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Belville, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Asking price: ZAR 7,5 million
About us
With a 3 star Tourism Grading Council of South Africa Grading you are assured of professional and high quality service delivery each time you visit us.?We pride ourselves on our fabulous breakfasts and sumptuous lunches and dinners prepared by our resident chef - a real winner with all our guests.
For the leisure visitor we are located minutes from all of the tourist hotspots and world class shopping centres which Cape Town has to offer.
Our guest house has long been home to corporate visitors as we offer the ideal accommodation options with en-suite rooms equipped with desk areas and WiFi for the busy executive.
A stunning pool deck overlooking the sparkling pool offers the perfect area to enjoy a sun-downer after a hard day at the office or beach or to start out the day with our legendary breakfast. For leisure or for the corporate visitor, there's simply no better choice. Great quality and value for money.
Accommodation
LUXURY DOUBLE ROOM
Sleeps 2
Sleeps: 2 pax Beds: 1 x double bed Bathroom: en-suite
The spacious room is equipped with a stocked mini bar, DSTV select channels & electric blanket for chilly winter nights.
POOL & GARDEN VIEW
Sleeps 2
Sleeps: 2 pax Beds: 2 x single Bathroom: en-suite Veranda with garden or pool view
The spacious room is equipped with a stocked mini bar, DSTV select channels & electric blanket for chilly winter nights.
LUXURY SUITE
Sleeps 2
Sleeps: 2 pax Beds: 1 x double bed Bathroom: full luxury en-suite Access to pool patio
The spacious room is equipped with a stocked mini bar, DSTV select channels & electric blanket for chilly winter nights. Luxurious bathroom with double vanity and semi sunken bath. Ideal honeymoon suite.
LUXURY TWIN ROOMS
Sleeps 2
Sleeps: 2 pax Beds: 2 x single Bathroom: en-suite
The spacious room is equipped with a stocked mini bar, DSTV select channels & electric blanket for chilly winter nights.
POOL & GARDEN VIEW
Sleeps 2
Sleeps: 2 pax Beds: 2 x single Bathroom: en-suite Veranda
The spacious cabins are equipped with a stocked mini bar, DSTV select channels & electric blanket for chilly winter nights.
Amenities & Services
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We will handle all of your catering requirements for your event on site. Contact us to book your event in advance and we will discuss menu options with you.
Equipment
Our guest house will supply all necessary equipment required for a successful conference or event.
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Bellville?
Belliville is a town in the?Western Cape?province of?South Africa. It is situated adjacent to the Koelberg Mountains and also the?University of Western Cape?where it has its own campus.
Established
It was founded as "12 Mile Post" (Afrikaans: "12-Myl-Pos") because it is located 12 miles (20?km) from Cape Town city centre. It was first known as "Hardekraaltjie". Founded as a?railway station?on the line from Cape Town to?Stellenbosch?and?Strand, it was renamed Bellville in 1861 after the surveyor-general?Charles Bell. The motor registration number bears the number CY.
Hospitals and educational institutes
The?Karl Bremer Hospital?functioned as the Academic Hospital for the?University of Stellenbosch?Medical School, but now the adjacent?Tygerberg Hospital?houses the medical school. Other hospitals in Bellville are:?Mediclinic International?Louis Leipoldt and Melomed.?The?Cape Peninsula University of Technology,?University of the Western Cape,?University of Stellenbosch Business School?and?Northlink College?are also situated in Bellville.?D.F. Malan High School,?Bellville High School, Westcliff School of Skills,?The Settlers High School?and?Stellenberg High School?are located in the area. Primary Schools are: Bellpark,[3]?Bellville, Bellville-North, Boston, Eversdal, Excelsior, Kenridge, Mimosa, Totius,??Belville Islamic Primary School, Vredelust and Welgemoed.
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Other places of interest
The?Bellville Velodrome?is located in the Tyger Valley area of Bellville. The?Bellville Velodrome?has an?indoor cycling track?and is next to the Bellville athletics track that used to host the annual?MTBS?athletics competition. Bellville Mall,?Tygervalley Shopping centre?and Willow Bridge?are shopping centres in Bellville. The last two shopping centres were built on the grounds that used to be a?quarry and a jail.
Sanlam's head office is also located in Strand Road, Bellville.
