The Bo-Kaap
One of Cape Town's oldest residential areas, its streets characterized by colourful nineteenth-century Cape Dutch and Georgian terraces.

Golden Lion
Highlight of the Gold of Africa Museum, a major collection of historic African works of art.

Robben Island
The infamous island prison that was Nelson Mandela's home for nearly two decades.

Rotate up Table Mountain
Take the revolving cable car to the tabletop.

Sundowners on the Atlantic seaboard
Grab a bottle of Cape bubbly and make for Clifton, Camps Bay or Llandudno.

Train to Simon's Town
The Metrorail train from Muizenberg follows the False Bay coast, just metres from the crashing surf, with stunning mountain views across the water.

Swim with penguins
Boulders Beach offers wonderful bathing and is home to a colony of protected African penguins.

Freewheel to the southern tip
Cycle to Cape Point, the dramatic rocky southernmost point on the Cape Peninsula.