Places to Visit in Cape Town

It’s a flat-topped mountain beside a prominent landmark, Table Mountain National Park and overlooks the city of Cape Town in South Africa. The park is one of the most interesting places to visit in Cape Town where more than 4.2 million people visit every year and get to learn about the flora and fauna of the island.

This botanical garden is located in the eastern foot of Table mountain in Cape Town and is one of the 10 national gardens that covers six different biomes. The garden is one of the most interesting places to go in Cape Town where you would find numerous indigenous plants. The plants have been stored there for the purpose of preservation since 1913 when it was founded.

The historic Noon Gun is located over the Signal Hill which consists of a pair of black powder Dutch Naval Guns. You would see the pair of guns which were stationed by the East India Company on its arrival at the hill. The noon guns are known for the muzzle sound they produce.

The beautiful beaches of Clifton and Camps Bay are the top places to go in Cape Town which are located 6km away from the city centre. The bay attracts loads of visitors every evening on white sandy beaches. It’s a perfect place for all the adventurous sports and has numerous trendy bars and cafes to hang out at.

The waterfront is a 123 hectare destination located on the Table Bay Harbour. The harbour is the oldest in South Africa where the iconic Cape Wheel is stationed. The Victoria & Alfred complex houses more than 450 retail outlets of different kinds like fashion, jewellery, leather goods and audio-visual equipment.

Enjoy the beautiful colony of African Penguins at the Boulders beach which is one of the most amazing Cape Town Tourist attractions. The beach is a sheltered beach and forms part of the territory of the Table Mountain National Park. You can visit the site to take a glimpse of these penguins which started residing at the granite boulders beach in 1982.

It’s a peaceful and serene island located in Table Bay which was used as a prison from the late 17th century until 1996. It’s the same place where the legendary leader Nelson Mandela was prisoned before the fall of apartheid. The island has a strategic location due to which it had been used by Portuguese, English and Dutch navigators as a camp place before moving eastwards.

One of the top places to visit in Cape Town, the Cape Point is a mountainous and scenic platform which is about 30 kms in length. It has a rugged sandstone ridge and a large lighthouse at its highest peak. At the cape point you would witness the most powerful lighthouse on the South African coast which itself is a famous tourist spot.

It’s a bastion fort built in the 17th century in Cape Town on the coastline of Table Bay. The castle was built by Dutch East India company and is one of the most important historical places to go in Cape Town. It’s the oldest building standing on ground in South Africa which was designed by Jan van Riebeeck in 1652.

The area of Bo Kaap was a racially segregated area situated on the Signal Hill. It was formerly called Malay Quarter as it was center of Cape malay culture and has the historic Nurul Islam Mosque located in its premises. It’s one of the must places to visit in Cape Town where you would see the beautiful coloured homes and cobble stoned streets.

The complex of the museum is located in a hospital at the suburb of Cape Town. It's the famous institution where the world's first surgery of heart transplantation was successfully completed. One must take a tour of this one of the important Cape Town tourist attractions which is laid out in the Old Main Building of the Groote Schuur Hospital.

The museum was founded in 1994 as a memorial documenting the lives of the inhabitants of the six districts of the city who were forced out of their homes in the 1970s. An important place to recollect the history of discriminatory practice apartheid in the country, the musuem is amongst the top places to visit in Cape Town.

It’s a mountain in Cape Town located between Table mountain and Signal Hill at a height of about 669 metres above the sea level. As you hike to the peak point of Lion’s Head you would witness the stunning views of the city and Atlantic Sea. The full moon views from the hilltop makes it one of the amazing Cape Town tourist attractions.

The aquarium is located at the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront in Cape Town which was inaugurated in 1995 and has several galleries and items on display. It has exhibits on the marine life of South Africa’s two oceans, the Indian and Atlantic Ocean like sharks, jellyfishes, penguins, fishes and turtles.

It’s the only seaside suburb of Cape Town which is situated between Signal Hill and the Atlantic Ocean. The sea point is famous for its beaches which are covered with mussel shells and a perfect place to spend some relaxing hours. The site is one of the few places where granite, an igneous rock, had replaced the malmesbury rock.