Other sports an entertainment includes: Bellville Golf Course,?Bellville library,?Bellville swimming pool?, Cool runnings,?Jack Muller Danie Uys Park?(The?Parkrun?in Bellville is done here) and PP Smit Sport fields
The head office of the?Bible society?of South Africa is situated in the city
Tygerberg Nature Reserve?is just above Welgemoed, one of Bellville's suburbs.
Cape Town?
Cape Town?is the oldest and second-largest city in?South Africa, after?Johannesburg, and also the seat of the?Parliament of South Africa.
Colloquially named the Mother City,?it is the?largest city?of the?Western Cape?province?and forms part of the?City of Cape Town?metropolitan municipality. The?Parliament of South Africa?is situated in Cape Town.?The other two capitals are located in?Gauteng?(Pretoria?the executive capital where the Presidency is based) and in the?Free State?(Bloemfontein?the judicial capital where the Supreme Court of Appeal is located). The city is known for?its harbour, for its natural setting in the?Cape Floristic Region, and for landmarks such as?Table Mountain?and?Cape Point. Cape Town is home to 66% of the Western Cape's population. The city was named the?World Design Capital?for 2014 by the?International Council of Societies of Industrial Design.
In 2014, Cape Town was named the best place in the world to visit by both?The New York Times?and?The Daily Telegraph.?Cape Town has also been a host city for both the?1995 Rugby World Cup?and?2010 FIFA World Cup, and annually hosts the Africa leg of the?World Rugby 7s.
Located on the shore of?Table Bay, Cape Town, as?the oldest urban area in the Western Cape, it was developed by the?Dutch East India Company?(VOC) as a supply station for Dutch ships sailing to?East Africa,?India, and the?Far East.?Jan van Riebeeck's arrival on 6 April 1652 established the?VOC Cape Colony, the first permanent European settlement in South Africa. Cape Town outgrew its original purpose as the first European outpost at the?Castle of Good Hope, becoming the economic and cultural hub of the?Cape Colony. Until the?Witwatersrand Gold Rush?and the development of Johannesburg, Cape Town was the largest city in South Africa.
Early history
The earliest known remnants of human occupation in the region were found at Peers Cave in?Fish Hoek?and date to between 15,000 and 12,000 years ago.?Little is known of the history of the region's first residents, since there is no written history from the area before it was first mentioned by?Portuguese explorer?Bartolomeu Dias?in 1488 who was the first European to reach the area and named it "Cape of Storms" (Cabo das Tormentas). It was later renamed by?John II of Portugal?as "Cape of Good Hope" (Cabo da Boa Esperan?a) because of the great optimism engendered by the opening of a sea route to India and the East.?Vasco da Gama?recorded a sighting of the?Cape of Good Hope?in 1497. In 1510, at the?Battle of Salt River,?Francisco de Almeida?and sixty-four of his men were killed and his party were defeated?by the?!Uri∥’aekua?("Goringhaiqua" in Dutch approximate spelling) using specially trained cattle. The !Uri∥’aekua were one of the so-called?Khoekhoe?clans of the area. In the late 16th century French, Danish, Dutch and English, but mainly Portuguese, ships regularly continued to stop over in Table Bay en route to the?Indies. They traded tobacco, copper, and iron with the?Khoekhoe?clans of the region to exchange fresh meat and other provisions.
Dutch period
In 1652,?Jan van Riebeeck?and other employees of the?United East India Company?(Dutch:?Verenigde Oost-indische Compagnie, VOC) were sent to the Cape Town to establish a way-station for ships travelling to the?Dutch East Indies, and the?Fort de Goede Hoop?(later replaced by the?Castle of Good Hope). The settlement grew slowly during this period, as it was hard to find adequate labour. This labour shortage prompted the authorities to import slaves from?Indonesia?and?Madagascar. Many of these became ancestors of the first?Cape Coloured?communities.?Under Van Riebeeck and his successors as VOC commanders and later governors at the Cape, an impressive range of useful plants were introduced to the Cape – in the process, changing the natural environment forever. Some of these, including grapes, cereals, ground nuts, potatoes, apples and citrus, had an important and lasting influence on the societies and economies of the region.
