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Afrique du Sud is the best-positioned seaside backpacker lodge/hostel in Cape Town. It nestles comfortably between the Atlantic Ocean and Lion's Head. - Accommodation and Facilities
Position, position, position - close to the sea and Olympic size seawater swimming pool. Only a short bus ride to Waterfront and city as well as famous Camps Bay and Clifton beaches. - Cape Town Backpacker Tours
Afrique du Sud Backpackers has a up-to-date, well organised and informed tour desk that will be able to help you with any adventure you might want to go on. - Cape Town Backpacker Information
Backpacker Information on the cable car, tablemountain, Cape Point, Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens, Robben Island, The Company's Garden, Constantia Vineyards, Boulders Beach, Chapman's Peak Drive, Beaches and the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront. - Contact and booking information
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Site Summary
Afrique Du Sud Backpacker Hostel Facilities
Fantastic facilities...
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| Chill Lounge & TV Room |
Sunset from balcony |
View | Chill-out room | Sleep like a baby |
Doubles. Singles. Dorms. Group rooms. 2 balconies with great views and 2 lounges - loads of space to lose yourself. Huge kitchen.
Outstanding features...
Position, position, position - close to the sea and Olympic size seawater swimming pool. Only a short bus ride to Waterfront and city as well as famous Camps Bay and Clifton beaches. Surrounded by shops, banks, coffee bars, restaurants, supermarkets. Discount vouchers for shops and restaurants in the area
Reasonable rates...
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| Double - R390 per room |
single - R260 | Economy double - R310 per room |
Dorm - R100 |
Discounts: ISIC, Moola Magic and also weekly and monthly rates
Room with a shower add R20 per day
Cape Town Backpacker Tours
Afrique du Sud Backpackers has a up-to-date, well organised and informed tour desk that will be able to help you with any adventure you might want to go on.
We can book day trips, overland tours or car hire for you at a very competative price. We also have our finger on the pulse of backpacking South Africa and can offer good advise on where to go to and what to see (also what to avoid).
Here is a taster of our top sellers out the Afrique Du Sud tour desk:
Cape
Point
Tours are conducted by qualified guides who provide entertaining commentary.
Begin with breakfast and a drive along the Atlantic seaboard to Hout Bay
where you can visit Duiker Island – home to a Cape Fur Seal colony. Visit
the penguins at Boulders Beach before heading off to the Cape Point Nature
Reserve. Enjoy a picnic lunch and explore the area on bicycles. Take a walk
out to Cape Point, the southwestern-most tip of Africa. The tour concludes
with a stop at Gina's African Art.
Cape
Winelands
We arrange a day-tour of four world class wine estates in the Stellenbosch,
Franshhoek and Paarl winelands. Tastings suit both amateurs and connoisseurs.
The tour includes a full cellar tour, a la carte lunch and salami, olive
and cheese tastings. Magnificent views of the winelands and the Cape Peninsula
can be enjoyed from various points along the route.
Township
Tours
We offer a choice of 2 half-day tours that will give you an insight into
the lives of township dwellers. The first township cultural experience takes
you to the District Six Musuem, Langa, the oldest township in Cape Town,
an African cooking school and to visit a Sangoma, a traditional healer.
The second is a walking tour that will help you understand the spirit of
sharing and giving that exists in the townships.
Shark
Cage-diving
Go on a trip to Dyer Island to see these misunderstood creatures of the
sea. 'Shark Alley' teems with great white sharks, especially during the
winter months. If you're feeling timid, go on a boat trip and watch the
curious sharks approach after being lured by sardine chum. If you're feeling
otherwise, don some scuba or snorkelling gear and descend into the water
to confront the sharks face to face. But from behind bars. Speak to the
staff at Afrique's travel desk to arrange Shark cage-diving.
Overland
Tours
We can offer the intrepid traveller 44 different tour options for travelling
through Africa. Choose from camping or accommodated trips around Southern
Africa, East Africa, Madagascar or Ethiopia.
Trips are led by enthusiastic, qualified guides in secure, comfortable trucks.
Car
Hire
We arrange the latest model cars at unbeatable rates. Look no further for
value for money and a reliable and personal service. There is no age restriction
and no hidden costs. Extras are included at no extra charge.
Cape Town Attractions
Table Mountain
This
World Heritage Site is Cape Town's most unique identifying landmark. Its
summit soars 1 086 m above sea level and can be reached by means of a revolving
cable car. Visitors can marvel at the awe-inspiring 360° view of Cape Town
while enjoying a meal or refreshing drink at the restaurant, or wandering
the rocky trails lined with beautiful fynbos. The mountain is, in fact,
covered with a wide variety of wild flowers and is the natural home of the
famous silver tree. It's a hiker's paradise, with walks of varying degrees
of difficulty to suit nature lovers and serious rock climbers alike.
