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Cape Town Airport

Cape Town International Airport is South Africa's second largest airport and won the title "Leading Airport in Africa" at the World Travel Awards four years running. The International Arrivals Terminal provides banking, the Airport Surgery and baby-changing facilities and car rental services. The International Departures Terminal accommodates many shops, a smokers' lounge with internet facilities, baby-changing facilities and banking.

The airport has a policy of ensuring that disabled facilities are included in all buildings to make it a user-friendly environment for every visitor. There are parking bays along the full length of the airport, offering easy access to the terminal buildings. Shuttle cabs can also transport passengers directly from their cars to the building. The airport is 22 kilometres from the city centre, and transport options include car rental services, metered taxis and shuttle services

Cape Town

Cape Town has some of the best beaches in the world, from family beaches on the False Bay coastline to white, sandy beaches on the Atlantic Seaboard offering beautiful views and spectacular sunsets. Lifeguards are on duty at all major beaches and surfing is popular.

Cape Town has a vibrant nightlife: excellent restaurants, often open till midnight, present a range of cuisine from Mediterranean to Asian, local Cape Malay and traditional African meals, while the bar and restaurant on top of Table Mountain has an aerial view of the city. The city centre offers a range of clubs including a gay scene. Alternatively, head to Grand West Casino for a glitzy night. Cape Winelands offers breathtaking vistas and majestic mountain backdrops, rolling vineyards, quaint Cape Dutch homesteads and award-wining wine farms. Divided into different regions, each offering their own 'wine route', the most popular are Stellenbosch, Franschhoek, Wellington and Paarl, with wine tasting & cellar tours. Approximately an hour and a half away from Cape Town is the seaside town of Hermanus, offering the best land-based whale watching in the world.

Dates for your diary

• In March the North Sea Jazz Festival takes place.
• December to March Kirstenbosch Gardens host the Summer Sunset Concert series to which visitors may bring picnics.
• Between August and November the bay is dotted with whales happy to put on a performance. Visitors can walk along the cliff path to see whales as close as 20 metres away.
• January is time of the Standard Bank Jazzathon, when the Cape Minstrels perform in the streets.
• The town is generally busy December – January and during the annual Whale Festival in late September each year.
  

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Things to do in Cape Town

• Cape Town offers landmark beaches. Boulders Beach is home to the African Penguin while the popular beaches of Blouberg offer beautiful views of Table Mountain across the bay and are a great whale-watching viewpoint.
• The vibrant V&A Waterfront and Cape Town city centre,
• Award winning wine farms and scenic drives around the peninsula.
• The South African National Gallery displays local paintings and sculpture. The Gold of Africa museum showcases gold artefacts, a studio and boutique.