British period
The?Dutch Republic?being transformed into?Revolutionary France's vassal?Batavian Republic, Great Britain moved to take control of its colonies. Britain captured Cape Town in 1795, but the Cape was returned to the Dutch by treaty in 1803. British forces occupied the Cape again in 1806 following the?Battle of Blaauwberg. In the?Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1814, Cape Town was permanently ceded to the United Kingdom. It became the capital of the newly formed?Cape Colony, whose territory expanded very substantially through the 1800s. With expansion came calls for greater independence from the UK, with the Cape attaining?its own parliament?(1854) and a locally accountable Prime Minister (1872). Suffrage was established according to the non-racial?Cape Qualified Franchise.
During the 1850s and 1860s, additional plant species were introduced from Australia by the British authorities. Notably,?rooikrans?to stabilise the sand of the?Cape Flats?to allow for a road connecting the peninsula with the rest of the African continent?and?eucalyptus?to drain marshes.?In 1859 the first railway line was built by the?Cape Government Railways?and a system of railways rapidly expanded in the 1870s. The discovery of diamonds in?Griqualand West?in 1867, and the?Witwatersrand Gold Rush?in 1886, prompted a flood of immigrants to South Africa. In 1895 the city's first public power station, the?Graaff Electric Lighting Works, was opened. Conflicts between the?Boer republics?in the interior and the British colonial government resulted in the?Second Boer War?of 1899–1902, which Britain won. From 1891 to 1901, the city's population more than doubled from 67,000 to 171,000.
South African period
In 1910, Britain established the?Union of South Africa, which unified the Cape Colony with the two defeated Boer Republics and the British?colony of Natal. Cape Town became the legislative capital of the Union, and later of the?Republic of South Africa.
In 1945 the expansion of the?Cape Town foreshore?adding an additional 194 hectares (480 acres) to the city bowl area was completed.
Prior to the mid-twentieth century, Cape Town was one of the most racially integrated cities in South Africa.?In the?1948 national elections, the?National Party?won on a platform of?apartheid?(racial segregation) under the slogan of "swart gevaar" (Afrikaans for "black danger"). This led to the erosion and eventual abolition of the?Cape's multiracial franchise, as well as to the?Group Areas Act, which classified all areas according to race. Formerly multi-racial suburbs of Cape Town were either purged of residents deemed unlawful by apartheid legislation or demolished. The most infamous example of this in Cape Town was?District Six. After it was declared a whites-only region in 1965, all housing there was demolished and over 60,000 residents were forcibly removed.?Many of these residents were relocated to the?Cape Flats.
The earliest of the Cape Flats forced removals were to?Langa?particularly with the 1923 Native Urban Areas Act.?Langa?is the oldest township in Cape Town and the scene of much resistance against Apartheid. Its origins go back to the 19th century.
Under apartheid, the Cape was considered a "Coloured?labour preference area", to the exclusion of "Bantus", i.e. Africans. The implementation of this policy was widely opposed by trade unions, civil society and opposition parties. It is notable that this policy was not advocated for by any coloured political group, and its implementation was a unilateral decision by the apartheid government.
School students from?Langa,?Gugulethu?and?Nyanga?in Cape Town reacted to the news of?protests against Bantu Education in Soweto?in June 1976 and organised gatherings and marches, which were met with resistance from the police. A number of school buildings were burnt down.
Cape Town was home to many leaders of the?anti-apartheid movement. On?Robben Island, a former penitentiary island 10 kilometres (6 miles) from the city, many famous political prisoners were held for years. In one of the most famous moments marking the end of apartheid,?Nelson Mandela?made his first public speech since his imprisonment, from the balcony of?Cape Town City Hall?hours after being released on 11 February 1990. His speech heralded the beginning of a new era for the country, and the?first democratic election, was held four years later, on 27 April 1994. Nobel Square in the?Victoria & Alfred Waterfront?features statues of South Africa's four?Nobel Peace Prize?winners:?Albert Luthuli,?Desmond Tutu,?F. W. de Klerk?and?Nelson Mandela.
There was a?severe water shortage?from 2015 to 2018. Since the beginning of the second decade of the twenty-first century Cape Town and the Western Cape province have been home to a?growing independence movement.?In the?2021 municipal elections?pro-independence parties garnered around 5% of the city's vote.
