{"id":75,"date":"2026-07-28T23:12:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T23:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.touriza.org\/?touriza_city=cape-town"},"modified":"2026-09-17T14:19:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T14:19:38","slug":"cape-town","status":"publish","type":"touriza_city","link":"https:\/\/www.touriza.org\/?touriza_city=cape-town","title":{"rendered":"Cape Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Why go<\/h2>\n<p>Cape Town is arranged around Table Mountain, and the weather comes from whichever side the wind is on. Within an hour you can be in a vineyard, on a penguin beach, or on a cable car at 1,085m \u2014 which is exactly why people overstay.<\/p>\n<h2>Five things to do<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"rule-list\">\n<li>\n<div style=\"display:flex;gap:14px\"><span class=\"n\">01<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<h4>Table Mountain at first cable car<\/h4>\n<p class=\"small muted\" style=\"margin-top:4px\">Before the tablecloth cloud forms.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"display:flex;gap:14px\"><span class=\"n\">02<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<h4>Lion&#39;s Head at full moon<\/h4>\n<p class=\"small muted\" style=\"margin-top:4px\">Ninety minutes up, chains near the top.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"display:flex;gap:14px\"><span class=\"n\">03<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<h4>Boulders Beach penguins<\/h4>\n<p class=\"small muted\" style=\"margin-top:4px\">Boardwalks, no touching.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"display:flex;gap:14px\"><span class=\"n\">04<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<h4>Robben Island<\/h4>\n<p class=\"small muted\" style=\"margin-top:4px\">Book ahead; the guides are former prisoners.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"display:flex;gap:14px\"><span class=\"n\">05<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<h4>Kalk Bay harbour<\/h4>\n<p class=\"small muted\" style=\"margin-top:4px\">Snoek off the boat and second-hand bookshops.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Neighbourhoods<\/h2>\n<div class=\"grid g2\">\n<div class=\"panel\">\n<h4 style=\"border:0;padding:0;margin-bottom:6px\">City Bowl<\/h4>\n<p class=\"small muted\">Bo-Kaap&#39;s colours and the Company&#39;s Garden.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"panel\">\n<h4 style=\"border:0;padding:0;margin-bottom:6px\">Woodstock<\/h4>\n<p class=\"small muted\">Warehouse galleries and the Old Biscuit Mill.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"panel\">\n<h4 style=\"border:0;padding:0;margin-bottom:6px\">Constantia<\/h4>\n<p class=\"small muted\">The oldest wine estates in the southern hemisphere.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"panel\">\n<h4 style=\"border:0;padding:0;margin-bottom:6px\">Cape Peninsula<\/h4>\n<p class=\"small muted\">Chapman&#39;s Peak drive to the Cape of Good Hope.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Getting around<\/h2>\n<p>Buy the transport card on arrival \u2014 every city on this list has one, and it is cheaper than single fares within about four journeys. Walking covers more than the map suggests: most of the districts above are within thirty minutes of each other on foot.<\/p>\n<p>Taxis and ride apps are worth it late at night and when you are carrying luggage. Everything else is faster on the metro, the tram or the ferry, in that order.<\/p>\n<h2>Where to eat<\/h2>\n<p>The rule that holds in Cape Town is the rule that holds everywhere: eat at the busy place, at the hour the locals eat, and order the thing the kitchen makes most of. Reserve for dinner in the districts above; lunch rarely needs it.<\/p>\n<h2>Two days here<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Morning: Table Mountain at first cable car<\/li>\n<li>Afternoon: walk City Bowl<\/li>\n<li>Evening: Boulders Beach penguins<\/li>\n<li>Day two: Kalk Bay harbour<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mountain in the middle, two oceans either side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":123,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"touriza_continent":[4],"touriza_theme":[],"class_list":["post-75","touriza_city","type-touriza_city","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","touriza_continent-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.touriza.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/touriza_city\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.touriza.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/touriza_city"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.touriza.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/touriza_city"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touriza.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touriza.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.touriza.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/touriza_city\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206,"href":"https:\/\/www.touriza.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/touriza_city\/75\/revisions\/206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touriza.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.touriza.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"touriza_continent","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touriza.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftouriza_continent&post=75"},{"taxonomy":"touriza_theme","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.touriza.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftouriza_theme&post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}