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Cape Town holidays

July 2024

  • Two sleek seals on a beach bare their teeth at each other

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    ‘Everyone was paddling to get away’: seals with rabies alarm South Africa’s surfers

    Seals have been biting people in the first big outbreak of the disease in marine mammals, writes Nick Dall in Cape Town

July 2018

  • In reach of the city … writer, and swimmer, Graham Little in the water off Robben Island. Cape Town lies in the background.

    The Freedom Swim: from Mandela’s Robben Island to the Cape Town shore

    The Mandela centenary features many tributes and events but our writer found his own way to celebrate Madiba’s legacy – a 7.5km Freedom Swim from Robben Island to Cape Town

October 2017

  • Street art in Woodstock, Cape Town, South Africa.

    Free world
    Street art adds gloss to Cape Town's boho Woodstock area

    This youthful and bohemian neighbourhood and foodie hotspot has become an open air gallery for giant, colourful murals

September 2017

  • The Thomas Heatherwick-designed Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town.

    On the radar
    'Africa's Tate Modern' – Cape Town’s Zeitz-Mocaa gallery opens

    The largest contemporary art museum in Africa opens on Friday as a ‘platform for Africans to tell their own story’

November 2016

  • Smitswinkel Bay

    The world's best hidden beaches: Cape Town

  • V&A Waterfront, Cape Town, South Africa.

    10 of the best places to eat in Cape Town, South Africa

August 2016

  • Jane Dunford pops up on her board in Muizenberg, South Africa

    Become a surf instructor in 10 weeks

    A 10-week surf safari and volunteering programme along South Africa’s coast culminates in an instructor’s qualification that could set you up for life. We join the new intake

June 2016

  • Faldela Tolker Malay Cookery Course

    The foodie traveller
    Cooking the Cape Malay way in South Africa

    In Cape Town, a local chef gives cookery lessons in a cuisine that combines African, Malaysian and Indonesian flavours to delicious effect

May 2016

  • Two Oceans Marathon - Hout Bay view from Chapman’s Peak

    The running blog
    Running the 35-mile Two Oceans: distance running South African-style

    The Two Oceans – billed as the world’s most beautiful marathon – takes in spectacular views of the Atlantic and Indian oceans on a circuit of Cape Town’s Table Mountain. Nick Mead experiences an ultra with a big city feel

April 2016

  • Dinners sit around a large, circular communal table eating barbecue food at Mzoli’s Place, Gugulethu, Cape Town.

    A great little place I know
    Barbecue and beats in Cape Town’s Gugulethu township

    Tina Walsh loves the party atmosphere of Mzoli’s, an open-air barbecue joint and bar that draws huge crowds of Capetonians

February 2016

  • Daytime aerial view of Cape Town with Table Mountain in the background.

    Alternative South Africa
    The alternative city guide to Cape Town, South Africa

  • A car on Chapman’s Peak Drive, Cape Town

    Alternative South Africa
    Sights to see in Cape Town, South Africa: readers’ tips

  • Clouds float above the Cape Town skyline and in the foreground is the city's downtown area.

    Alternative South Africa
    Instagram snapshots: Cape Town through the eyes of locals

  • Cape Town and Table Mountain

    Alternative South Africa
    Cape Town: share your tips with GuardianWitness or #GuardianCapeTown

December 2015

  • Nine Flowers Guesthouse, Cape Town, South Africa

    Top 10 hotels, B&Bs and hostels in Cape Town

    Cape Town has a wide range of affordable places to stay – and with the South African Rand weak in the currency market this is a great time to plan a visit

February 2015

  • The view across Table Bay from Bloubergstrand, Cape Town, South Africa

    Why I love …
    Chef Karen Dudley on Cape Town, South Africa

    Even the locals remain constantly dazzled by the vistas, but once you tear your eyes from Table Mountain, there is a wealth of culture and food to devour in Cape Town

August 2014

  • Hipsters and tourists flock to the market at the Old Biscuit Mill to enjoy the pricey gourmet foods on offer.

    The gentrification of Woodstock: from rundown suburb to hipster heaven

    As developers increasingly buy up property, the poor yet tightly knit multi-racial community who once called this Cape Town area home are being driven apart by the rising cost of living

March 2014

  • Truth Coffee Shop, District 6, Cape Town

    A tour of Cape Town, World Design Capital 2014

    Forget fancy galleries – in Cape Town, 2014 World Design Capital, the most exciting work is in the townships and once-grungy inner-city areas, says Lisa Grainger

November 2013

  • false bay dolphins

    Diving and coastal cool in False Bay, South Africa

    South Africa's False Bay is known as the 'Serengeti of the seas', such is the diversity of its marine life, providing incredible scenes for divers. Buzzy resorts around its edge provide something for landlubbers too, says Kevin Rushby

April 2013

  • Argus biggest bike race

    The Cape Argus, Cape Town: the world's biggest bike race

    The Cape Argus in Cape Town, South Africa, is the world's biggest bike race – more than 35,000 cyclists took part in the 2013 event last month. We meet two local riders from Khayelitsha township's cycling club, Velokhaya, as they prepare for the race, and follow the huge crowds of riders on the spectacular 110km route around the Cape peninsula

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