City Lodge Cape Town

... Game Drives and try to catch a glimpse of the "Big Five" (lion, buffalo, leopard, elephant and rhino). Lovely and Lively Cape Town - described as the most beautiful cape in the world, this city is the second-most populated city in the country and the ...

... was in awe up there.  The cold air up there took away most of my breath but the view finished me off.  The city of Cape Town was strewn below before the cliffs climbed along to Camps Bay. I spent an hour a top the mountain on a cloudless day ...

... a big deal since I got see some amazing places along the way, including Bo-Kaap, the Castle of Good Hope, and Cape Town City Hall, where Nelson Mandela said his first speech after being released from prison. Along the way, I noticed how the weather can ...

... .  So, it was one foot in front of the other and we reached the peak at 1pm.  There was a beautiful view of Cape Town city while climbing.  The climb wasn’t as bad as I expected and it was a climb of about 700m. When we reached the ...

... the group. On Friday, I will be renting a car and driving north to Roger Young’s B&B which is a 2 hour drive north of Cape Town. Then on Sunday, we drop the car off at Cape Town airport and fly to Joburg. Then we leave on Monday for Hong Kong ...

... eventually about half our plane was just waved through! However we arrived an hour late in Johannesburg and missed our connecting flight to Cape town but the redoubtable Karen got us all booked onto the next flight an hour later. This was no mean feat as ...

... worked in. I went to work in Cape Town to establish a new sports project. I was living in Nelly's lodge which is in the Observatory area of Cape Town and where our volunteers are based as well as a lot of international students. Living in the lodge ...

... we were both pretty tired so we decided to have a rest at a conveniently placed bar where the best views of the city could be seen. Cape Town really is the most beautiful city I have ever seen and looking down on it from one of the most famous mountains ...

Richard As we trundled into Cape Town on the Saturday morning the sun was shining and we had a great view of Table Mountain and the city spread out beneath. Although finding somewhere to stay had proved a bit tricky - we were arriving on the same ...

... an hour early at 9.30am this morning. I got a filling breakfast on the plane of omelette, sausage, mushrooms and fried tomato. Cape Town must be the quickest international airport I've ever got through. It took about 5 minutes to get through immigration, ...

It's hard not to love a visit to Cape Town, a grand old city, one of the finest anywhere.  It's the oldest city in Southern African and has been captivating tourist's hearts for centuries.    A blend of old colonial ...

... . The viewing was better on the surface than in the water. So all in all, the day was quite successful and we returned to Cape Town satisfied. The next day it was off to Jo Burg for safari. By coincidence Judie's mum, sister and brother in law were in ...

... ).  There is no opportunity to get out and take pictures until we reach an old guard house that has wonderful views of Cape Town and Table Mountain.  We have a 10 minute stop before being loaded back on the bus and head for the Maximum ...

... the downtown core and the waterfront. We also went to the National Gallery to view a Picasso in Africa exhibit. Cape Town is a very beautiful city and very modern and affluent. The number of luxury cars was just astounding, Ferraris, Bentlys, Benzs, ...

... I found myself in the middle of an intersection and had to leg it across 5 lanes of traffic.  Slightly scary!!  Cape Town is a nice city, the people seem friendly and it has loads of cool shops and bars.  I ate lunch at a nice little ...

... of class. The first two weeks were all orientation. The group of about 100 of us stayed in two seperate hotels in donwtown Cape Town and sat through orientation activities for about 5 hours each day. This was not a very pleasant experience, as South ...

... we waked up instead of the cable car. The cable car was fully utilised on our downward journey. Don't think the taxi driver had ever climbed it. "easy". We got a different taxi back... We're leaving Cape Town on Sunday morning, heading to Stellenbosch. ...

Yesterday afternoon I got into Cape Town after a 10-hour flight on Emarites.  It was again a great flight (one of my meals was butter chicken!), and I was actually able to sleep, so that was nice. At the airport I met up with a shuttle to take me ...

... map seems to be an accurate representation! Thanks to Tom's commitment to all things football we also went and had a tour around the Cape Town Stadium which was used in the World Cup. Our attempt to get tickets for Sweden vs Botswana sadly failed, we were ...

... sanctuary and next door was one of the Worlds largest averies, they must have had every type of African bird. Then to Cape Town.....the British & Irish Lions were in town so the red shirts were everywhere in their thousands.....didn't help though as ...

... up and the drive over was just amazingly beautiful. I've heard from so many well seasoned travellers that Cape Town is the most beautiful city in the world and it certainly didn't dissapoint. We drove through, around and past spectacular mountains with ...