Find the Top 10 Attractions in Cape Town

Cape Town’s icon, Table Mountain, stands with her base firmly within the Table Mountain National Park, 1 086 metres above Table Bay. The imposing table top, more often than not draped in rich cloud that seems never to quite tumble from its sides, is a national monument and her shape has been adopted as ...

Robben Island, just off the coast of Cape Town, is famous for the imprisonment of South Africa’s first democratic President, Nelson Mandela in its maximum-security prison and its association with apartheid. However, today the island is a World Heritage Site and home to a museum that reflects the triumph of the ...

Cape Town is known for its icy water but that’s made up for by its beautiful beaches - and the beautiful bodies to match. With the magnificent background of the famed Table Mountain, what other beaches could compete? The world class beaches of Clifton and Camps Bay are favourite hangouts for ...

At the end of the Cape Peninsula, about 80 km from Cape Town, is Cape Point. Also known as the Cape of Good Hope or Cape of Storms it lies within the Good Hope portion of the Table Mountain National Park, a World Heritage Site. This wind-battered, tip of land that ventures out into treacherous seas has ...

The V&A Waterfront, a renovation of part of Cape Town’s Dockyard, is one of the mother city’s biggest tourist attractions. It draws over 20 million visitors a year and is a combination of shopping, restaurants, entertainment and office locations, hotels, apartments and residential marina ...

High on any visitor’s list of things to do in Cape Town, Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens is over 528 hectares of some of the world’s most beautiful gardens that lie literally at the feet of the eastern slopes of Table Mountain. Catching a glimpse of the large bird population, the Egyptian geese and the resident meercats ...

Boulders Beach, named after the huge granite boulders that offer protection from the wind, is not only one of the most sheltered beaches in Cape Town but is also home to a colony of African Penguins. And you don't have to work too hard to figure out why – it is debatably the prettiest and certainly one of the best ...

The fertile green valleys of the Cape Winelands are surrounded by proud mountain ranges. Towns and villages have many historic homesteads and monuments, and every so often fruit orchards are to be seen, whose produce may be found in all corners of the world. It is the Mediterranean climate and winter rainfall of the ...

The coming of the whales to the Cape Overberg coastline, also known as the Cape Whale Coast, every year between June and November, not only creates a stir, but brings to our shores a large, intelligent and remarkable giant of the sea and the only mammal to have adapted to life in the open oceans ...

Scattered along the Garden Route, fashionable seaside resorts abound, attracting jet-setters from around the globe. Tiny coastal villages appeal especially to outdoor people who enjoy an unstructured holiday agenda. Take the N2 from Cape Town to George or the more scenic and slightly shorter Route 62 from ...