The Mole
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Forgot to mention- take great care around the Cape Flats - Mitchell’s Plain and Khayalitsha - avoid them.
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[Travel] South Africa any tips please.
- Thread starter Lenny Rider
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Seagullspoons
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- Jul 31, 2024
- 13
If you like your steak and wine, Balthazar restaurant on the V&A Waterfront is the best I've ever had. Radisson Red Hotel in Cape Town V&A is decent. Stayed there a few times for work.
zuidgull
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Many good suggestions on this thread.
With 11 nights and flying into CT, I think I would focus on Cape and do something like.
2 nights in CT city bowl, waterfront or green point areas (visit Waterfront, Robben Island)
Then take flight to Gqeherba (PE) flysafair.co.za and get hire car (pref 4x4 e.g toyota fortuner - booked 1 way back to CT airport)
Go to game reserve in eastern cape for 2 nights e.g. Kariega.
The start journey back along garden route.
I would stop Plettenberg Bay for 2 nights, Kynsna for 1, Breed River Valley for 1 and ending up in Franshoek for 1 (La Petite Ferme would be my choice which I have not seen mentioned).
I would then spend 2 days back in CT but now in Newlands/Bishopcourt area and do the things that you want a car for Kirstenbosch Gardens, Simonstown/Boulders and Constantia (Constantia Glen is nice wine farm with good food and great views)
Returning with car back to airport to return home in time for Chelsea.
I hope this helps
With 11 nights and flying into CT, I think I would focus on Cape and do something like.
2 nights in CT city bowl, waterfront or green point areas (visit Waterfront, Robben Island)
Then take flight to Gqeherba (PE) flysafair.co.za and get hire car (pref 4x4 e.g toyota fortuner - booked 1 way back to CT airport)
Go to game reserve in eastern cape for 2 nights e.g. Kariega.
The start journey back along garden route.
I would stop Plettenberg Bay for 2 nights, Kynsna for 1, Breed River Valley for 1 and ending up in Franshoek for 1 (La Petite Ferme would be my choice which I have not seen mentioned).
I would then spend 2 days back in CT but now in Newlands/Bishopcourt area and do the things that you want a car for Kirstenbosch Gardens, Simonstown/Boulders and Constantia (Constantia Glen is nice wine farm with good food and great views)
Returning with car back to airport to return home in time for Chelsea.
I hope this helps
Swiss perfection
New member
- Jul 27, 2018
- 11
Camps Bay Area just outside Cape town, is great for restaurants and very scenic. We did a night in the vineyard and pairing etc. Drive down to Cape of good hope is worth it, Frans hook & Bolder for the Penguins and Baboons roaming the roads like Longleat on steroids .Good restaurant at 2 oceans meet on the tip of the Cape .Drove to St Francis Bay via Garden route, then up to Pumba safari lodge ,home via Port Elizbeth and Joberg.