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Cities of South Africa - Cape Town
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Cape Town Attractions
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Golf Tours in Cape Town
With a golf tour you will enjoy the picturesque beauty that Cape Town is famous for while playing golf on the best golf courses South Africa
has to offer. When you are not playing golf you will get the opportunity
to explore the region extensively and get to know the history and beauty
of Cape Town. With trips to Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela was held
captive for 27 years, and up Table Mountain to enjoy the unhindered views
of Cape Town and the Peninsula, a golf tour is the best way for the golf
lover to experience the best Cape Town has to offer. Find out more about golf tours in Cape Town at South
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Shopping in Cape Town
Cape Town is the ideal place for a bit of retail therapy, with visitors
often mesmerised by the sheer variety of goodies to be purchased. And
the experience need not be expensive as one of the best things about shopping
here is the enjoyment to be had from browsing itself. The city's intricate
streets, enticing markets and glamorous malls offer a splendid way to
while away the entire day.
Make sure to visit retail havens such as the Victoria Wharf at the
V&A Waterfront complex and Cavendish Square in the Southern Suburbs.
One should not, of course, forget the enormous Tyger Valley Centre and
the Somerset Mall - a short drive from the city centre.
In Cape Town you will find beautiful and rare antiques. Discover art
nouveau jewelry, rare books and precious objects, which can be found
in the stalls along paved Church Street, or behind the shop fronts of
the original Victorian buildings lining Long Street and its surrounds.
Informal markets and pavement traders are found in abundance in Cape
Town. Here you will find a vast array of bargain items, original curios
and collectables, clothes and food. Shop with the sound of djembe drumming
or children singing filling the air.
Another must stop is the Khayalitsha Craft Market where you will find
a range of uniquely crafted items such as hand-printed fabric.
Shopping in the city is essentially on foot, but if you don't have
a car at your disposal, getting to any of the malls or larger centres
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Outdoor Adventures in Cape Town
With the favourable climate of Africa, Cape Town is an outdoor adventurers
paradise. You can Abseil, Bungee-jump, Cycle on hired road bikes or
mountain bikes. Hire a Dune buggy or 4X4, Explore. You can Fish with
line or spear, go big Game fishing on a deep-sea yacht, Horse-ride or
Hike or Hunt in paint-ball war games, or Hire a Harley-Davidson. You
can Ice-skate, Jump from a plane - singly or in tandem, Kayak or Kite-fly,
flirt with a Life-saver, Mountain climb or bike, seize the Night, ride
an Ostrich, Para-glide from Lion's Head to Camps Bay, Pick fruit on
a fruit farm, Queue for a cue at a pool bar or go search for the re-bred
Quaggas , Rollercoast at Ratanga Junction, go Rafting or canoeing on
white-water winter rivers, Surfing or Spear-Fishing, Tablemountaining,
go Up Up and Away in a balloon trip over the winelands, Dive with sharks
at the V&A Two Oceans Aquarium or out in False Bay, Wind-surf, do
X-rated Cape Town (see the smalls pages of the newspaper if your imagination
fails you), Yacht, go cycle after Zebras in the Cape Point Reserve.
The list is endless, choose your adventure and enjoy what Cape Town
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Sport in Cape Town
The Western Province cricket team is one of the best in the country and
the people of Cape Town are passionate about their cricket. The game is
played by many and has been played since the early days of British occupation.
The Newlands Cricket Ground is one of the most picturesque in the world
and the facilities at the Grounds are excellent.
Cape Town is home to the famous Argus Cycle Tour of the Peninsula, which
takes place in March every year. The Cycle Tour winds through an endless
selection of beautiful forest trails throughout the city.
For deep sea game fishing you will find the big game of the cape shore
that is among the best in the world in particular long fin, yellow fin
tuna and broad billed swordfish.
The area in and around Cape Town offers the golf enthusiasts some of
the best golf courses in the world. Visit
South African Golf Tours for information on courses and golf tours throughout
Cape Town.
Rugby is sacred among South Africans and Springbok team members, fondly
known as the ‘boks’, are national heroes.
The Royal Cape Yacht Club is situated at the docks in Table Bay, and
is the starting point for the famous Cape to Rio Yacht Race, which takes
place every two years.
Scuba diving is one of the largest growing sports in Cape Town and
there are many areas offering excellent visibility for this exciting
sport. Don’t forget your full-length wet suits, because the waters
in Cape Town are notorious for their icy temperatures.
Surfing is perhaps the biggest sub-culture in the Western Cape, and
some of the world's leading surfers are resident here. Competitions
are held during the summer months, and you’ll find perfect waves
at Kommetjie, Noordhoek, Clifton, Rocklands.
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Table Mountain
Table Mountain is a flat-topped mountain range overlooking Cape Town and is a prominent tourist attraction. Visitors can hike or take the cable-way to the top. The main vegetation of the mountain is the unique and rich Cape fynbos, which forms part of the Cape Floral Region protected areas. These protected areas are a World Heritage Site, and an estimated 2,200 species of plants are found on the mountain alone. Amongst these species are many kinds of proteas.
The Table Mountain Cableway takes passengers from the lower cable station on Tafelberg Road, about 302 m above sea level, to the plateau at the top of the mountain. The upper cable station offers views overlooking Cape Town, Table Bay and Robben Island to the north, and the Atlantic seaboard to the west and south.
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Table Mountain National Park
Table Mountain National Park, previously known as the Cape Peninsula National Park, is a national park in Cape Town, South Africa for the purpose of protecting the natural environment of the Table Mountain Chain, and in particular the rare fynbos vegetation. The park is managed by South African National Parks. Two well-known landmarks are Table Mountain and Cape of Good Hope.
The park runs approximately north-south along the range of mountains that make up the mountainous spine of the Cape Peninsula, from Signal Hill in the north, through Lion's Head, Table Mountain, Constantiaberg, Silvermine, the mountains of the southern Peninsula, terminating at Cape Point. The Table Mountain Cableway carries visitors from the Lower Cable Station on Kloof Nek Road to the top of Table Mountain, allowing visitors to avoid the fairly arduous walk up. Boulders Beach, south of Simon's Town, contains a large colony of African Penguins. Cape Point and the Cape of Good Hope are very scenic, although they are neither the southernmost tip of Africa nor the meeting-place of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, as is often believed. |
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Robben Island
Robben Island is located about 11 kilometres off the coast of Cape Town and is about a kilometre wide. Robben Island is most famous for that it was here that former South African President Nelson Mandela, alongside many other political prisoners, spent decades imprisoned during the apartheid era.
Today the island is a popular tourist destination and was declared a World Heritage Site in 1999. It is reached by ferry from the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront in Cape Town and is open throughout the year, weather permitting, and tours of the island and prison are led by guides who were formerly prisoners there. Robben Island Museum operates as a site or living museum. There is also a penguin colony on the island. |
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