Cape Town, Table Mountain National Park, Cape of Good Hope

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Most people come to the Cape of Good Hope section of the Table Mountain National Park to see the southernmost tip of Africa at Cape Point.


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In fact, the continent's real tip is at Cape Agulhas, some 300 km southeast of here, but Cape Point is a lot easier to get to and a hugely dramatic spot.


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The reserve sits atop massive sea cliffs with huge views, strong seas and, when it's blowing southeast, gales that whip off caps and sunglasses as visitors gaze southwards from the old lighthouse buttress.


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From the car park, the famous viewpoint is a short, steep walk up a series of stairs to the original lighthouse.
A funicular runs the less energetic to the top, where there's a curio shop.


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Cape Town, Table Mountain, the Cable Car

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The least challenging, but certainly not least interesting, way up and down the mountain is via the highly popular cable car at the western table, which offers dizzying views across Table Bay and the Atlantic.


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The state-of-the-art Swiss system is designed to complete a 360-degree rotation on the way, giving passengers a full panorama.


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Cars leave from the lower cableway station on Tafelberg Road.
You can make a real outing of it by going up for breakfast or a sunset drink and meal at the vamped up eco-restaurant.
The upper station is an incomparable spot to watch the sun go down.

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Cape Town, Table Mountain

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Table Mountain, a 1087-metre flat-topped massif with dramatic cliffs and eroded gorges, dominated the northern end of the Cape Peninsula.


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Its north face overlooks the city centre with the distinct formation of Lion's Head and Signal Hill to the west and Devil's Peak to the east.


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The west face is made up of a series of gable-like formations known as the Twelve Apostles; the southwest face towers over Hout Bay and the east face over the southern suburbs.


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The mountain is a compelling feature in the middle of the city, a wilderness where you'll find wildlife and 1400 species of flora.

Indigenous mammals include baboons, dassies and porcupines.


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Reckoned to be the most-climbed massif in the world, Table Mountain has suffered under the constant pounding of hikers - although the damage isn't always obvious.


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Every year the mountain strikes back, taking its toll of lives.
One of the commonest causes of difficulties is people losing the track (often due to sudden mist falling) and becoming trapped.


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If you plan to tackle one of the hundreds of its walks or climbs, go properly prepared.
There are also full-day guided hikes tailored to your level of fitness.
You may choose to come back the easy way by cable car, or partially abseil.


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Cape Town, Iziko Bo-Kaap Museum

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One of the best introduction to Bo-Kaap history and traditions is the Bo-Kaap Museum, near the Buitengragt end of Wale Street.

It consists mainly of the family house and possessions of Abu Bakr Effendi, a nineteenth century religious leader brougth out from Turkey by the British in 1862 as a mediator between feuding Muslim factions.


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He became an important member of the community, founded an Arabic school and wrote a book in the local vernacular - now regarded as possibly the first book to be published in what can be recognized as Afrikaans,


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The museum also as exhibits exploring the local brand of Islam, which has its own unique traditions and nearly two dozen kramats (shrines) dotted about the peninsula.


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Cape Town, Iziko Bertram House

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At the southernmost end of Government Avenue, you'll come upon Bertram House, whose beautiful two-storey brick facade looks out across a fragrant herb garden.


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Built in the 1840s, the museum is significant as the only surviving brick Georgian-style house in Cape Town, and displays typical furniture and objects of a well-to-do colonial British family in the first half of the nineteenth century.


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Bertram House was extensively restored to its current state in the 1980s - and again in 2010 - : imported face brick and Welsh slate were used to re-create the original facade, while the interior walls were redecorated in their earlier dark green and ochre, based on the evidence of paint scrapings.


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The reception rooms are decorated in the Regency style, while the porcelain is predominantly nineteenth-century English.


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Cape Town, Camps Bay

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The suburb of Camps Bay climbs the slopes of Table Mountain and is scooped into a small amphitheatre, bounded by the Lion's Head and the Twelve Apostles section of the Table Mountains range.


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This, and the airborne views across the Atlantic, makes Camps Bay one of the most desiderable places to live in Cape Town.


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The main drag, Victoria Road, skirts the coast and is packed with trendy restaurants, a couple of nightspots and some upmarket accomodation, while the wide sandy beach is accessible by bus and is consequently enjoyed by families of all shapes and colours.


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However, the beach is exposed to the southeaster, and there's the usual Atlantic chill and an occasional dangerous backwash.


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Cape Town, Kalk Bay

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One of the most southerly of Cape Town's suburbs, Kalk Bay centres around a lively working harbour with wooden fishing vessels, mountain views, and a strip of shops packed with collectibles, antique shops, trendy coffee shops and restaurants.


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Kalk Bay somehow managed to slip through the net of the Group Areas Act, making it one of the few places of the peninsula with an intact coloured community, and Kalk Bay and the larger Hout Bay are the only harbour settlements still worked by coloured fishermen.


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It is well-known for its artistic and alternative community too, living up cobbled streets, and there is a fair bit of visitor accomodation available.


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The village is arranged around the small docks, where you can watch the boats come in; you can also buy fresh fish, which are flung onto the quayside, sold in spirited auctions, gutted for a small fee and the innards then thrown to waiting seals.


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Kalk Bay is busiest on Saturdays and Sundays when Capetonians descend to breakfast or lunch at one of the excellent cafés, wander the the shops and harbour, or have a drink right on the water's edge.


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