Cape Town, Long Street

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Parallel to Adderley Street, buzzing one-way Long Street is one of Cape Town's most diverse thoroughfares, best known as the city's main nightlife strip.
When it was first settled by Nuslims some three hundred years ago, Long Street marked Cape Town's boundary; by the 1960s, it had become a sleazy thoroughfare of drinking holes and whorehouses.


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Miraculously, it's all still here, but with a whiff of gentrification and a rather boring section of discount furniture shops and fast-food joints; it deserves exploration from the Wale Street intersection onwards.


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Mosques still coexist with bars, dagga (weed), is readily available, and antique dealers, craft shops, bookshops and cafés do a good trade.
The street is packed with backpacker hostels and a couple of upmarket hotels, though it can be very noisy into the early hours from the nightclubs.


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At night it's safe enough to pub or club crawl, and you'll always be able to find taxis.
Street vendors sell boerewors rolls and from 8 pm till the early hours music blares from Mohammed's Street schwarma stand.


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