Geography
Cape Town is located at latitude 33.55° S (approximately the same as?Sydney?and?Buenos Aires?and equivalent to?Casablanca?and?Los Angeles?in the northern hemisphere) and longitude 18.25° E. Table Mountain, with its near-vertical cliffs and flat-topped summit over 1,000?m (3,300?ft) high, and with?Devil's Peak?and?Lion's Head?on either side, together form a dramatic mountainous backdrop enclosing the central area of Cape Town, the so-called?City Bowl. A thin strip of cloud, known colloquially as the "tablecloth", sometimes forms on top of the mountain. To the immediate south, the?Cape Peninsula?is a scenic mountainous spine jutting 40 kilometres (25?mi) southwards into the?Atlantic Ocean?and terminating at?Cape Point. There are over 70 peaks above 300?m (980?ft) within?Cape Town's official city limits. Many of the city's suburbs lie on the large plain called the?Cape Flats, which extends over 50 kilometres (30?mi) to the east and joins the peninsula to the mainland. The Cape Town region is characterised by an extensive coastline, rugged mountain ranges, coastal plains and inland valleys.
Robben Island
UNESCO?declared?Robben Island?in the Western Cape a?World Heritage Site?in 1999. Robben Island is located in Table Bay, some 6?km (3.7?mi) west of Bloubergstrand in Cape Town, and stands some 30m above sea level. Robben Island has been used as a prison where people were isolated, banished, and exiled for nearly 400 years. It was also used as a leper colony, a post office, a grazing ground, a mental hospital, and an outpost.
Visitors can only access the island via the?Robben Island Museum?boat service, which runs three times daily until the beginning of the peak season (1 September). The ferries depart from the Nelson Mandela Gateway at the?V&A Waterfront.
Climate
Cape Town has a warm?Mediterranean climate?(K?ppen:?Csb),?with mild, moderately wet winters and dry, warm summers. Winter, which lasts from the beginning of June to the end of August, may see large cold fronts entering for limited periods from the Atlantic Ocean with significant?precipitation?and strong north-westerly winds. Winter months in the city average a maximum of 18?°C (64?°F) and minimum of 8.5?°C (47?°F).?Total annual rainfall in the city averages 515 millimetres (20.3?in) although in the?Southern Suburbs, close to the mountains, rainfall is significantly higher and averages closer to 1,000 millimetres (39.4?in). Summer, which lasts from December to March, is warm and dry with an average maximum of 26?°C (79?°F) and a minimum of 16?°C (61?°F). The region can get uncomfortably hot when the?Berg Wind, meaning "mountain wind", blows from the?Karoo?interior. Spring and summer generally feature a strong wind from the south-east, known locally as the south-easter or the?Cape Doctor, so called because it blows air pollution away. This wind is caused by a persistent?high-pressure system?over the?South Atlantic?to the west of Cape Town, known as the?South Atlantic High, which shifts latitude seasonally, following the sun, and influencing the strength of the fronts and their northward reach. Cape Town receives about 3,100 hours of sunshine per year.
Water temperatures range greatly, between 10?°C (50?°F) on the Atlantic Seaboard, to over 22?°C (72?°F) in?False Bay. Average annual ocean surface temperatures are between 13?°C (55?°F) on the Atlantic Seaboard (similar to Californian waters, such as?San Francisco?or?Big Sur), and 17?°C (63?°F) in False Bay (similar to Northern Mediterranean temperatures, such as?Nice?or?Monte Carlo).
Unlike other parts of the country the city does not have many?thunderstorms, and most of those that do occur, happen around October to December and March to April.
Flora and fauna
Located in a?CI?Biodiversity hotspot?as well as the unique?Cape Floristic Region, the city of Cape Town has one of the highest levels of?biodiversity?of any equivalent area in the world.?These protected areas are a?World Heritage Site, and an estimated 2,200 species of plants are confined to Table Mountain – more than exist in the whole of the?United Kingdom?which has 1200 plant species and 67 endemic plant species.?Many of these species, including a great many types of?proteas, are endemic to the mountain and can be found nowhere else.
It is home to a total of 19 different?vegetation types, of which several are?endemic?to the city and occur nowhere else in the world.?It is also the only habitat of hundreds of endemic species,?and hundreds of others which are severely restricted or threatened. This enormous species diversity is mainly because the city is uniquely located at the convergence point of several different soil types and micro-climates.
