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Cape Town’s Night-Time Hotspots

Cape Town’s Night-Time Hotspots

Cape Town is a formidable venue for night-time revellers with its vast selection of bars, restaurants, live music venues and trendy night clubs.

The city itself is home to a consummate array of chic nightspots but so too is the Camps Bay strip and the V&A Waterfront, all within easy range of the luxurious waterfront apartments so popular with visitors.

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Cape Town – Hot Town, Summer In The City

Cape Town – Hot Town, Summer In The City

Just about everything written about cape Town is unanimous in one respect – the Mother city is one of the world’s hot spots – so it isn’t exactly a bolt from the blue that British Airways’ customers have rated Cape Town as one of their top 10 places to visit this Christmas.

Who wouldn’t want to visit a city that combines balmy summer days, an wonderfully impressive mountain that serves as a magnificent backdrop to just about all that one does in the popular city, incredible beaches, notable cultural attractions, and just for good measure, a couple of excellent wine routes within the city’s leafy suburbs?

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Cape Town Attractions

Cape Town Attractions

Cape Town Attractions

The Western Cape is a place of exceptional beauty with few areas in the world to rival it. Bestowed with two of Africa’s most dramatic landmarks, Table Mountain and Cape Point, the Western Cape is a floral paradise of rich fertile winelands, secluded bays, fine white sandy beaches and lush green coastal forests. Hugging the shores are picturesque villages overlooking some of the country’s finest beaches. In striking contrast to this, seperated by the Langeberg range, is the seemingly endless landscape of the semi-arid Karoo.

With its majestic Table Mountain backdrop, Cape Town is one of the most beautiful cities in the world. A harmonious blend of architectural styles reflects the tastes of dictates of the past as well as today’s more functional requirements. Between the high-rise office blocks, Edwardian and Victorian buildings have been meticulously preserved, and many outstanding examples of Cape Dutch architecture are found. Narrow, cobble stone streets and the strongly Islamic ambiance of the Bo-Kaap enhance the cosmopolitan ambiance of the city.

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