Quagga Rare Books & Art
Quagga has been on Main Road in Kalk Bay since 1990, dealing in rare and antiquarian books, antique maps, prints and ephemera with a Southern African emphasis. It is the anchor of the browsing strip that makes Kalk Bay worth an afternoon rather than an hour. The shop is open every day of the week, […]
Baxter Theatre Centre
The Baxter opened on 1 August 1977 and belongs to the University of Cape Town. Five spaces run alongside each other — the Pam Golding Theatre, a concert hall, the Baxter Studio, and the smaller Masambe and Flipside rooms. It produces as well as receives, and the Zabalaza festival and the Morning Melodies series sit […]
District
The dance floor is the point — Oregon wood, room to use it, and booth seating around the edges. There are no general opening hours. Nights are programmed and ticketed ahead, so the schedule is what to check rather than a weekly timetable. The room is also hired for private and corporate functions, and it […]
Truth Coffee
Truth Coffee trades from 36 Buitenkant Street, on the eastern side of the city centre. It opens at seven in the morning from Monday to Saturday and closes at six, with a shorter Sunday running eight until four. Tuesday and Wednesday evenings are a separate thing. After Dark runs from 19h00 until late, with live […]
Cape of Good Hope Hiking Trail
The Cape of Good Hope Hiking Trail is the one overnight route SANParks still publishes in Table Mountain National Park, and it is the strongest walking proposition on the southern peninsula. A 33.8 kilometre circuit starting and finishing at the main gate, it takes two days with a night in a hut, and it crosses […]
Swartkop
Swartkopberg is the mountain directly behind Simon’s Town, and it falls inside Table Mountain National Park. SANParks manages it as one of the park’s more remote sections, an area kept deliberately undeveloped, reached on foot, with hiking as an accepted use. That is the character of the walk: a real mountain above a small naval […]
Olifantsbos Shipwreck Trail
The Shipwreck Trail is the walk to do at Cape Point if you would rather look at the sea than climb above it. It leaves the car park at Olifantsbos, on the Atlantic side of the Cape of Good Hope section, and follows the shore north across sand and low coastal path. Two vessels lie […]
Silvermine Reservoir Boardwalk
The Silvermine reservoir boardwalk is the shortest walk we list, and it is here deliberately. SANParks identifies a boardwalk trail of approximately twenty-five minutes on the banks of the reservoir, and it is level the whole way, which makes it the one outing in Silvermine that suits people who cannot manage a mountain path. It […]
Willis Walk
Willis Walk is one of the quieter finds on the peninsula. It is a coastal footpath connecting Bellevue Road in Simon’s Town with Kleintuin Road at Seaforth, running along the shore below the slopes. SANParks names it in its own park material. The important distinction is with Boulders. The penguin colony boardwalks at Boulders and […]
King David Mowbray Golf Club
King David Mowbray Golf Club welcomes visitors seven days a week and links directly to an online tee sheet where available rounds can be booked. The club also publishes member-priority periods for Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons and Saturdays. Visitor times may be released the day before or on the day when space is available, so […]