Behind the scenes

Pride of Table Mountain

Whilst hiking up Kasteelspoort on Table Moutain yesterday, guests Mark and Hazel from the UK commented that the Cape Floral Kingdom must be amazing in Spring!  On pondering the response I said: “ Just the contrary – Due to mild

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Activities

Tagesausflug ans Kap der guten Hoffnung

Vor gut zwei Wochen bin ich in Kapstadt gelandet, um nach einer kurzen Eingewöhnungsphase mein fünfmonatiges Praktikum bei AWOL Tours anzutreten. Bereits an meinem ersten Tag hatte ich das Glück einen deutschen Touristen davon überzeugen zu dürfen, einen Ausflug ans

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Cycling

Cycle the Peninsula the relaxing way

Heike phoned from Germany in a panic just a few days before flying into Cape Town for one week arriving on New Years day without any travel plans.  She is a business owner working long stressful hours and never found

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Behind the scenes

Travel tips to survive Cape Town’s Cape Doctor

In summer a romping South Easter blowing in from False Bay means that Table Mountain will don her famous tablecloth and ruin all your holiday plans. The Table Mountain Aerial Cable car stops operating when the winds reach 45km/hour, Robben Island

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Activities

Family friendly Cape Town cycle tours

Having escaped the snow storms in Sweden, the Mlynarczyk were happy to be out getting some exercise cycling around Cape Town with clear blue skies overhead and Table Mountain looming above. Kitted out on the comfortable OV fiets we hitched up

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Cycling

AWOL Tours pedals into the V&A Waterfront

This week AWOL Tours descended on the V&A Waterfront, bicycles in tow. Having been approached by the Waterfront to provide bicycle rental and tours for the some 22 million tourists who hit the area every year, the AWOL team sprung

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Safari

Camping in the Kalahari

A log in the fire crackles, sending a spray of glittering sparks up into the cold, star lit Kalahari night. A little dust devil stirring behind us sends a shiver up my spine and I shift closer to the comforting

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