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View from Boulders Beach at sunset

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Table Mountain Cape Town

195 Reviews Wherever you go in Cape Town, Table Mountain dominates the skyline, so what could be more natural than finding out what the city looks like from the top? The cablecar ride to the top of Table...

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Penguins / Boulders Beach Cape Town

84 Reviews However often we visit Cape Town, we never tire of Boulders Beach. The main visitor centre with the wooden boardwalks down into the penguin colony are great, and lots of other tourists have written...

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Cape Point Cape Town

145 Reviews Cape Point is a glorious location, especially if the weather is good. Actually it's probably even more impressive when the weather is foul and you get a real sense of what the first explorers had to...

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Scenic drives / Garden Route Cape Town

50 Reviews 'Iconic' is one of my favourite words (as those who have read my travel pages will know) and there are few locations in Cape Town that better deserve this adjective than the Chapman's Peak Drive! The...

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Wine route / Stellenbosch Cape Town

68 Reviews This small town, situated about 40 km east of Cape Town, is worth visiting for a couple of reasons. Founded in 1679, it is the second oldest town in South Africa (the first one is Cape Town)....

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V & A Waterfront Cape Town

81 Reviews This is a very popular tourist attraction besides being a working port. You can sense the vibrancy of the area as soon as you get there. There just seems to be a lightness of mood as people wander...

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Beaches Cape Town

91 Reviews Kommetjie (pronounced "Kom-e-key") is one very laid back place, and arguably the New Age capital of the Cape Peninsula. Kommetjie is located on the Atlantic side of the peninsula, just south of...

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Museums / Historical Interest Cape Town

85 Reviews The Cape Town museum is located at the end of the Corporation Gardens just next to Parliament, and is a great natural history museum that doesn't seem to get the credit that it deserves. The building...

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Kirstenbosch Gardens Cape Town

65 Reviews A visit to a botanical garden in winter - is it worth paying an admission fee? If you are in Cape Town in winter, don't hesitate. They say that each season is good to visit Kirstenbosch Botanical...

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Robben Island / Museums Cape Town

68 Reviews Making the pilgrimage to Robben Island where Nelson Mandela was incarcerated for the majority of his 27 years in prison features close to the top of most tourist's South African To Do list, and with...

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Bo-Kaap Cape Town

27 Reviews This neighbourhood, located on a hill south-west of downtown, is the area historically inhabited by mainly Islaminc descendants of slaves from South-East Asia (the area was known as - 'Malay Quarter'...

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Cape Town CBD Cape Town

41 Reviews The Slave House museum is located in the CBD, close to Parliament, the Anglican cathedral and the entrance to Company Gardens. The main attraction here is an exhibit on Nelson Mandela. It draws on a...

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Two Oceans Aquarium Cape Town

30 Reviews The Two Oceans aquarium is quite simply the best aquarium I've ever visited, and is a brilliant way to entertain young and old for a couple of hours - always a good backstop option if the weather...

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Seals at Duiker Island Cape Town

18 Reviews Duiker Island is a small island with seals on it. The island is the main spot of interest in a 30 minute boat tour which is offered from Hout Bay. There’s no possibility to get off the boat to get...

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Tours / Cruises Cape Town

31 Reviews The vast majority of Capetonians live in townships and you'll pass some of them on your way from the airport to the city centre. For me it would have been quite ignorant not to visit at least one of...

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Shopping Cape Town

20 Reviews I was there late November and there are many, many wonderful shops in the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront Mall. Give yourself at least a full day to explore and roam through the various sections. I...

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Simons Town Cape Town

26 Reviews In a corner of Jubilee Square, Simonstown, you can say hello to the statue of Able Seaman Just Nuisance, a Great Dane who was the only dog ever to be officially enlisted in the Royal Navy! Kids love...

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Sport Cape Town

14 Reviews Downhill Adventures runs the oldest surf school in Cape Town, using proven techniques to get absolute beginners standing on a wave by the end of a day. Expert guides will fill you in on surfers’...

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Go cheese tasting!

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You cannot come to Kommetjie and not visit Imhoff Farm!It is a relaxed farm area, which has a variety of food, art, furniture and crafty places on its premisis. It is a lovely place to visit for lunch and a saunter around, and locals really love coming here.There is a wonderful history to the farm itself, before it was commercialised.Baron Gustav Wilhelm van Imhoff was the Commissioner Extrordinaire at the Cape at the time (1743), and due to a constant need for fresh farm produce for Simons Town and the navy there, he commissioned farms in the Noordhoek area.Other farms were commissioned in the Fish Hoek area too.Zwaansweide was a farm owned by Christina Rousseau, and the Commissioner was so impressed with her produce, that he pledged to her the land near Slangkop ridge, which was appropriately named 'Imhoff's Gift'.Due to the Group Areas Act in 1967, a part of the farm was resettled and...

