Constantia Nek to Kloof Nek Traverse

This route crosses the eastern slopes of Table Mountain between Constantia Nek and Kloof Nek, passing through Cecilia Plantation, Kirstenbosch, Newlands Forest and Rhodes Memorial. Unlike a trail-centre loop, it functions as a continuous cycling corridor across several parts of the mountain. SANBI opened the route in December 2016, using existing service roads and two […]

Elephant’s Eye Cave

Elephant’s Eye Cave is one of the most popular family-friendly hikes in the Silvermine section of Table Mountain National Park. The trail leads to a large sandstone cave carved into the mountainside, where hikers are rewarded with spectacular views over Tokai, False Bay, Muizenberg and the southern suburbs of Cape Town. Named for its distinctive […]

Chapman’s Peak Summit

The Chapman’s Peak hike leads to one of Cape Town’s most iconic viewpoints, perched above the world-famous Chapman’s Peak Drive. Rising between Hout Bay and Noordhoek, it rewards you with sweeping views of the Atlantic, Hout Bay Harbour, the Sentinel, Long Beach and, on a clear day, all the way to Cape Point. It is […]

Koopmans-de Wet House

Koopmans-de Wet House stands at 35 Strand Street, a two storey townhouse with four fluted pilasters across its front, pressed on every side by the taller buildings of the modern city. It is a museum, and it is currently closed. Iziko Museums began conservation work here in 2025, the furniture and objects have been taken […]

Martin Melck House

The building at 96 Strand Street is a two storey eighteenth century townhouse with a small room set on its roof, framed by scrolled volutes and crowned with a carved bird. Its name, Martin Melck House, leads most visitors to assume that Martin Melck lived here. He did not. Melck gave the Lutheran congregation the […]

Heritage Square

Heritage Square is easy to misread. The name suggests an open public square, and it sits directly across Shortmarket Street from one, but it is not a square at all. It is a city block, bounded by Bree, Shortmarket, Hout and Buitengracht Streets, made up of old buildings that were restored in the 1990s and […]

Strand Street Lutheran Church

The Strand Street Lutheran Church is the yellow-washed range about halfway along Strand Street, set behind a line of palms with traffic running past the door. The church itself carries a curved Cape gable and a square tower with clock faces and a slender spire, and the buildings continue on either side in one long […]

St Stephen’s Church

St Stephen’s Church stands on the Bree Street edge of Riebeeck Square, a long pale yellow building behind a low stone wall and a row of parked cars. At a glance it reads as a modest nineteenth century church: a pedimented front, pointed windows with white surrounds, steps up to the door. The giveaway is […]

Riebeeck Square

Riebeeck Square is a large open block in central Cape Town, bounded by Bree, Shortmarket, Church and Buitengracht Streets. Most of it is a surface car park: worn asphalt, faded bay markings, traffic cones and rows of parked cars, with trees along the street edges and Table Mountain filling the view. A cream classical building […]

Prestwich Memorial

The Prestwich Memorial is a low single-storey building of brick and grey stone, standing on an awkward triangular site at the corner of Somerset Road and Buitengracht Street beside St Andrew’s Square. It is easy to walk past, and the largest lettering on it belongs to the coffee roastery that occupies much of the interior, […]