Western Cape Miscellaneous

Animal Sanctuaries

See the Pallingat Eels

Overnight? Stay in Still Bay
Visit the Stilbaai Tourism Bureau housed in the Palinggat Homestead in Stilbaai where you will see the only tame eels in South Africa fed in the fountain adjacent ...

Nightlife & Theatre

Evita se Perron

Overnight? Stay in Darling
It is virtually a sacrilege, if anywhere in the vicinity of Darling (and why wouldn't you visit the pretty, quaint little town with its many attractions just an ...

Farm Stalls & Markets / Cafés & Eateries

Houw Hoek Farm Stall

Overnight? Stay in Grabouw
This delightful farm stall greets you like an old friend as you travel between the Overberg's majestic Houw Hoek mountain pass and Cape Town. The authentic South ...

Family Entertainment

Find Your Rhythm - Try Drumming

Overnight? Stay in Cape Town Central
Find your rhythm to the beat of your own drum. Stomp your feet in 'rain boots' like a traditional African dancer and learn the Gumboot Dance. Create dynamic music ...

Nightlife & Theatre

Marimba Restaurant & Cigar Bar

Overnight? Stay in Foreshore
A safari dining experience can be enjoyed at Marimba Restaurant. See Africa in the décor. Hear Africa in the ambient live music. Feel Africa in the rhythm. Taste ...

Family Entertainment / Cafés & Eateries

Ahoy! Mariner's Wharf

Overnight? Stay in Hout Bay
Mariner's Wharf meets the ocean at the end of Hout Bay beach. Built on a pier this habour front emporium brings to shore a seafood bistro, a maritime themed ...

Family Entertainment / Nature Reserves

Woodcutters Journey

Overnight? Stay in Storms River
A specially designed off road vehicle in camouflaged green with a yellow canopy leads you to the resting spot of historic wagons that once travelled the forest ...

Family Entertainment

The Sea Point Promenade

Overnight? Stay in Sea Point
The Cape Town Atlantic Seaboard has a spectacular beachfront Promenade stretching the length of Mouille Point and Sea Point. A broad paved sea-side contour path ...

Cultural Sites / Cultural Villages / Family Entertainment

Tribal discoveries at !Khwa ttu

Overnight? Stay in Yzerfontein
!Khwa ttu ('water pan') is an 850 Ha expression of the San kinship. This indigenous Southern African minority group has only 6700 San people living in South Africa ...

Arts & Crafts / Sight Seeing

Cape Point Ostrich Farm

Overnight? Stay in Cape Point
Close to where the two Ocean's meet is a bird farm with the world's largest flightless birds who despite their 2m wingspan are aided by their two claws to be the ...

Lighthouses / Family Entertainment

Slangkop Lighthouse

Overnight? Stay in Kommetjie
Ever wanted to shake hands with a real live Lighthouse Keeper? Now is your chance. The winding road that slithers along the Atlantic coastline leading to Kommetjie ...

Sight Seeing / Wheelchair Friendly

Meander along Jager Walk

Overnight? Stay in Fish Hoek
Fish Hoek (Fish 'Corner') sits between ocean and mountain. This long white beach parallel to a working railway line ends in Catwalk that leads towards Simon's Town ...

Buy & Braai a Cape Fish

Overnight? Stay in Kalk Bay
Chokka, Snoek, Red Roman and Yellowtail are all local Cape ocean fish that are the pride of fisherman and the prize on the grill. Kalk Bay Harbour is a charming ...

Lighthouses / Monuments

Green Point Lighthouse

Overnight? Stay in Mouille Point
Ever had that dream where you follow an old man clutching a rusty key dangling loosely on weathered key ring along a stormy beach crashing with waves. Then you push ...

Lighthouses

Cape Columbine Lighthouse

Overnight? Stay in Paternoster
As far as lighthouses go, Cape Columbine is young. Built only in 1936, it was the last manned lighthouse constructed, and it rests on a windswept coastline within ...