Surfing
Surfers Corner at Muizenberg is where most people in Cape Town first stand up on a board. The wave is a long, slow, sandy-bottomed beach break that reforms all the way to the beach, which is close to ideal for learning. Lessons are run from shopfronts on the Muizenberg beachfront, a few minutes’ walk from […]
Stand-Up Paddleboarding
The canals inside the V&A Waterfront are the easy way to start: flat, sheltered, and short enough that an hour is plenty. You paddle past the working harbour and under the bridges with the city on both sides. Open-ocean sessions are the other end of it, run as guided tours along the coast when the […]
Helicopter Rides
The helipad sits on East Pier Road at the Waterfront, so the flight starts where you already are rather than at an airfield out of town. Flights are sold as routes rather than as blocks of time, running from a short circuit over Table Bay and the city to longer loops down the Atlantic seaboard, […]
Gyrocopter Flights
A gyrocopter looks like a small helicopter but flies on a different principle. Its rotor is not driven by the engine. It turns freely in the airflow while a propeller pushes the aircraft forward, which makes it steady in rough air and able to fly unusually slowly. You sit behind the pilot in an open […]
Microlight Flights
A microlight flight is the most exposed way to see Cape Town from the air. You sit behind the pilot in an open cockpit under a fabric wing, with nothing between you and the view, flying low and slow over the farmland north of the city and out towards the coast. The aircraft is steered […]
Cape Peninsula Scenic Flight, Africa Sky Runners
The Peninsula is the kind of landscape that only really makes sense from above. The route runs out over Table Mountain and the Twelve Apostles, down the Atlantic side past Clifton and Camps Bay, on to the lighthouse at Cape Point, then back across False Bay and the Constantia valley. You fly in a Cessna, […]
Vintage Sidecar Tours, Cape Sidecar Adventures
The bikes are the point. Most of the fleet are CJ750s, decommissioned sidecars used by the Chinese People’s Liberation Army between the early 1950s and the mid-1970s, themselves built on the German BMW R71. They have been rebuilt and modified for South African roads, and since 2023 a group of Russian Urals has joined them. […]
Cape Peninsula Day Tour
The peninsula runs south from the city and ends in a cliff-backed point where two coastlines meet. A day tour follows that shape, out along one coast, down to the tip, and back up the other side. It is a landscape day rather than a museum day, and most of it is spent at viewpoints […]
Cool Runnings Toboggan Park
The ride combines the feel of a traditional toboggan run with the control of a track-based descent. Each rider sets their own pace, making it possible to take the descent more gently or let the toboggan pick up speed. Located in Tygervalley, Bellville, Cool Runnings is an easy activity to combine with a day in […]
Robben Island Museum Tour
The tour is the only way to visit Robben Island. It is run by Robben Island Museum and begins at the Nelson Mandela Gateway at the V&A Waterfront, where the ferry departs. The museum gives the whole experience as about three and a half hours, including the ferry crossing in each direction. The island section […]