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along with countless enticing restaurants and
shops. Or savour a bitter-sweet experience on a
trip to
Robben Island,
where Nelson Mandela
spent 18 of his 27 years of incarceration. Hearing
the stories and seeing his prison cell is essential
education for all true South Africans.
Heading out of the mother city, there are
wine
and olive tasting routes
radiating in all directions
– Paarl, Stellenbosch, Robertson and Riebeek
Kasteel to name a few. Then head towards the
West Coast for completely different attractions
full of soul. In Darling, stop for a traditional South
African-style meal or take in a show at
Evita se
Perron.
Pieter-Dirk Uys bought the station here,
painted it pink, and revamped it into a shrine to
kitch and comedy.
Along the West Coast are quaint fishing villages
to visit, like
Paternoster,
with world-class
restaurants tucked between fisherman’s cottages
and a long white beach sprinkled with colourful
wooden fishing boats. The nearby
West Coast
WE S TERN CAPE
ecognised internationally as one of the
world’s top tourist destinations, luckily
Cape Town belongs to us. The city and
surrounds are bursting with attractions for all
ages and interests, but a cable car ride up
Table
Mountain
is a ‘must’ to see the mountain up close
and the beautiful city from afar. Then head for the
Rhodes Memorial in Table Mountain National
Park to see real live
quaggas.
They have been
rebred and brought back from extinction, and a
small group now live on the mountain.
A drive around the peninsula to
Cape Point
is majestically beautiful and takes you to the
official Cape of Storms. Here you can see the tiny
lighthouse on the tip of the headland, built short
to shine under the fog layer, and you can breathe
what’s said to be the cleanest air in the world –
courtesy of jet streams from Antarctica.
City lovers will enjoy the
Victoria and Alfred
Waterfront
and the Two Oceans Aquarium there,
Photo: Thinkstock
Cape Point: also known as The Cape of Storms. (Can you see the tiny lighthouse on the tip?)
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