Nature & Parks

Cape Town is unusual among cities of its size in having a national park running through the middle of it, and the effect is that wild ground is never far away. Within an hour of the centre you can walk through indigenous forest, cross coastal fynbos that grows nowhere else on earth, or stand at the end of the peninsula with nothing ahead of you but the Southern Ocean.

This collection runs from formal gardens and city parks to large nature reserves along both coasts and out in the northern suburbs. They are grouped by area below, because once there are this many the practical question is usually which one is near you. Start with the three below, then find the rest by where you are staying.