Table Mountain has an unusually rich biodiversity. Its vegetation consists predominantly of several different types of the unique and rich Cape?Fynbos. The main vegetation type is endangered?Peninsula Sandstone Fynbos, but?critically endangered?Peninsula Granite Fynbos,?Peninsula Shale Renosterveld?and?Afromontane forest?occur in smaller portions on the mountain.
Unfortunately, rapid?population growth?and?urban sprawl?has covered much of these ecosystems with development. Consequently, Cape Town now has over 300?threatened?plant species and 13 which are now?extinct. The?Cape Peninsula, which lies entirely within the city of Cape Town, has the highest concentration of?threatened species?of any continental area of equivalent size in the world.?Tiny remnant populations of?critically endangered?or?near-extinct?plants sometimes survive on roadsides, pavements and sports fields.?The remaining ecosystems are partially protected through a system of over 30?nature reserves?– including the massive?Table Mountain National Park.
Cape Town reached first place in the 2019 iNaturalist City Nature Challenge in two out of the three categories: Most Observations, and Most Species. This was the first entry by Capetonians in this annual competition to observe and record the local biodiversity over a four-day long weekend during what is considered the worst time of the year for local observations.?However, a worldwide survey showed that the extinction rate of endemic plants from the City of Cape Town is one of the highest in the world, at roughly three per year since 1900 - partly a consequence of the very small and localised habitats and high endemicity.
Demographics
According to the?South African National Census of 2011, the population of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality?– an area that includes suburbs and?exurbs??– is 3,740,026 people. This represents an annual growth rate of 2.6% compared to the results of the?previous census in 2001?which found a population of 2,892,243 people.
The?sex ratio?is 96, meaning that there are slightly more women than men.
According to the 2016 City of Cape Town community survey, there were 4 004 793 in the City of Cape Town metro. Out of this population 42.6% identified as Black African, 39.9% identified as Coloured, 16.5% identified as White and 1.1% identified as Asian.
In 1944, 47% of the city-proper's population was White, 46% was Coloured, less than 6% was Black African and 1% was Asian, though these numbers did not represent wider Cape Town.?Also, race definitions prior to the Population Registration Act of 1950 were extremely vague and would have had significant overlap between Coloured and Black African identified populations.
The repealing of apartheid laws limiting the movement of people to Cape Town based on race in 1986 contributed to a period of rapid population growth.??The population of Cape Town increased from just under 1.2 million in 1970 to 2.8 million by the year 2000; with the population of residents described as Black African increasing from 9.6% of the city's population to 32.3% in the same period.
Of those residents who were asked about their?first language, 35.7% spoke?Afrikaans, 29.8% spoke?Xhosa?and 28.4% spoke?English. 24.8% of the population is under the age of 15, while 5.5% is 65 or older.
Of those residents aged 20 or older, 1.8% have no schooling, 8.1% have some schooling but did not finish primary school, 4.6% finished primary school but have no secondary schooling, 38.9% have some secondary schooling but did not finish?Grade 12, 29.9% finished Grade 12 but have no higher education, and 16.7% have higher education. Overall, 46.6% have at least a Grade 12 education.?Of those aged between 5 and 25, 67.8% are attending an educational institution.?Amongst those aged between 15 and 65 the unemployment rate is 23.7%.?The average annual household income is?R?161,762.
The total number of households grew from 653,085 in 1996 to 1,068,572 in 2011, which represents an increase of 63,6%. The average number of household members declined from 3,92 in 1996 to 3,50 in 2011.?Of those households, 78.4% are in formal structures (houses or?flats), while 20.5% are in informal structures (shacks).??97.3% of City-supplied households have access to electricity,?and 94.0% of households use?electricity?for lighting.?87.3% of households have?piped water?to the dwelling, while 12.0% have piped water through a communal tap.??94.9% of households have regular?refuse collection?services.?91.4% of households have a?flush toilet?or?chemical toilet, while 4.5% still use a bucket toilet.??82.1% of households have a?refrigerator, 87.3% have a television and 70.1% have a radio. Only 34.0% have a landline telephone, but 91.3% have a cellphone. 37.9% have a computer, and 49.3% have access to the Internet (either through a computer or a cellphone).
