Western Cape

The Western Cape is one of South Africa’s premier tourist attractions and for good reason.

It is home to Table Mountain, scenic winelands, magnificent beaches, world-class restaurants and cosmopolitan lifestyles.

Come and enjoy...

Cape Town’s Victoria & Albert Waterfront

The most visited attraction in Cape Town is the Victoria & Albert Waterfront with its assortment of shopping, eating, entertainment and sightseeing facilities, all set within a working harbour.

On the V&A Waterfront marina, you’ll find some of South Africa’s best hotels as well the Two Oceans Aquarium.

Table Mountain

Table Mountain is Cape Town’s most famous landmark.

A quick spin by revolving cable car to the 1,086m summit will give the visitor a grand view of one of the most beautiful cities in the world and of Robben Island in the far distance.

Table Mountain is one of the world's most famous landmrks.

Fantastic Beaches

There’s a beachfront to suit every mood in Cape Town.

Clifton for those who want to see and be seen; Sandy Bay for the nudists; Muizenberg with its colourful bathing boxes for a good swim in warmer waters; Hout Bay is a colourful fishing harbour with a craft market; Kalk Bay for antique hunters and Boulder’s Beach at Simon’s Town which is home to a colony of Jackass penguins.

Robben Island

From the 17th to the 20th centuries, Robben Island served as a place of banishment, isolation and imprisonment. Why not take an emotional journey to the former prison of Robben Island where Nelson Mandela and other anti-apartheid activists spent many of their adult years.

The island is a world-class museum and was declared a World Heritage Site in 1999.

The Winelands

Just a 45 minute drive from Cape Town and you’re in the mountains and valleys of the winelands – all gracious gabled cape Dutch homesteads, cask-lined cellars, oak-treed towns and ultra fine restaurants.

The towns of Stellenbosch, Franschoek and Paarl are delightful and beg to be explored and savoured very slowly, like good wine.

The Garden Route

Road trips are a firm favourite with locals and international visitors. Not only does the area offer some of the most beautiful scenery in the world – mountains, oceans and views that go on forever – this coast is also famous for the finest South African hospitality. Called the Garden Route because of its wonderful vegetation, it certainly lives up to its name. Tangled forests extend into the purple mountains. Dramatic cliffs fall straight into the sea. In other places, long sandy beaches stretch for miles. Dolphins and whales are often spotted in the sheltered bays and the extensive wetlands are home to a large variety of birds.

Hermanus

An hour east of Cape Town lies the Overberg, marked by a coastline of beautiful beaches, picturesque seaside towns, an ancient lighthouse that has witnessed many a shipwreck (at Cape Agulhus) and a whale route that draws more whales and more watchers each year. At the heart of the Overberg, you will find the small town of Hermanus, famous for its fantastic sightings of Southern Right Whales from June until the end of October. Whales can be seen from the cliffs in the town centre (when they arrive) and the Old Harbour Museum contains several exhibitions which explain the whaling history of Hermanus.

The Cango Caves

Located near to the town of Oudtshoorn, the principal cave is one of the country's finest, best known and most popular tourist caves and attracts many visitors from overseas. Although the extensive system of tunnels and chambers go on for over four kilometers, only about a quarter of this is open to visitors, who may proceed into the cave only in groups supervised by a guide.

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