30 Things to do in Cape Town, South Africa Travel Guide
Join us as we visit Cape Town, South Africa in this travel guide on a mission to find the best things to do in Cape Town city.
The Mother City is a melting pot of cultures, cuisines, landscapes to tickle your every fancy. From imposing Table Mountain to colorful Bo-Kaap to pristine Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens you'll find Cape Town appeals to the culture vulture, foodie and outdoor enthusiast in ways few other cities can.
Cape Town is one of our favorite cities in the world and we're thrilled to show you why in this travel guide covering 30 things to do in Kaapstad / iKapa.
30 Things to do in Cape Town City Tour | South Africa Travel Guide
Intro - 00:01
1) Table Mountain Aerial Cableway - cable car ride to Table Mountain - 00:38
2) Table Mountain National Park for views of Cape Town - 01:01
3) Rooftop Views of Table Mountain - 01:28
4) Scootour of Signal Hill - 03:01
5) Honest Chocolate for Coffee and Chocolate - 03:30
6) Gin Tasting at Hope on Hopkins Distillery - 03:48
7) Victoria & Alfred Waterfront for eating and shopping - 04:38
8) V&A Waterfront Harbour Cruise - 05:05
9) Silo Hotel + Museum for lunch at The Granary Café - 05:15
10) Bo-Kaap for Cape Malay culture and food - 05:38
11) Cape Malay Food at Biesmiellah Restaurant - 05:56
12) City Sightseeing Cape Town Bus Tour - 08:33
13) Camps Bay for beaches, food and entertainment - 09:08
14) Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens - 09:32
15) Beau Constantia Wine Tasting - 10:11
16) Castle of Good Hope bastion fort - 11:28
17) District Six Museum - 12:27
18) Slave Lodge Museum - 12:57
19) South African National Gallery - 13:10
20) The Company's Garden park & heritage site - 13:22
21) Breakfast Brunch at The Company's Garden Restaurant - 13:50
22) Sidecar Tour of the Cape Peninsula - 15:03
23) Cape Point - Cape of Good Hope - 15:56
24) Penguins at Boulders Beach - 16:10
25) Greenmarket Square shopping in Cape Town - 16:28
26) Gatsby Sandwich at Miriam's Kitchen - 17:11
27) Bunny Chow Curry at the Eastern Food Bazaar - 20:28
28) International Cuisine in Cape Town (Peruvian Food at Charango) - 23:04
29) Street Art Tour of Cape Town with Juma's - 23:15
30) Nightlife on Kloof Street and Long Street - 23:30
Outro - 24:40
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Our visit Cape Town travel guide documentary covers some of the top attractions including a food guide (best attractions within the city limits and Western Cape), top adventure recreation and the city by day and night. We also cover off-the-beaten-path outdoor activities you won't find in a typical Cape Town tourism brochure, Cape Town itinerary or Cape Town, South Africa city tour.
30 Things to do in Cape Town, South Africa Travel Guide Video Transcript:
Today we’re taking you around one of our favourite cities: Cape Town, South Africa.
We first visited Cape Town in 2015 as the final stop on a monthlong trip across South Africa. However, by the time we arrived, we only had a couple of days to spare and the weather was less than ideal, so we didn’t get to see very much.
We knew we had to return to do the city justice and also film a proper Cape Town travel guide for you guys. This time around, we gave ourselves a full week to spare.
Our days were packed with sightseeing, and with visits to restaurants, chocolate shops, wineries and gin distilleries, so without further delay, let us show you 30 things do in Cape Town, South Africa.
And that’s a wrap for our week in Cape Town, South Africa. We hope you enjoyed following along and that this guide gave you a few ideas of things to see, do and eat in Cape Town. As always, if you have any other suggestions for fellow travellers, feel free to share those in the comments below. In the meantime, wishing you happy travels and see you next time!
This is part of our Travel in South Africa video series showcasing South African food, South African culture and South African cuisine.
