Top 10 Attractions

1 Cape Town - The Mother City: The centre of Cape Town is located at the northern end of the Cape Peninsula. Table Mountain forms a dramatic backdrop to the City Bowl, with its plateau over 1,000 m (3,300 ft) high; it is surrounded by near-vertical cliffs, Devil's Peak and Lion's Head.

2 Table Mountain:The main feature of Table Mountain is the level plateau approximately 3 kilometres (2 mi) from side to side, edged by impressive cliffs. The plateau, flanked by Devil's Peak to the east and by Lion's Head to the west, forms a dramatic backdrop to Cape Town.

3 Kirstenbosch Gardens: The garden is one of eight National Botanical Gardens covering five of South Africa's six different biomes. When Kirstenbosch, the most famous of the gardens, was founded in 1913 to preserve the country's unique flora, it was the first botanical garden in the world with this ethos. Furthermore, what makes the Gardens so famous worldwide is that only indigenous plants are cultivated.

4 Cape Point Nature Reserve: The Cape Point or Cape of Good Hope, situated at the south-western tip of Africa, is a place well known for treacherous seas, troubling many a ship as they passed from Atlantic Ocean to Indian Ocean. Around the park there are numerous walking trails for you to explore. There is a funicular that will take you right to the tip where you are able to look back at the beauty of Cape Point, Cape Town and it surrounds.

5 Robben Island: The name is Dutch for "seal island". Robben Island is roughly oval in shape, 3.3 km long north-south, and 1.9 km wide, with an area of 5.07 km². It is flat and only a few metres above sea level, as a result of an ancient erosion event.

6 The Cape Wines Routes: Rolling vineyards and quaint Cape Dutch home await you, as well as award-wining wine farms offering some of the country's best wines. The most popular or well-known are Stellenbosch, Franschhoek, Wellington and Paarl. The best way to discover the winelands is by car, where you can stop of your own accord at the wine estates.

7 Southern Most Tip Of Africa: Geologically, the rocks found at the two capes, and indeed over much of the peninsula, are part of the Table Mountain Group, and are formed of the same type of sandstones as Table Mountain itself. Both the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Point offer spectacular scenery, the whole of the southernmost portion of the Cape Peninsula is a wild, rugged, scenic and generally unspoiled national park.

8 Knysna Forest: The Knysna-Amatole montane forests is a subtropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion of South Africa. It covers an area of 3100 square kilometers (1200 square miles) in South Africa's Eastern Cape and Western Cape provinces.

9 Wildflowers of The West Coast: The West Coast flower region, an integral part of the Cape Fynbos Kingdom, boasts more than 1200 species of flowering plants. About 80 of these are endemic to the West Coast and known nowhere else. The rich flora of the West Coast occurs on mainly three different soil types, culminating in three distinctive vegetation types, namely, Strandveld, Renosterveld and Sandveld.

10 Karoo Regions: The Karoo a Khoisan word of uncertain etymology is a semi-desert region of South Africa. It has two main sub-regions - the Great Karoo in the north and the Little Karoo in the south. The 'High' Karoo is one of the distinct physiographic provinces of the larger South African Platform division.