Monday 10 December 2012

Cape Town, The V&A Waterfront

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The Victoria & Alfred Waterfront, known simply as the Waterfront, is Cape Town's original Victorian harbour.

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After two decades of stagnation, it was redeveloped in the 1990s and incorporates the city's most popular central shopping area, an always busy complex of shops, restaurants, cinemas, waterside walkways and a fuctioning harbour, with magnificent Table Mountain rising beyond.

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The Waterfront is where you set sail for Robben Island, embarking at the very same spot as many of South Africa's anti-apartheid activists on their way to incarceration and hard labour.

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The Marina and the Victoria & Alfred basins:

Victoria Basin, the smaller Alfred Basin to its west, and the Marina beyond, create the northwestern half of the Waterfront's geography of piers and quays.

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The shopping focus of the Waterfront is Victoria Wharf, an enormous flashy mall on two levels, extending along Quays Five and Six.
It's here that most visitors to the Waterfront arrive.
With outdoor seating, the restaurants and cafés on the mall's east side have fabulous views across the busy harbour to Table Mountain.

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Along the Alfred Basin's North Quay, Alfred Mall Shopping Centre is a complex of touristy curio shops, boutiques and restaurants. 
East of the Alfred Shopping Mall, the Pierhead is dominated by the Old Port Captain's Office, a gabled Arts and Crafts building erected in 1904, with an imposing presence that reflects its status as the nerve centre of the harbour in the early twentieth century.

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