De Hoop Nature Reserve

Rocherpan Nature Reserve

Harold Porter National Botanical Garden

Bird Island Nature Reserve

Stony Point Nature Reserve

West Coast National Park

Table Bay Nature Reserve

Table Bay Nature Reserve is not one place. It is 880 hectares of wetland, river, lagoon, beach and lowland vegetation stitched together across the northern side of Cape Town, made up of seven separate parts: Rietvlei Wetlands, Milnerton Lagoon, Milnerton Beach, Milnerton Racecourse, Zoarvlei Wetlands, the Diep River and the Parklands Fynbos Corridor. Understanding that […]

False Bay Nature Reserve

Most Cape Town reserves are a place you drive to. False Bay Nature Reserve is a system you move through. The City of Cape Town manages six separate parts as one reserve along the northern shore of False Bay, and the whole of it forms part of the greater False Bay Ecology Park. Where the […]

Helderberg Nature Reserve

Somerset West sits at the foot of the Hottentots Holland Mountains, and Helderberg Nature Reserve is the town’s doorway into them. Where Tygerberg protects an isolated hill of open renosterveld and Newlands Forest offers shaded recreation on the city side of the mountain, Helderberg combines manicured lower gardens and picnic lawns with a footpath network […]

Rondevlei Nature Reserve

Unlike Intaka Island’s constructed urban wetland, Rondevlei is a large natural freshwater reserve where visitors experience expansive reed beds, open water and indigenous wildlife in a much wilder setting. It is also the only place in the south-western Cape where hippopotamuses are still found. Rondevlei is one of six sections of the False Bay Nature […]