Music by Mike Chino
Songs: Beyond and Dream Chaser
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communiTgrow's shared Cape Town Vision
Wescape is an integrated, mixed-use and holistic development located in the north-west area of Cape Town. We spoke to Capetonians to find out what they like about their city, what they would change and what they would want to see in their city's ideal future. The biggest asset we have in planning a development like Wescape is not just expert knowledge and innovative design, but the the contribution that ordinary people will make to cultivate a community through their daily lives
Wescape will play an important role in addressing the growing development pressure in the City of Cape Town. Based on the communiTgrow approach to the urban environment, Wescape will be a place where people can work, live, learn and grow in a healthy, self-sustaining community. Wescape will consist of 200,000 households and will include educational, healthcare and community facilities, employment opportunities and a sustainable, regenerative design. Wescape is the flagship project of communiTgrow.
The individuals featured in this film are not involved in the development of Wescape, do not work for communiTgrow, or any associated companies. They have not endorsed Wescape, and have solely offered their opinion on the city of Cape Town.
Participants:
Charmaine - Hairdresser | Sea Winds, Lavender Hill
David Donde - Truth Coffee Roasting | The Fringe District
Falko One - Grafiti Artist | Kenilworth
Sizwe Msutu - Actor | Delft
Pippa Dickson - The Deckle Edge | Hout Bay
Sandile Nkosinkulu - Navy Officer | Ilitha Park, Khayelitsha
Nils Hansen - Woodstock Cycleworks | Woodstock
Laura Drivdal - PhD student | Centre of Criminology, UCT
3,100 Hectares | 200,000 Homes | 300,000 Jobs | Green City | Walkable Design | Connected to Integrated Rapid Transport | Located on National N7 Highway
Welcome to South Africa: The Beautiful Africa that CNN dont show on TV
#SouthAfrica#Africa#Nigeria
High-speed rail is a type of rail transport that operates significantly faster than traditional rail traffic, using an integrated system of specialized rolling stock and dedicated tracks
South Africa is a country on the southernmost tip of the African continent, marked by several distinct ecosystems. Inland safari destination Kruger National Park is populated by big game. The Western Cape offers beaches, lush winelands around Stellenbosch and Paarl, craggy cliffs at the Cape of Good Hope, forest and lagoons along the Garden Route, and the city of Cape Town, beneath flat-topped Table Mountain
South Africa contains some of the oldest archaeological and human-fossil sites in the world.[23][24][25] Archaeologists have recovered extensive fossil remains from a series of caves in Gauteng Province. The area, a UNESCO World Heritage site, has been branded the Cradle of Humankind. The sites include Sterkfontein, one of the richest sites for hominin fossils in the world. Other sites include Swartkrans, Gondolin Cave Kromdraai, Coopers Cave and Malapa. Raymond Dart identified the first hominin fossil discovered in Africa, the Taung Child (found near Taung) in 1924. Further hominin remains have come from the sites of Makapansgat in Limpopo Province, Cornelia and Florisbad in the Free State Province, Border Cave in KwaZulu-Natal Province, Klasies River Mouth in Eastern Cape Province and Pinnacle Point, Elandsfontein and Die Kelders Cave in Western Cape Province.
These finds suggest that various hominid species existed in South Africa from about three million years ago, starting with Australopithecus africanus.[26] There followed species including Australopithecus sediba, Homo ergaster, Homo erectus, Homo rhodesiensis, Homo helmei, Homo naledi and modern humans (Homo sapiens). Modern humans have inhabited Southern Africa for at least 170,000 years.
Portuguese contacts
At the time of European contact, the dominant ethnic group were Bantu-speaking peoples who had migrated from other parts of Africa about one thousand years before. The two major historic groups were the Xhosa and Zulu peoples.
In 1487, the Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias led the first European voyage to land in southern Africa.[29] On 4 December, he landed at Walfisch Bay (now known as Walvis Bay in present-day Namibia). This was south of the furthest point reached in 1485 by his predecessor, the Portuguese navigator Diogo Cão (Cape Cross, north of the bay). Dias continued down the western coast of southern Africa. After 8 January 1488, prevented by storms from proceeding along the coast, he sailed out of sight of land and passed the southernmost point of Africa without seeing it. He reached as far up the eastern coast of Africa as, what he called, Rio do Infante, probably the present-day Groot River, in May 1488, but on his return he saw the Cape, which he first named Cabo das Tormentas (Cape of Storms). His King, John II, renamed the point Cabo da Boa Esperança, or Cape of Good Hope, as it led to the riches of the East Indies.[30] Dias' feat of navigation was later immortalised in Luís de Camões' Portuguese epic poem, The Lusiads (1572).
