How to Go to Cape Town

The fastest air travel is done from Mumbai to Cape Town. Delhi and Bangalore have frequent flights to Cape Town airport as well, but none of these flights are direct or nonstop. The best Mumbai to Cape Town flight is by Ethiopian Airlines via Addis Ababa in 13 hours 10 minutes. The same airline also has the fastest Delhi to Cape Town flight in 14 hours 35 minutes. There are 15+ hours Emirates flights from all Mumbai, Bangalore and Delhi to Cape Town via Dubai on a regular basis. Another option from Delhi is 15 hours 50 minutes Air Mauritius flight via Mauritius Islands. For those who have plans to visit Johannesburg first, you will get more than 30 direct nonstop 2 hour flights between the two cities for easy commute.

The main station of Cape Town is connected with Johannesburg and Pretoria with daily trains and Durban, Bloemfontein and East London with weekly ones. The famous Blue Train, considered to be one of the world’s most luxurious rails, runs between Pretoria and Cape Town on a 27-hours long journey.

Cape Town is the origin of three national roads – N1 which connects the city with Johannesburg, Bloemfontein, Pretoria and Zimbabwe, N2 which connects it with Port Elizabeth, Durban and East London and N7 connecting it with Northern Cape Province and Namibia. There are multiple bus routes along these highways that one can avail run by operators like Greyhound, Translux, Intercape Mainliner and SA Roadlink. There is no direct route for the India to Cape Town distance, of course.