Cape Town, with its awesome landscapes and vibrant culture, is a city that appeals to adventurers and sports enthusiasts of all sorts from around the globe. While Cape Town offers more activities and excitement than you could dream of, one sport has been soaring to new heights, quite literally, on the beaches and green fields …
Wondering what our South African public holidays are, and what they were created to celebrate? Let’s explore! Many of our public holidays have deep roots in our country’s social and political struggles. For instance, Freedom Day is about remembering our first democratic elections in 1994, while Youth Day pays tribute to the young adults who …
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If you’re looking to become more other-oriented and give back to the community, there are a number of really great options in Cape Town. Whether you’re interested in volunteering with animals, environmental conservation, or humanitarian initiatives, there are ways that you can genuinely help. We’ve divided this article into 4 different niches – with information …
Cape Town is one of the most biodiverse cities in the world, and is at the centre of the world’s smallest and richest plant kingdom. The Cape Floristic Region contains over 9000 plant species, and 70% of these are found nowhere else on earth (i.e. they’re endemic)! Table Mountain National Park alone has more recorded …
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While living sustainably as an individual doesn’t affect much of the big picture stuff, like carbon emissions, it can still do a lot of good. To live in a way that supports local small businesses and local ecologically sustainable farming practices, that saves our limited water sources, and that limits the amount of plastic going …
It is incredibly difficult to make people take meaningful action on climate change and biodiversity loss, as has been made clear over the past 30 years. There are arguably two reasons for this: firstly, people often have a natural reluctance to engage with the implications of climate and ecological breakdown. In other words, very few …
Cape Town is a fantastically beautiful city, with epic mountains, oceans abundant with life, unique biospheres of plantlife, and a wonderful local culture of diversity and joy-despite-hardship. It’s a great city. But the question most foreigners I’ve talked to ask me is the crime and danger aspect. Isn’t Cape Town unsafe? Because of course, it …
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This post is to help both tourists to Cape Town and our citizens to support local! Small businesses without advertising budgets and a place on the grocery shelves struggle to survive in the age of convenience. But if we know where to find them, we can use our money to support better practices – and …
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The iconic mountain at Cape Town’s center really is the heart of the city. With its flat peak often wreathed in cloud cover, its base forms the hilly home of all our favourite suburbs, from Sea Point to Newlands. Table Mountain is the site of most of Cape Town’s best hiking trails and mountain biking …
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