The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) was created in 1994,[126][127] as an all-volunteer military composed of the former South African Defence Force, the forces of the African nationalist groups (Umkhonto we Sizwe and Azanian People's Liberation Army), and the former Bantustan defence forces.[126] The SANDF is subdivided into four branches, the South African Army, the South African Air Force, the South African Navy, and the South African Military Health Service.[128] In recent years, the SANDF has become a major peacekeeping force in Africa,[129] and has been involved in operations in Lesotho, the DRC,[129] and Burundi,[129] amongst others. It has also served in multinational UN peacekeeping forces such as the UN Force Intervention Brigade for example.
South Africa is the only African country to have successfully developed nuclear weapons. It became the first country (followed by Ukraine) with nuclear capability to voluntarily renounce and dismantle its programme and in the process signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in 1991.[130] South Africa undertook a nuclear weapons programme in the 1970s[130] According to former state president FW de Klerk, the decision to build a nuclear deterrent was taken as early as 1974 against a backdrop of a Soviet expansionist threat.[131] South Africa is alleged to have conducted a nuclear test over the Atlantic in 1979,[132] although this is officially denied. Former president, FW de Klerk, maintained that South Africa had never conducted a clandestine nuclear test.[131] Six nuclear devices were completed between 1980 and 1990, but all were dismantled before South Africa signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in 1991
Aero Manyelo live @ Shimmy Beach Club, Waterfront, Cape Town opholamedia 20191205
#opholamedia Aero Manyelo live @ Shimmy Beach Club, Waterfront, Cape Town opholamedia 20191205
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Hansa party at baseline club
YFM and Hansa at Baseline club in Johannesburg South Africa
Filmed and edited by: Yfm Visual Arts Producer UMAR BRADLOW
20140711190936 Cape Town Youth non competitive concert
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Roman catholic church in Khayelitsha
On Sundays in Khayelitsha township (South Africa) Juraj and me we were attending the service of Roman Catholic Church, where they sing and dance a lot.
Ihlombe 2013- Shozholoza finale
lead by Amazwi Ka Nthu Choir, shows TTC participating
André Rieu - 'Tula Tula' live in South Africa, feat. Kimmy Skota
André Rieu & his Johann Strauss Orchestra performing Tula Tula live in South Africa.
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Taken from the DVD André Rieu - My African Dream.
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Original Lyrics
Tula Tu Tula baba Tula sana
Tul'umam 'uzobuya ekuseni
Tula Tu Tula baba Tula sana
Tul'umam 'uzobuya ekuseni
Hush my baby close your eyes
Time to fly to paradise
Till the sunlight brings you home
You must dream your dreams alone
Tula Tu Tula baba Tula sana
Tul'umam 'uzobuya ekuseni
Tula Tu Tula baba Tula sana
Tul'umam 'uzobuya ekuseni
English Lyrics
Hush my baby go to sleep
I'll be with you counting sheep
Dreams will take you far away
Sleep until the brea k of the day
Tula Tu Tula baba Tula sana
Tul'umam 'uzobuya ekuseni
Tula Tu Tula baba Tula sana
Tul'umam 'uzobuya ekuseni
Dudududududu (x4)
South African border war - bloody memories
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In the film 'Across the border', four white South African veterans who fought on the border of occupied Namibia and Angola in the 70s and 80s together with thousands of other young white conscript soldiers reflect on their terrifying adventures. They were part of the elite Crowbar unit, a death squad responsible for killing many people. During the South African Border War, they fought against what was known as the Rooi gevaar (red danger), the government term for the ANC and SWAPO liberation movements.
South Africa - Zulu Choir - Dressing room...Amazing!!!
The Young Zulu Warriors - in the dressing room, having some fun!
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World Youth Choir 2017 - Session in Pécs and concerts in Hungary
Spirits of Entrepreneurs South Africa Gala Awards
The Spirits of Entrepreneurs South African local winners were announced at a Gala Award's evening hosted by former Miss South Africa, Jo-Ann Strauss. Congratulations to Thembeka Setlogile, Sizwe Ndlovu and Tetlanyo Lekalake from The University of Cape Town.