Economy
Cape Town is the economic hub of the?Western Cape?province, accounting for roughly 80% of the province's GDP.?The city is?South Africa's second main economic centre and?Africa's third main economic hub city. It serves as the regional manufacturing centre in the Western Cape. In 2011 the city's?GMP?was?US$?56.8?billion with a?GDP per capita?of US$15,721.?In 2014, the City contributed 9.8% of the national GDP.
In the five years preceding 2014 Cape Town GMP grew at an average of 3.7% a year. As a proportion of GMP, the agriculture and manufacturing sectors have declined whilst finance, business services, transport, and logistics have grown, reflecting the local economy's growth in specialised services sectors. Fishing, clothing and textiles, wood product manufacturing, electronics, furniture, hospitality, finance and business services are industries in which Cape Town's economy has the largest?comparative advantage.
The city of Cape Town's?Gini coefficient?of 0.58?is lower than South Africa's Gini coefficient of 0.7 making it more equal than the rest of the country.?Between 2001 and 2010 the city's?Gini coefficient, a measure of inequality, improved by dropping from 0.59 in 2007 to 0.57 in 2010?only to increase to 0.58 by 2017.?The city has the lowest rate of inequality in South Africa although still highly unequal by international standards.
Most goods are handled through the Port of Cape Town or?Cape Town International Airport. Most major shipbuilding companies have offices in Cape Town.[92]?The province is also a centre of energy development for the country, with the existing?Koeberg nuclear power station?providing energy for the Western Cape's needs.
Cape Town has four major commercial nodes, with Cape Town Central Business District containing the majority of job opportunities and office space.?Century City, the?Bellville/Tygervalley strip and?Claremont?commercial nodes are well established and contain many offices and corporate headquarters.
Most companies headquartered in the city are insurance companies, retail groups, publishers, design houses, fashion designers, shipping companies, petrochemical companies, architects and advertising agencies.?Some of the most notable companies headquartered in the city are food and fashion retailer?Woolworths,?supermarket chain?Pick n Pay Stores?and?Shoprite, New Clicks Holdings Limited, fashion retailer?Foschini Group, internet service provider MWEB,?Mediclinic International,?eTV, multinational mass media giant?Naspers, and financial services giant?Sanlam.?Other notable companies include?Belron?(vehicle glass repair and replacement group operating worldwide), CapeRay (develops, manufactures and supplies medical imaging equipment for the diagnosis of breast cancer),?Ceres Fruit Juices?(produces fruit juice and other fruit-based products),?Coronation Fund Managers?(third-party fund management company), ICS (was one of the largest meat processing and distribution companies in the world),?Vida e Caffè?(chain of coffee retailers),?Capitec Bank?(commercial bank in the Republic of South Africa). The city is a manufacturing base for several multinational companies including,?Johnson & Johnson,?GlaxoSmithKline,?Levi Strauss & Co.,?Adidas,?Bokomo Foods,?Yoco?and Nampak.?Amazon Web Services?maintains one of its largest facilities in the world in Cape Town with the city serving as the Africa headquarters for its parent company?Amazon.
With the highest number of successful Technology companies in Africa, Cape Town is an important centre for the industry on the continent. This includes an increasing number of companies in the?space industry.?Growing at an annual rate of 8.5% and an estimated worth of R77?billion in 2010, nationwide the high tech industry in Cape Town is becoming increasingly important to the city's economy.
The city was recently named as the most entrepreneurial city in South Africa, with the percentage of Capetonians pursuing business opportunities almost three times higher than the national average. Those aged between 18 and 64 were 190% more likely to pursue new business, whilst in Johannesburg, the same demographic group was only 60% more likely than the national average to pursue a new business.?With a number of entrepreneurship initiatives and universities hosting technology startups such as?Jumo, Yoco, Aerobotics, Luno and The Sun Exchange.
Tourism
The Western Cape is an important tourist region in South Africa; the tourism industry accounts for 9.8% of the GDP of the province and employs 9.6% of the province's workforce. In 2010, over 1.5?million international tourists visited the area.
