West Coast Travel Guide

	West Coast Travel Guide
	Beaches Bloubergstrand: These beaches are all magnificent and scenic with a spectacular view of Table Mountain. Big Bay has the most popular beaches of this group. It is a surfing haven. Sometimes even national and international surfing competitions are held here. Little Bay is more suitable for children and relaxed sunbathers. Eerste Steen, Tweede Steen and Derde Steen are off Otto Du Plessis drive and offer the best fishing and picnic facilities in this area. Dolphin Beach: This peaceful beach is ideal for casual swimming, sunbathing and walks. Whales have been spotted here. There are basic facilities like benches. Toilets and shops and restaurant along the roads. Melkosstrand: It is named after the Milkwood trees that grow north of the town. These beaches offer great fishing and picnic spots and are excellent for skin diving. There are also some spectacular views to be seen. These beaches have a sort of a relaxed feel to them. Milnerton: This beach is perfect swimming, surfing, beach walks. There is also a famous lighthouse. It is safely manned by lifesavers. Silwerstroomstrand: It is of the R7, near Atlantis. This beach offers barbecue and picnic facilities, swimming, sunbathing and even a tidal pool for the children. It is also ideal for camping. Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden is world-renowned for the beauty and diversity of the Cape flora and is displayed fantastically over 528 hectares of diverse fynbos flora and natural forestry. It’s set against the slope of Table Mountain so as you walk around looking at all kinds of indigenous plants you have a great view of the eastern side of Table Mountain. Robben Island Robben Island was a place of exile, isolation and imprisonment nearly 12 kilometers from Cape Town. It was a place where the social outcasts or the troublemakers of politics, were sent by the rulers at that time. Robben Island today is a significant part of each ones life as Nelson Mandela spent a large proportion of his 27 years of imprisonment on the island. Of course one of the main attractions on the Island is his old cell. Page Created by the pupils of Sunningdale Private School ©

West Coast Travel Guide

Beaches

Bloubergstrand: These beaches are all magnificent and scenic with a spectacular view of Table Mountain. Big Bay has the most popular beaches of this group. It is a surfing haven. Sometimes even national and international surfing competitions are held here. Little Bay is more suitable for children and relaxed sunbathers. Eerste Steen, Tweede Steen and Derde Steen are off Otto Du Plessis drive and offer the best fishing and picnic facilities in this area.

Dolphin Beach: This peaceful beach is ideal for casual swimming, sunbathing and walks. Whales have been spotted here. There are basic facilities like benches. Toilets and shops and restaurant along the roads.

Melkosstrand: It is named after the Milkwood trees that grow north of the town. These beaches offer great fishing and picnic spots and are excellent for skin diving. There are also some spectacular views to be seen. These beaches have a sort of a relaxed feel to them.

Milnerton: This beach is perfect swimming, surfing, beach walks. There is also a famous lighthouse. It is safely manned by lifesavers.

Silwerstroomstrand: It is of the R7, near Atlantis. This beach offers barbecue and picnic facilities, swimming, sunbathing and even a tidal pool for the children. It is also ideal for camping.

Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens

Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden is world-renowned for the beauty and diversity of the Cape flora and is displayed fantastically over 528 hectares of diverse fynbos flora and natural forestry. It’s set against the slope of Table Mountain so as you walk around looking at all kinds of indigenous plants you have a great view of the eastern side of Table Mountain.

Robben Island

Robben Island was a place of exile, isolation and imprisonment nearly 12 kilometers from Cape Town. It was a place where the social outcasts or the troublemakers of politics, were sent by the rulers at that time. Robben Island today is a significant part of each ones life as Nelson Mandela spent a large proportion of his 27 years of imprisonment on the island. Of course one of the main attractions on the Island is his old cell.