Places Muizenberg to Visit and See 80 More Worthwhile Places to See and Visit, Both Well Known and Less Known
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Please support our advertisers who make this free guide possible. 1 FREE Cape Town EDITION 3 Whether as a Cape of Storms or of Hope, or for that matter both, there was total agreement on both the conscious and the instinctive levels that we owe our origin GATEWAYGUIDES at that Cape to its being the perfect half-way house between East and West. (Sir Lourens van der Post (1906-1996), ‘The Ambivalent Cape’, Yet Being Someone Other) More Places Muizenberg to visit and see 80 more worthwhile places to see and visit, both well known and less known. in Cape Town and False Bay Cape Town Stadium the Cape Peninsula Chavonnes Battery 1 Bakoven Beach 11 Red Hill – Kleinplaas Dam 21 Table Bay Irma Stern Museum Completed in 1726, this battery was the first coastal defence If the crowds of Camps Bay and Clifton beaches are not your This is one of the best places on the Peninsula for flat, easy Cape Point Chavonnes Battery to deter seaborne aggressors. Named after Governor Maurice scene and you are looking for some ‘me space’, Bakoven walking with no civilisation in sight. Before the ‘70s there was Fort Wynyard Baxter Theatre The Noon Gun Treaty Tree 66 80 Pasque de Chavonnes, it was built on the rocks at the water’s (named after one of the rocks that looks like a traditional a ‘non-white’ community here, but since the destruction of Green Point Urban Park Welgelegen Rustenburg House 1 30 min (R27) 2 edge. It mounted 16 large cannon, which enabled its gunners to baking oven), with its three small beaches and granite boulders, apartheid only ruined homes remain. The main attractions are Mowbray Mapping Museum bring accurate fire to bear on any hostile ships entering the bay. offers the quieter beachgoer a space in the sun. Bakoven was the dam and Grootkop (‘big hill’). Red Hill is also a premier Signal Hill Cape Town Centre Groote Schuur Estate 10 N1 to Paarl The battery was partly demolished and buried in 1860 in what originally a British military muster point for the defence of the boulder-climbing area. Location: M66, Red Hill, first right 5 2 55 KLOOF STREET is now the V&A Waterfront, the oldest working harbour in South Africa. In 1999, it was colony from the sea and is credited with having had permanent, occupied structures after Pine Haven. Parking area at entrance to Kleinplaas Dam Road. Information: Sea Point Promenade 1 Science Centre excavated and conserved in a spectacular museum, the only place where you can touch long before Camps Bay (mid-1800s), with a small fishing harbour (now an NSRI station). http://www.cape-hike.co.za/kleinplaas-dam-trail/ Price: free 3 Intaka Island Sea Point Platteklip Contact Zone the sand of the original Cape Town shoreline. Information: www.chavonnesbattery.co.za Information: http://bungalows.co.za/about/bakoven-clifton-glen-beach-heritage/ Sea Point Pool 6 4 68-80 at Century City • Tel: 021 416 6230 Location: V&A Waterfront Price: small fee bakoven-heritage/ Location: Bakoven, off Victoria Road Price: free 22 7 10 INDIAN RESTAURANT Froggy Pond Dolerite Dyke 8 80 M5 This is one of the finest and most accessible examples of a 7 65 Oude Molen We present to you the legacy of India’s Cape Town Stadium 2 Victoria Road (Twelve Apostles) 12 8 10 130-million-year-old dolerite dyke (like volcanic rock) that Lion’s Head 6 5 64 Rondebosch Common most ancient culinary heritage, as we take you on a journey Cape Town Stadium hosted eight matches during the 2010 This short stretch of road between Camps Bay and Llandudno Pinelands has intruded into the much older (540 million years) granite. 61 where the fusion of skillfully spiced dishes, with it’s FIFA World Cup™. This included the quarter-final between has to be one of the most scenic city drives in the world. This 9 67 Rondebosch Fountain 9 mesmerising flavours, textures & rich colours, D ABOUT Just next to this on the sea side of the rocks you will notice N2 to Airport N C Germany and Argentina, as well as the semi-final between road runs through a national park and follows the path of the Table Mountain U A 2 63 are sure to be unforgettable experience. O R what seems like a low wall running across the rocks: this is Devil’s 62 Sahara Park Newlands R S the Netherlands and Uruguay. The stadium seats 55 000. It original Khoi cattle track to Hout Bay, which Thomas Bain, A another intrusion but this time made up of a slightly younger Peak 60 now hosts a variety of soccer and rugby events, as well as the renowned pass and road builder, converted into a road in 59 58 55 Newlands Rugby Stadium CAR HIRE granite that pushed up through cracks. These low walls or ridges are known as Aplites. 