Cape Town is not only a popular international tourist destination in?South Africa, but?Africa?as a whole. This is due to its mild climate, natural setting, and well-developed infrastructure. The city has several well-known natural features that attract tourists, most notably?Table Mountain,?which forms a large part of the?Table Mountain National Park?and is the back end of the?City Bowl. Reaching the top of the mountain can be achieved either by hiking up, or by taking the?Table Mountain Cableway.?Cape Point?is recognised as the dramatic headland at the end of the?Cape Peninsula.?Many tourists also drive along?Chapman's Peak Drive, a narrow road that links?Noordhoek?with?Hout Bay, for the views of the Atlantic Ocean and nearby mountains. It is possible to either drive or hike up?Signal Hill?for closer views of the City Bowl and Table Mountain.
Many tourists also visit?Cape Town's beaches, which are popular with local residents.?Due to the city's unique geography, it is possible to visit several different beaches in the same day, each with a different setting and atmosphere. Though the Cape's water ranges from cold to mild, the difference between the two sides of the city is dramatic. While the Atlantic Seaboard averages annual water temperatures barely above that of coastal California around 13?°C (55?°F), the?False Bay?coast is much warmer, averaging between 16 and 17?°C (61 and 63?°F) annually. This is similar to water temperatures in much of the Northern?Mediterranean?(for example?Nice). In summer, False Bay water averages slightly over 20?°C (68?°F), with 22?°C (72?°F) a common high. Beaches located on the Atlantic Coast tend to have very cold water due to the?Benguela current?which originates from the?Southern Ocean, whilst the water at False Bay beaches may be warmer by up to 10?°C (18?°F) at the same moment due to the influence of the warm?Agulhas current. It is a common misconception that False Bay is part of the Indian Ocean, with Cape Point being both the meeting point of the Indian and Atlantic Oceans and the southernmost tip of Africa. The oceans in fact meet at the actual southernmost tip,?Cape Agulhas, which lies approximately 150 kilometres (93 miles) to the southeast. The misconception is fuelled by the relative warmth of the False Bay water to the Atlantic Seaboard water, and the many confusing instances of "Two Oceans" in names synonymous with Cape Town, such as the?Two Oceans Marathon, the?Two Oceans Aquarium, and places such as Two Oceans wine farm.
Both coasts are equally popular, although the beaches in affluent?Clifton?and elsewhere on the Atlantic Coast are better developed with restaurants and cafés, with a strip of restaurants and bars accessible to the beach at?Camps Bay. The Atlantic seaboard, known as Cape Town's Riviera, is regarded as one of the most scenic routes in South Africa, along the slopes of the Twelve Apostles to the boulders and white sand beaches of?Llandudno, with the route ending in?Hout Bay, a diverse bustling suburb with a harbour and a seal island. This fishing village is flanked by the Constantia valley and the picturesque?Chapman's Peak?drive.?Boulders Beach?near?Simon's Town?is known for its colony of?African penguins.?Surfing?is popular and the city hosts the?Red Bull Big Wave Africa?surfing competition every year.
The city has several notable cultural attractions. The?Victoria & Alfred Waterfront, built on top of part of the?docks?of the Port of Cape Town, is the city's most visited tourist attraction. It is also one of the city's most popular shopping venues, with several hundred shops as well as the?Two Oceans Aquarium.?The V&A also hosts the Nelson Mandela Gateway, through which?ferries?depart for?Robben Island.?It is possible to take a ferry from the V&A to?Hout Bay,?Simon's Town?and the?Cape fur seal?colonies on Seal and Duiker Islands. Several companies offer tours of the?Cape Flats, a mostly Coloured?township, and?Khayelitsha, a mostly black township.
The most popular areas for visitors to stay include Camps Bay,?Sea Point, the?V&A Waterfront, the?City Bowl,?Hout Bay,?Constantia,?Rondebosch,?Newlands, and?Somerset West.
In November 2013, Cape Town was voted the best global city in?The Daily Telegraph's annual Travel Awards.
Cape Town offers tourists a range of air, land and sea-based adventure activities, including?paragliding?and?skydiving.
The City of Cape Town works closely with Cape Town Tourism to promote the city both locally and internationally. The primary focus of Cape Town Tourism is to represent Cape Town as a tourist destination.?Cape Town Tourism receives a portion of its funding from the City of Cape Town while the remainder is made up of membership fees and own-generated funds.
The?Tristan da Cunha?government owns and operates a lodging facility in Cape Town which charges discounted rates to Tristan da Cunha residents and non-resident natives.
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