Wine Routes (Olifants River)

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Moyo at Spier

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We were treated to a night out at Moyo at Spier. This is a great night out. African style dancing and singing entertains you throughout the night on stage and at your tables. The central marquee includes a range of traditional food from the Western Cape. The food was excellent quality here and nobody will go home hungry as it is an all you can eat buffet. Now I really really enjoyed this night out, it was great fun. Some people may find it too touristy I know and the Spier complex has some tourist trap reviews on VT. I can only tell you that I was taken by my S African hosts who absolutely love the night out here and make a pilgrimage two or three times a year and I wish I was with them more often

Whale Watching!!!!!!!!

by nora_south_africa

This is amazing, between June and November see whales along the South African coast.follow aroute and see them along the coast.... From Hermanus, Sand dunes at De Hoop Nature reserve, Witsand, Stilbaai, Jongensfontein,Mossel Bay!!! and when you visit these small towns make sure to eat at the small restaurant on Witsand Beach , they make wonderful seafood and food and wine at good price, and in Stilbaai taste EISBEIN at FYNBOS restaurant...also makes very good seafood.

The Botanical garden of Kirstenbosch

by Alain_Smeets

Visit the beautiful botanical garden of Kirstenbosch, walk in the gardens or in the greenhouse and look at the beautiful plants and trees.You can wonder for hours through these beautiful surroundings, we enjoyed our time here very much. For some more info, please have a look at their official webpage.--------The following text is borrowed from their official webpage. Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden is world-renowned for the beauty and diversity of the Cape flora it displays and for the magnificence of its setting against the eastern slopes of Table Mountain. Kirstenbosch grows only indigenous South African plants. The estate covers 528 hectares and supports a diverse fynbos flora and natural forest. The cultivated garden (36 hectares) displays collections of South African plants, particularly those from the winter rainfall region of the country.---------------For more information...

Het Taalmonument (The language monument)

by Alain_Smeets

The language monument reminds the people to the official status of the African language. This monument exist out of grained granite that is made into concrete.The small columns remind that the Dutch, English and several African languages are the source for the African language.Try shouting in the biggest horn to hear your voice carried out over the area.For more information and photos see my page: PaarlYou can find much more explanation about the symbolism and the idea behind this design on their website. (This is an extract from that side) A COLONNADE of three elements to the left or west of the approach symbolizes the languages and cultures of the enlightened West. These structures, closely juxtaposed, begin at a height and diminish in size and then descend in a curve to ascend again into the main upward sweep.A PODIUM with three semi spheres to the right, or to the eastern side of the...

a SAtirical look at pre & post APARTHEID

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Pieter-Dirk Uys was born in Cape Town in 1945, then he he launched his one-man total onslaught in 1981 , on Separate Development a.k.a. APARTHEID and its promotors.with a Jewish Berlin-born mother and an Afrikaner Calvinist father and so belongs to both chosen (white) people. It is reputed that he is related to a 17th century black Cape courtesan, thus making him a true local native! also Email: evita@iafrica.com

Cape Point drive from Cape Town

by EmmaN68

Cape Point driving from Cape Town and back up again:Chapmans's Peak Drive - (toll R28) with some of the most spectacular ocean views in the Cape there are loads of places to stop for photos along the drive. At the end of CPD if you want to stop for coffee, we went to the The Red Herring Trading Yard which had some great shops :-) Down the Atlantic Coast of the Peninsula past Scarborough you will be driving along the boundary of the Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve. We saw a troop of baboons crossing the road here. :-) Just before you enter the Park you come to the Cape Ostrich Farm. Apparently you can buy bags of food which they will take from your hand and buy lots of Ostrich products here, from painted and carved eggs, to feather dusters and lots of (expensive) ostrich leather goods. We did not bother to go in so I can't tell you about there. Just after the ostrich farm is a roadside...

Stop at Albertinia

by nora_south_africa

On the N2 Albertinia is about half way from Cape Town to Port Elizabeth, Its a lovely small town to stop, It has a lovely picnic area and places to eat as well as local foods that you can buy at times.there are also some shops to buy gifts and a deli to buy local produce.

Table Mountain

by Jenniflower

Table Mountain is famous for its 'Table cloth' - a thin, white and whispy cloud formation that flows effortesly over the top like a waterfall, only to disappear into thin air halfway down the slope. Legend and myths abound... most saying that a retired pirate, on climbing this flat-topped mountain, met up with the devil himself! Trying to protect his soul, and feeling desperate, the pirate challenged the devil to a smoking competition. They then stoked up their wooden pipes and have been smoking ever since! A quaint tale indeed :)The scientific (and more boring!) explanation is that the summer anti-cyclones bring warm, moist air up from the south, which then condenses to form a white cloud layer on the much cooler mountain top, which then spills over the city side to only disperse at the warmer, lower altitude. Quite something hey?

Top 3 Hotels in Province of the Western Cape

The Table Bay Hotel Cape Town

9 Reviews and 344 Opinions One of the more expensive options, but if you can afford it then go for it. The location is great,...

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Kanonkop Guest House Knysna

1 Review and 72 Opinions Our 6 night stay was spilt: 3 nights in the Forest Room and 3 Nights in "Paradise". Both rooms are...

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Hlangana Lodge Oudtshoorn

1 Review and 60 Opinions Set in more than a hectare of exotic gardens,Hlangana Lodge offers the highest standards of luxury...

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Q: hi, i'm going to leave for Capetown in January. i saw a guest house in blouberg, is this place safe?or it's dangerous?pleas help,...

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