The City of Cape Town
Cape Town lies in one of the most spectacular settings of any of the world’s principal cities.
The massive sandstone bulk of Table Mountain,
flanked by Devil’s Peak, Lion’s Head and Signal Hill, provides not only
a monumental approach to South Africa from the sea and air, this
mountain also actually fathered the city and decisively influenced its
growth, climate, layout and general development.
Table
Mountain, although no giant as world peaks go ( 1086 meter ), is
certainly one of the best known of all mountains, in the year 2009
Cape Town was handing in a bid to enter Table Mountain to the new seven
wonders of the world.
The Cape Peninsula
The drive around the
Cape Peninsula is one of the most famous scenic experiences in the
world, it is strikingly varied, combining scenery that is both dramatic
and charming with a piquant atmosphere.
From the time of its first discovery, the serenely
beautiful Cape Peninsula with its interesting ocean currents, its
marine fauna, and its unique scents and flavors, was accepted as a
merging place surrounded by the Atlantic and Indian Ocean.
At
Cape Point and the Cape of Good Hope comes the full weight of enormous
rollers (Waves) created in the disturbance of the meeting of two great
ocean currents,the Benguela and the Mozambique - Agulhas.
The Cape Coastal Beach Resorts
The
Mountains, that form the backbone of the peninsula, slope steeply down
to the sea, and the many sheltered bays, beaches and coves provide the
holiday resorts for which the Cape is famous.
Cape Town is
engulfed with famous Beaches like Clifton, Camps Bay to name a few.
Muizenberg, on the shores of false Bay has one of the country’s finest
surfing beaches. South of Muizenberg are St. James, Kalk Bay, Fish Hoek, and Simons town.
Boulders Beach
Who would have figured that the Boulders beach
rank at 20 in a survey of the New York Times reader's top tourist
destinations in the world. The list of 44 was headed by the city of
Beirut, Lebanon, with South Africa ranked above the Seychelles,
Madagascar and Egypt.
