Table Mountain, two oceans and the Cape's wine country
Cape Town sits beneath the flat-topped wall of Table Mountain, reached by cableway or a steep hike up Platteklip Gorge. The V&A Waterfront is the departure point for Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela was held, while Bo-Kaap's brightly painted houses and the Castle of Good Hope tell older stories. Beyond the city, Chapman's Peak Drive curls down the Atlantic coast to Cape Point, and the penguins at Boulders Beach waddle among granite boulders near Simon's Town. Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden shows off the fynbos found only on the Cape.