June 10

Welcome to Cape Town!

By Tamlin Wightman on June 10, 2011

Lose yourself in our video and find yourself in Cape Town

For those who have yet to step foot in this melting pot of a city, Cape Town, we introduce the Mother City to you here in a new Rhinoafrica.com video. But this is just a teaser – you’re going to want to experience iKapa for yourself. Up close!

Cape Town was recently recognised as the world’s top travel destination in the TripAdvisor 2011 Travellers’ Choice Destination Awards, beating international competitors such as London and New York. And it’s obvious to us why.

Waterfront and Table Mountain - Cape town

Europe and Africa unite in this city, which is considered to be one of the most multicultural in the world. With its varied landscape, good climate and well-developed infrastructure, it attracts tourists the world over.

Highlights of Cape Town include the world-famous national monument Table Mountain and the several hikes and glorious sunsets you can enjoy on its peaks. There’s the Atlantic Seaboard, known as Cape Town’s ‘Riviera’, stretching from the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront on the north shore of Table Mountain all the way down the west side of the Cape Peninsula to Hout Bay. It also includes the residential suburbs of Mouille Point, Sea Point and Green Point, Fresnaye, Bantry Bay, Clifton, Camps Bay, Bakoven and Llandudno.

Cape Town Waterfront

The City Bowl is a vibey metropolis of restaurants, bars, dance clubs, residents and businesses, as is the V&A Waterfront – which is a must for holidaymakers. The Southern Suburbs, False Bay and Cape Point offer sights and sounds at a slower pace, with seascapes and ocean-side eateries, wine farms, nature reserve trails and more.

For a place to rest your head in and around the city, check out our accommodation guide and browse our list of great activities and tours (day and longer).

Cape Town and surrounds


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About the author 

Tamlin Wightman

Tamlin has been exploring, writing about and photographing Africa ever since her first job as a photojournalist for Getaway Magazine. She's lived on an island, eaten with lions, sailed catamarans in the Indian Ocean, tracked wild dogs with Kinglsey Holgate, and white water rafted down the Zambezi and has kept just about every airplane ticket that has crossed her hands.

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