South Africa, has followed the US pattern very closely, with town and city centres emptying out in favour of out-of-town malls. Most shopping areas remaining in the centre of cities are open only during the week and on Saturday mornings, whereas the malls have the usual long opening hours, including Sundays.
On the Cape Peninsula, the Long Beach Mall at the southern foot of Ou Kaapseweg in Sun Valley, is a good mall with the usual variety of department stores, a few chain restaurants and ?one or two of everything else?.
Closer to town is the huge Cavendish Mall in Claremont, completely indoors and compltely sterile, but it does have everything. However, at the weekends, it can take a while to find a parking space in the attached multi-storey car-park.
Cape Town has now a completely...
by cosmopolit
Cape Town has now a completely rebuilt airport and is served by all major carriers. From London it takes about 11hrs non stop. On this journey it makes sense to upgrade to business (BA has full lenght beds)as there's no timedifference with continental Europe e.g. wake up to a full day upon arrival!
Maximum freedom by renting a car there's also organized tours to be had aplenty at good value for money. Shop around at the tourist office near main station.
Eat and Watch the Sunset in Camps Bay
by TRimer about Blues
If you can get a table near the windows, you will have a wonderful view of the sunset over Camps Bay beach. Unfortunately, we only booked our reservation once we were in Cape Town so we had to settle for a seat near the kitchen - which is an open area in the restaurant.
Compared with the service we experienced in the rest of S.A., I would say that Blues was the worst. We got the impression that the waitress was tired of dealing with tourists and wanted to be elsewhere. Very different from what we received at places like Azure and Emily's. I have read that the food at Blues is mediterranian and Californian. It does have a lot of seafood on the menu. In addition to choices of lobster, crayfish, and klingkip, they do have a selection of filets, a chicken dish and a variety of pastas. My husband who had the seafood enjoyed his meal much more than me (I did not).
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