cape-town
Entdecke Routen, Sehenswürdigkeiten und Reiseführer in Cape Town.
9 Routen
Distrikt Sechs, das Apartheid-Museum & Kapstadts Geschichte
District Six (the former inner-city neighbourhood of Cape Town, declared a 'Whites Only' area under the Group Areas Act in 1966 and completely demolished between 1968 and 1982, displacing approximately 60,000 residents — one of the most notorious acts of apartheid social engineering in South Africa): the District Six Museum (the most important museum of apartheid history in Cape Town, established in 1994 in the former Central Methodist Mission church) preserves the memory of the community and documents the crime of forced removals.
Stellenbosch, Franschhoek & das Weinland — Südafrikas Weinherz
Das Kap-Weinland (50 km östlich von Kapstadt) ist die älteste Weinregion der südlichen Hemisphäre, mit Stellenbosch und Franschhoek als den beiden Zentren der Kap-Weinkultur und der südafrikanischen Gastronomie.
Braai-Kultur, Kapmalaiische Küche & der Geschmack Kapstadts
Kapstadt hat die vielfältigste und interessanteste Esskultur im subsaharischen Afrika, kombiniert kapmalaiische Küche, afrikanische Braai-Kultur und eine zeitgenössische Gastronomie-Szene rund um den Old Biscuit Mill Markt und die Restaurants in Woodstock.
Kirstenbosch & das Kapflorenreich — Der Artenreichste Garten der Welt
Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden (on the eastern slopes of Table Mountain, 13 km from Cape Town — the finest botanical garden in Africa and one of the great botanical gardens of the world, established 1913 on land bequeathed to the nation by Cecil Rhodes (who died in 1902), covering 528 hectares (of which 7 hectares are cultivated gardens and the rest is natural fynbos): Kirstenbosch was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2004 (as part of the Cape Floristic Region), the only botanical garden in the world to be inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Hai-Käfig-Tauchen & Walbeobachtung — Die Meerestierwelt des Kaps
Great white shark cage diving at Gansbaai (the coastal town 170 km east of Cape Town, known as the 'Great White Shark Capital of the World' — the highest density of great white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) in the world is found in the waters between Dyer Island and Geyser Rock (the 'Shark Alley'), driven by the large Cape fur seal colony (approximately 60,000 seals) on Geyser Rock): the cage diving operators (Marine Dynamics, White Shark Projects, Great White Shark Tours) have operated at Gansbaai since the 1990s and the experience has become one of the most iconic wildlife encounters in South Africa.
Table Mountain, die Seilbahn & das City Bowl — Kapstadts Natürliches Wahrzeichen
Kapstadt wird von Table Mountain dominiert — dem 3 km breiten Tafelberg, der direkt hinter der Stadtschüssel aufsteigt, eines der Sieben Neuen Weltwunder der Natur (2011) und UNESCO-Welterbe seit 2004.
Kaphalbisel-Fahrt — Cape Point, Pinguine & Chapman's Peak
Die Kaphalbinsel (75 km südlich von Kapstadt, Teil des Tafelberg-Nationalparks, UNESCO-Welterbe) bietet eine der großen Panoramafahrten der Welt: Cape Point, die Pinguinkolonie am Boulders Beach und die spektakuläre Chapman's Peak Drive.
Kapstadt-Townships — Langa, Khayelitsha & die Lebendige Kultur der Cape Flats
Cape Town's townships (the residential areas on the Cape Flats, established under apartheid to house the Black and Coloured populations forcibly removed from the city and its suburbs — the largest concentration of urban poverty in South Africa outside Johannesburg): Langa (the oldest township in Cape Town, established 1927, now a centre of Xhosa cultural life in Cape Town), Khayelitsha (the largest township in the Cape, established 1983 during apartheid, now home to approximately 1.2 million people), and Gugulethu (established 1958) are the principal destinations for township tourism, which has become one of the most significant cultural tourism sectors in Cape Town since the end of apartheid.
Clifton & Camps Bay — Kapstadts Atlantische Strandküste
The Atlantic Seaboard (the coastal strip along the western side of the Cape Peninsula, between Sea Point and Hout Bay — the most fashionable residential and beach area in Cape Town): Clifton's four beaches (First, Second, Third, and Fourth Clifton Beach — the sheltered white-sand beaches in the coves below the Clifton apartment buildings, protected from the southerly winds by the granite boulders, with the waters of the Benguela Current (notoriously cold — typically 12-14°C in summer, cold enough to prevent swimming for all but the hardiest)) and Camps Bay (the wide beach below the Twelve Apostles, with its famous strip of restaurants and beach bars on Victoria Road) are the defining beach experiences in Cape Town.