World Youth Choir 2017 in Koper, Slovenia - Encore
World Youth Choir 2017
July 4-24, 2017
Concert Tour: Hungary-Serbia-Croatia-Bosnia and Herzegovina-Slovenia
St Francis of Assisi Concert Hall, Koper, Slovenia
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Encore
Zulu song, South Africa traditional
UKUTHALA
motivator (coductor): Ken Wakia (Kenya)
In-depth Interview with Athol Fugard
An In-depth interview with Athol Fugard, distinguished South African playwright, novelist, actor and director reported by Time magazine to be “the greatest active playwright in the English-speaking world”.
Recorded in the Karoo town of Nieu-Bethesda in 1992 by Tekweni TV Productions tekweni@iafrica.com
Chapters :
1. Why Fugard chooses playwriting to express himself. 00:02:18
2. The influence of the Karoo on Athol Fugard’s writing. 00:08:09
3. The influence of Tennessee Williams,O’Neill, Odets
Beckett and Faulkner on Fugard’s work 00:09:17
4. Athol Fugard says Existentialism is integral to his work.
00:14:18
5. “People are Living There “ with Bryceland was one
of the most joyous experiences in Fugard’s career. 00:21:27
6. Women in Fugard’s plays are more affirmative
than men. 00:22:40
7. Fugard says his limited sense of history is reflected
in some of his characters. 00:24:40
8. Fugard shares his thoughts on his strong sense of
pre-history and how it has affected his work. 00:26:43
9. Fugard defends his stand on writing about the realities of
black South Africans. 00:30:42
10. Influence of Grotowskian technique on Fugard’s work. 00:32:20
11. Fugard allows imput by actors during rehearsals of
his new plays. 00:35:45
12. “Master Harold and the Boys” is the most
autobiographical of Fugard’s plays. 00:37:16
13. Fugard on the autobiographical elements in
“Playland” ,“My children, my Africa”
“A Place with Pigs”and “Dimetos” 00:38:43
14. Living rather than portraying his character in
The Guest led to it taking over Fugard’s life. 00:45:48
15. “Playland” is Fugard’s metaphor for the imaginary
world that many white South Africans live in. 00:51:29
16. “My Children, my Africa” was Fugard’s response to the
School Boycott initiated by the ANC, which he describes
as one of this country’s greatest social disaster. 00:56:48
17. Athol Fugard says his plays are best seen in a theatre
rather than on film and TV. 01:02:00
18. Fugard found moving from stage to film as an actor in
“The Road to Mecca” challenging. 01:11:00
19. Fugard says he was also telling his own story in
“The Road to Mecca. 01:03:00
20. Fugard says he owes Yvonne Bryceland an
enormous debt of gratitude. 01:07:00
21.“The Island”, “Statement’s under the Immorality Act” and
“Sizwe Bansi is Dead” evolved from Fugard’s experimentation
in improvised theatre with the Serpent Players. 01:13:00
22. Fugard’s “No Good Friday” and “Nongogo” grew out
of the vibrancy of township life in Sophiatown. 01:17:00
23. In “The Blood Knot” Athol Fugard found his
own voiceas a writer. 01:19:00
24. Fugard has found working in the United States
highly stimulating. 01:24:00
25. Fugard’s difficult early years staging plays in
South Africa. 01:26:00
26. The somber mood in ‘Lesson From Aloes”,
reflects Fugard’s despair at South Africa’s
political situation in 1979. 01:28:00
27. Fugard warns of a new type of censorship
that views any art not subordinating itself
to a struggle, as irrelevant . 01:30:00
Street Talk Season 1 33: Langa High School
Nowadays boys…dont believe in safe ….whenever you want to have safe it means you are cheating or you have another boyfriend…but the thing is if you dont practice safe.
A group of Langa High seniors have produced a play about the trials and tribulations of kids from the rural areas trying to adapt to township life.
Camps Bay and Langa High School seniors talk about their aspirations in life and what the obstacles to their achieving them.
there are obvious power imbalances in just about every sphere of life…and I dont like to demonise men…..but I do think that we do alter ourselves to fit into those male power structure.
ccrc lawhill rowing aug 17
Meet the 2017 STS Lawhill Maritime Centre rowing team, and the incredibly dedicated Cape Coastal Rowing Club members who are their mentors and their funders! Please email capecoastalrowing@gmail if you wish to support this wonderful initiative.
Unique Zulu Choir from South Africa...Perfect!!!!
Just listen, thats South African Zulu Music for you
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