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Cape Town

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Time to head south. Well not yet, but soon...ish.

General Travel Advice

Things To Sort Out

Things we need to sort out before we go:

• Accommodation (Confirming / paying)

• Money (for info, you can type 'xx ZAR in GBP' into Google to find out how much things cost in £s)

• Travel to Heathrow (car, bus, train?)
• Visa Information - No Visa as long as you have 3 blank pages in your passport
• Insurance - Check specifics for activities we might do (surfing, etc)
• Practice accent
• Vaccinations - I had a quick google and it says that we do not need any vaccinations for going to Cape Town but might want to check out this page . Don't know if we actually need anything as we aren't going out of Cape Town? What activities go far enough out that we might need to? Also, that page says it recommends Tetanus and Polio are up to date. I personally will avoid jabs if possible, thoughts?
• Area of travel - 2 hours approx, what is and is not in that radius?

Things To Do / Places To Go

List of things we want to do whilst we are there. Doubt we will have time to do everything, but I thought it might be an idea to chuck everything down anyway:

Activities:

• Shark Cage Diving
• Seal Island / Boat Cruise off Simon's Bay (Simons Town)
• Whale spotting (Boat ride, Hermanus?)
• Surfing
• Cruise up the Klein River
• Skydive (probably too expensive)
• Township Tour
• Wine Region Tour
• Elgin Wine Bus (Elgin)
• Huey Helicopter Flight (V&A Waterfront)

Places:

• Boulders Beach
• Table Mountain and Aerial Cableway
• Robben Island
• Two Oceans Aquarium
• V&A Waterfront - external link
• District 6 Museum
• Green market Square - external link
• Oudekraal Beach
• Cape Point
• Cape of Good Hope - and Baboons :-D
• Admire Rock Art in the Cederberg (Clanwilliam)
• Cape Flower Route (Cirusdal) - WRONG TIME OF YEAR - June - October
• Mouile Point Beach (Mouille Point)
• Hermanus Cliff Path (Hermanus)
• Explore the Perdeberg Trail (Grabouw)
• Meander along Jaeger Walk (Fish Hoek)
• The Garden Route
• Chapman's Peak / Drive Chapmans Peak (Hout Bay / Noordhoek)- external link
• Fish Hoek Bay
• Muizenberg Beach
• Game Reserve - Possibly Aquila or Sanbona. Map of western cape nature reserves here .

Food & Drink (Restaurants):

• Afternoon Tea at the Mount Nelson Hotel (another dad recommendation)
• Dine at the Two Oceans Restaurant (Cape Point) - external link
• Ritz Revolving Restaurant
• Laborie Restaurant
• Spur
• New York Bagel
• Mug & Bean
• La Med - external link
• Quay Four
• Hildebrand - external link
• Ocean Basket - external link
• Charly's Bakery - external link

Food & Drink (Dishes):

• Gatsby
• Vetkoek
• Koeksisters
• Snoek
• Pap n' wors
• Klippies & Coke
• Fresca

Camera (Sam)

• What lenses do I want?
• Rubber lens hood for aquarium?
• Tripod / Travel Tripod

General / Useful Links

Found a useful link? Paste it below:

http://www.dining-out.co.za/default.asp?SearchS=22&Keyword=Type%20Restaurant%20Name&LocationID=132&FoodTypeID=ALL&Order=NAME

http://www.southafrica.info/travel/advice/

http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/travel-and-living-abroad/travel-advice-by-country/sub-saharan-africa/south-africa