10 international music concerts. Location: Green Point Tours: 1887. Two stopover points along the route are Oudekraal (‘old Newlands Forest 57 54 Information: http://sajg.geoscienceworld.org/content/114/3-4/335 Location: Froggy 53 Rondebosch visit www.stadiumcapetown.co.za or Tel: 021 430 7300 or 021 417 0101 Price: free kraal’) named after the last home of the Peninsula Khoi tribe in 1713 before smallpox and 2 hr 17 min (Gansbaai) S 56 Stellenberg 11 O U C A Pond, on the rocks between the two main beaches Price: free The Round House 51 52 T H A F R I measles reduced their numbers to the point of no return and beautiful Llandudno Beach, Green Point Urban Park 3 11 10 Maynardville Park & Open Air Theatre which was inhabited by the Khoi for hundreds of years but only became a township in 23 Back Table This area was once the site of a wheatfield experiment and was Windmill Beach 50 1903. Location: Between Camps Bay and Llandudno Price: free This is one of those stunning little beaches surrounded by The Pipe Track later used for grazing cattle, but it was only in 1806 when the Claremont large granite boulders creating a calm pool for swimming and Liesbeek Trail Wynberg Village British started racing horses here and holding yachting regattas Hout Bay Sand Dunes 13 Bakoven Beach 48 nooks and crannies for exploring. This is a very safe beach for on the vlei that ‘Green Point Common’ came to be associated For something different how about a walk on the largest Orange Kloof 49 families, although in 1901 the first recorded shark attack in William Herschel Obelisk with recreation. It has also been as a military encampment and sand dune on the Cape Peninsula with beautiful views 12 47 South Africa took place here when a Boer POW was attacked Alphen Green Belt from1899-190 as a Boer POW camp. This new park, opened in overlooking Sandy Bay? This dune once stretched from Constantia Nek 46 while bathing. (The golf course above this beach was a POW M6 2011, has a Biodiversity Garden designed by Marijke Hönig and a large area for recreation, Hout Bay Beach all the way to Sandy Bay, before the 1950s 11 camp during the Boer War.) Information: http://sharkattackfile.net/spreadsheets/ suitable for all ages. It is wheelchair friendly. Location: Green Point Time: 07h00–19h00 obsession with development, which destroyed the natural Constantia Kramat Wynberg Camps Bay: Shop 4, The Promenade, Victoria St, Camps Bay • Tel: 021 438 4555 pdf_directory/1901.07.30-Chandler.pdf Location: Links Crescent, off Bellevue Road, M63 daily Information: http://www.gprra.co.za/green-point-urban-park.html Price: free flow of sand and left the dune a fraction of its original size. Victoria Road 44 Uitsig Constantia: Shop 17, Old Constantia Village, Constantia • Tel: 021 794 7200 Simon’s Town (next to the Simon’s Town Country Club) Price: free 45 Old Main Road Location: From Victoria Road, Hout Bay, turn up Helgarda Road, into Edgar Road and 43 Simonstown: Harbour Bay Mall Noon Gun 4 Hout Bay Sand Dunes M3 then into Eustegia Road, all the way up to the top (parking lot is on the left) Price: free SAS Assegaai Submarine Museum 24 2 Takei Forest Web: www.therajindianfood.co.za The Raj the_raj_restaurantsj The daily firing of the noon gun is Cape Town’s oldest This is one of only twenty submarine museums in the world continuing tradition, and the two guns used are the oldest guns Bay Harbour Market 14 42 3 and the first in Africa. This French Daphne-class submarine Mariners Wharf Hout Bay Manganese Mine in the world in daily use. This practice started in 1806 as a time Once a derelict fish factory, in 2011 this space was transformed, 13 41 Retreat was one of three that served the South African Navy from 40 signal for ships at anchor; in 1902 the guns were moved to the thanks to the dream of two friends, into one of the most sought- Constantia Glen 37 1970 to 2003. She is 58 m long and had a complement of Lion Battery on Signal Hill were they have remained ever since. after indoor markets in Cape Town. This is the place to enjoy Steenberg Tokai 51. Her main weaponry was 12 x 550 mm torpedo tubes. The loading of the gun is undertaken by the South African Navy live music, taste a variety of foods and pick up some interesting Information: http://www.navy.mil.za/museum_submarine/ Buitenverwachting 39 38 but it is fired by the South African Astronomical Observatory, 6.5 km away.