Top 10 Experiences in Cape Town

Cape Town's working harbour precinct has reinvented itself as a world-class destination of restaurants, museums, artisan markets, and the Two Oceans Aquarium, all set against mountain backdrops.

The former maximum-security prison where Nelson Mandela spent 18 of his 27 years of imprisonment is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, its tours led by former political prisoners.

The vibrantly painted 18th-century houses on the steep cobblestone streets of the Bo-Kaap reflect the heritage of Cape Malay Muslims who were brought here as slaves and shaped Cape cuisine.

Draped across the eastern slopes of Table Mountain, this world-famous garden protects fynbos biome flora and hosts summer sunset concerts on its immaculate lawns.

The rocky southwestern tip of the Cape Peninsula, within Table Mountain National Park, offers dramatic ocean cliffs, rare fynbos, and resident baboons and ostriches roaming the coastal scrubland.

Just outside Simon's Town, a thriving colony of African penguins has colonised this sheltered granite-boulder beach, allowing visitors to observe them nesting and swimming at close range.

This poignant museum documents the forced removal of 60,000 residents under apartheid from the District Six neighbourhood in the 1970s, preserving memory through maps, photographs, and personal testimonies.

The wine estates of Stellenbosch, Franschhoek, and Paarl — just an hour from Cape Town — produce world-class Pinotage, Chenin Blanc, and Méthode Cap Classique amid mountain-ringed vineyards.

One of the world's most spectacular coastal roads clings to sheer cliffs above the Atlantic, offering twelve kilometres of hairpin bends and ocean vistas between Hout Bay and Noordhoek.

Cape Town's working harbour precinct has reinvented itself as a world-class destination of restaurants, museums, artisan markets, and the Two Oceans Aquarium, all set against mountain backdrops.

The former maximum-security prison where Nelson Mandela spent 18 of his 27 years of imprisonment is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, its tours led by former political prisoners.

The vibrantly painted 18th-century houses on the steep cobblestone streets of the Bo-Kaap reflect the heritage of Cape Malay Muslims who were brought here as slaves and shaped Cape cuisine.

Draped across the eastern slopes of Table Mountain, this world-famous garden protects fynbos biome flora and hosts summer sunset concerts on its immaculate lawns.

The rocky southwestern tip of the Cape Peninsula, within Table Mountain National Park, offers dramatic ocean cliffs, rare fynbos, and resident baboons and ostriches roaming the coastal scrubland.

Just outside Simon's Town, a thriving colony of African penguins has colonised this sheltered granite-boulder beach, allowing visitors to observe them nesting and swimming at close range.

This poignant museum documents the forced removal of 60,000 residents under apartheid from the District Six neighbourhood in the 1970s, preserving memory through maps, photographs, and personal testimonies.

The wine estates of Stellenbosch, Franschhoek, and Paarl — just an hour from Cape Town — produce world-class Pinotage, Chenin Blanc, and Méthode Cap Classique amid mountain-ringed vineyards.

One of the world's most spectacular coastal roads clings to sheer cliffs above the Atlantic, offering twelve kilometres of hairpin bends and ocean vistas between Hout Bay and Noordhoek.