Cape Town Travel Guide

Explore the beautiful country of Cape Town

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Cape Town is a nerve centre of South African tourism in a sense. After Johannesburg, it is the most visited city, and home to the iconic Table Mountain overlooking the city like an alert sentinel. This peak is almost like the symbol of Cape Town, which is lovingly called the Mother City by the locals. Hiking, trekking, abseiling, mountain climbing and cable car riding are the fun-filled activities that the slopes of the Table Mountain offer, among other things. But that is not all Cape Town has on plate.  With the most beautiful beaches like Grotto, Muizenberg and the Clifton Bay, serene hiking trails with sunset points like Chapman’s Peak Drive, water sports opportunities like shark diving in a cage, surfing and snorkelling, and legendary landmarks like Robben Island and A&V Waterfront around, Cape Town is a one of its kind destination.

Here are some of the important things you need to know about Cape Town before going, in brief. Consult a Cape Town travel guide to know more about the city, its culture, cuisine and what all it has to offer in detail.

Weather in Cape Town: Cape Town enjoys a warm Mediterranean climate with equal summers and winters. Cape Town weather during the warm months is hot and dry, with temperature reaching the 30s and 40s gradually. Despite the warmth, the attraction of beach holidays brings in a whole lot of tourists during summer. Winters are cool and wet with quite a bit of rainfall. Overall, Cape Town climate is suitable for visit all around the year, as it never quite becomes extreme in nature.

Nightlife in Cape Town: Longmarket Street, Long Steet, Bree Street – these are the places to find popular night time haunts in Cape Town. Among famous bars of Long Street there is Beerhouse, Honest Chocolate, Fiction Bar, Aces and Spades and Coco. For a more elegant crowd, visit Madison Square and the posh celebrity haunt, Saint.

Shopping in Cape Town: Victoria and Alfred Waterfront is one of the most posh shopping areas in Cape Town, followed by Canal Walk and Greenmarket Square. From global brands to local African curios, you will find everything in the shopping centres of Woodstock. Among Cape Town shopping malls, Cavendish Square and Willowbridge are quite famous and deserve a visit. Even if you do not shop from everywhere, simply window shopping is very much rewarding.

Food in Cape Town: While visiting, eating Cape Town food which is indigenous to the city is very important for the experience. On the must-have list there is the Capetonian staple Gatsby – a type of sandwich, Bilton – a type of dried meat, Bobotie – meatloaf with raisins, Boerewors – traditionally barbecued sausages and Koeksisters – twisted African pastries for the sweet tooth.

Festivals in Cape Town: Knowing Cape Town facts before visiting the city will tell you about the various festivals the city celebrates. Other than the usual Christmases and New Years, the International Jazz Festival, Whale Festival in Hermanus, Up the Creek, Kirstenbosch Summer Concert are some which you should not miss at all.

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Guru's 10 days trip to Cape Town

The trip was well organized and the local drivers and guide allocated for our trip were very professional. The coordination by Travel triangle was flawless and had a great user experience. I will recommend to all my friends to utilize the services

Guru Bangalore

S's 5 days trip to Cape Town

The team at TravelLykke have been very professional in their approach right through. They have been very patient and understanding of the requirements and accommodative to all kinds of doubts and queries and options too. Fairly transparent in the dealings and have a good set of on-ground contacts in S Africa who too have been professional and on time without delays and exceptions. A suggestion: there were some legs where we were informed we need to take Uber (to & fro Robben Island & Table Top Mountain). For the kind of spends done by us (Rs 3 Lakhs +) overall, it would have been helpful if these too could have been accommodated in the package. It is the nuisance value of having to book, wait etc. Also more minute detailing of the Full day Cape Peninsula tour could have been share earlier - we got it on landing from the local guide and it was very educative. Why not share this ahead of time? Some travel agencies give a backpack or travel kit (the amount of Rs 3 Lakhs is HUGE) with your branding. In this case it is singularly absent. Wonder why? We stayed in 3 hotels - Emerald Guest house in Johannesburg (Rating Poor to Good only); Kruger Park Adventure Lodge ( Excellent); Holiday Inn Express at Cape Town (Excellent).

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Mayankmaki's 9 days trip to Cape Town

The trip was very well organised and all our requirements were met. We had issues due to flight delays and we were late for one tour, our travel planner Mrs Prerna was very helpful and proactive to adjust the tours to accommodate everything. From last minute hotel booking to providing rental car , she was quick to respond and also regular reminders before trips to ensure smooth communication between us and South African operators. Would surely recommend their services The views with clouds sliding in all around the mountains and ocean at the cape point during the cape peninsula tour.

Mayankmaki Mumbai

Chinthabinoy's 4 days trip to Cape Town

We had an amazing time at SA. Prerna ( Offbeat trippers) arranged everything as per our request.

Chinthabinoy

Rajani's 7 days trip to Cape Town

We had an amazing trip to South Africa. We would like to thank Mr. Inderjit from Flyocity for planning our itinerary and being available for resolving all queries. We had no problems in a foreign country.

Rajani Damani Guwahati

Jennifer's 11 days trip to Cape Town

Plan your destinations efficiently arranged a wonderful trip to South Africa and Seychelles.We had in total 12 days travel itinerary. Accommodation, food, intercity transfers,sight seeing were well arranged. No blunders at all. Highly recommend their services for these destinations. Well planned by Sandeep.

Jennifer B Mumbai

Aniruddha's 9 days trip to Cape Town

We had an amazing trip to South Africa. It is a beautiful country to visit with very hospitable people around. Everything went well without any hiccups. The hotels, cab drivers and other details were well planned by Nikhil from Besten/MK Holidays, special thanks to him. Some elements which can be improved were the visits planned during our stay at Knysna as they were quite some distance away from our hotel. Will definitely recommend Travel Triangle to others for planning their trips.

Aniruddha Jasu Ashburn

Sonaleeka's 6 days trip to Cape Town

Its good ..but i did not had same experience as travel factory they used to provide us our day activity one day ahead.but hear besten tour everything is clumsy and messy every time we have to call our agent to get the details through out the tour.and some othe place we have to pay from our pocket even after paying for the pacakge. We had a very bad experience with besten tour.Half of things which promised not taked care by the vendor.We paid extra from our pocket for some of the tickets (activity) even after paying the complete amont..vendor promised he will pay us back..but we are still chasing behind him.This is the worst experience I ever had...I will never reccomend any one neither nor besten tour..learn something from travel factory

Sonaleeka Dash Bangalore

Rajesh's 11 days trip to Cape Town

Was a unique experience in the game safari and capetown. Sandeep was extremely help and was always reachable. Thoroughly enjoyed the whole experience.

Rajesh Kazankodath Pune

Yanshuk's 8 days trip to Cape Town

everything went very well as planned. hotels were awesome their locations, clean, services & all (except soho hotel in sun city. service was not goodas well as room was not as per expectation). overall trip was awesome. A big thanks to our travel agent Mr. Inderjit (flyocity trip planners pvt. ltd.) & travel triangle....

Yanshuk Sharma New delhi

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As the weather in Cape Town keeps varying, it is advised to pack trousers, light colored clothes, long-sleeved shirts, cap, and sunglasses.

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