Ou Kaapse Weg

Ou Kaapse Weg, the Old Cape Road, is the mountain crossing that links Cape Town’s southern suburbs with the southern peninsula. It is not a coastal road and it is not a lookout you drive to. It is a pass, and the reason to take it is the crossing itself. You leave the suburbs behind […]

Boyes Drive

Boyes Drive is the road that runs along the mountainside above Muizenberg, St James and Kalk Bay, a good way up from the coastal road most people use. It exists largely as a local alternative to the Main Road below, and there is nothing remarkable about the road itself: two lanes, houses along one side […]

Clarence Drive

Clarence Drive is the stretch of the R44 that leaves Gordon’s Bay and runs south along the eastern edge of False Bay, held between mountain slopes on one side and open water on the other. It is a public road rather than a built attraction, but it is one of the few roads in the […]

Victoria Road Atlantic Seaboard Drive

Victoria Road is the coastal road that runs south from Camps Bay to Hout Bay with the Atlantic on one side and the western wall of Table Mountain on the other. It is worth saying plainly that there is nothing hidden or undiscovered about it. Thousands of people use it every day for the commute […]

Chapman’s Peak Drive

Chapman’s Peak Drive is widely regarded as one of the world’s most beautiful coastal roads. Winding along towering cliffs between Hout Bay and Noordhoek, the route offers unforgettable views across the Atlantic Ocean, dramatic mountain landscapes and some of Cape Town’s finest photography locations. The drive features numerous viewpoints where visitors can stop to admire […]