West Coast

SANCCOB Cape Town

Rocherpan Nature Reserve

Bird Island Nature Reserve

West Coast National Park

Get Grounded

Get Grounded is a small studio on Pikkewyn Road in Bloubergstrand, and its distinguishing class is aerial yoga: postures worked in and supported by a fabric hammock rather than on a mat, which takes the load off the spine and makes inversions accessible to people who could not hold them on the floor. The aerial […]

The Bloc Blouberg

The Bloc is a CrossFit affiliate in Parklands, north of Cape Town on the way to Blouberg, and it has been running coached group classes since 2013. It is a gym built around a class timetable rather than a gym floor you wander onto, and every session is led by a coach. For a visitor, […]

The Bloc Melkbos

The Bloc Melkbos opened in 2024 in the old Koeberg Club, a large site on the coast road north of Cape Town, and it is the operator’s second gym after Blouberg. It is an official Hyrox training club, so the programming leans towards the mix of running and functional stations that Hyrox racing is built […]

San Guided Tours, !Khwa ttu

Abalone Hotel & Spa

Sandboarding at Atlantis Dunes

The Atlantis dunes are a field of mobile white sand inside a City of Cape Town nature reserve, close enough to the coast that the wind keeps rebuilding them. From the top of a slipface the landscape looks nothing like the rest of the Western Cape. Sessions start with a briefing and some instruction. The […]