Remember to watch the weather when planning a hike, and to make sure you've taken care of all the basic safety precautions!
Cape Point
This
landmark is part of Table Mountain National Park and is located at the end
of the Cape Peninsula. In 1488 Bartolomeus Dias rounded the Cape during
a dreadful storm. He subsequently named it the Cape of Storms. On a second
voyage, the weather was much kinder to him and he renamed it the Cape of
Good Hope. A few years later, Dias died while trying to round the Cape.
A monument in the form of a navigational beacon has been erected in the
Park in his honour. The Park offers a rich diversity of plant species as
well as a marine reserve and animals such as baboons and Cape Zebra. The
peak is 249m above sea level and can be reached by foot or the funicular
railway. The lighthouse at the tip of the Peninsula is the most powerful
in the Southern Hemisphere.
Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens
The
Kirstenbosch Estate covers 528 hectares, 36 hectares make up the central
landscaped garden on the eastern slopes of Table Mountain, it is home to
more than 8 500 indigenous plant species, and is known as one of the Seven
Magnificent Botanical Gardens of the world. Established in 1913, it only
grows indigenous South African plants. Kirstenbosch is best known for its
proteas (best in winter and spring) and summer sunset concerts and picnics.
There are hiking trails through the fynbos as well as guided tours, including
twilight nature walks. Kirstenbosch is a birdwatchers delight. Pack a picnic
basket or have a meal at the restaurant.
During the summer months, Kirstenbosch hosts sunset concerts each Sunday evening from 17h30 featuring some of the best and most well-known South African artists.
Robben Island
For
nearly 400 years, Robben Island, 12 kilometres from Cape Town, was a place
of banishment, exile, isolation and imprisonment. It was here that rulers
sent those they regarded as political troublemakers, social outcasts and
the unwanted of society. During the apartheid years Robben Island became
internationally known for its institutional brutality. The duty of those
who ran the Island and its prison was to isolate opponents of apartheid
and to crush their morale. Some freedom fighters spent more than a quarter
of a century in prison for their beliefs. Those imprisoned on the Island
succeeded on a psychological and political level in turning a prison 'hell-hole'
into a symbol of freedom and personal liberation. Robben Island came to
symbolise, not only for South Africa and the African continent, but also
for the entire world, the triumph of the human spirit over enormous hardship
and adversity.
The Company's Garden
Government
Walk – situated opposite the entrance to the Mount Nelson Hotel - leads
down to The Company Gardens, the oldest gardens in South Africa, established
by Jan van Riebeeck in 1652 as a vegetable garden to supply fresh produce
to passing ships. Today it contains a wide variety of indigenous and exotic
plants, shrubs and trees, an aviary and a restaurant. Its sun dial dates
back to 1787 and its bell tower, to 1855. Below the restaurant is a saffron
pear tree, the oldest cultivated tree in South Africa and believed to have
been planted shortly after Van Riebeeck established a settlement here.
Constantia Vineyards
The
cradle of the Wine Industry. Groot Constantia, Klein Constantia, Buitenverwachting,
Constantia Uitsig and Steenberg, are the five producers that make up the
Constantia Wine Route. These five Wine farms set the benchmark in the wine
industry winning numerous awards over the last decade that stand testimony
to the quality and consistently high standard of the wines. Constantia is
truly Cape Town’s own wine route. Only a few minutes drive from the city’s
centre, the breathtaking beauty of the valley and vineyards are unique in
a modern cosmopolitan environment, preserving the cultural and historical
heritage of the oldest wine area in the Cape. Experience a tasting tour
of premium wines with the individual service excellence that echoes the
hospitality extended to all visitors to the Constantia Valley.
Boulders Beach
They
are comical, clumsy and very eye-catching in their black and white dress.
In 1982 two breeding pairs of African penguins (once known as Jackass penguins
because of the braying sound they make) moved into prime beachfront estate
at Boulders beach between Simonstown and Cape Point. Today there are over
3 000 of these birds living here and the area is now a National Park. Penguins
can be viewed up close as they frolic in the water and waddle on land. Sometimes
it’s hard to tell who is watching who. You’re likely to see penguin pairs
strolling along the boardwalks and in the park. This is the one place in
the world you will be able to swim and sunbathe with penguins. In a survey
done by the BBC, Boulders Beach was rated one of the five best beaches to
visit before you die. All in all, a great place to meet the locals!
Chapman's Peak Drive
Chapman’s
Peak Drive between Noordhoek and Hout Bay on the Atlantic Coast on the south-western
tip of South Africa is one of the most spectacular marine drives in the
world. The 9km route with its 114 curves skirts Chapman Peak, the 593 m
southerly extension of Constantiaberg and follows the rocky coastline to
unfold stunning views in both directions.
Chapman's Peak Drive, originally known as the Hout Bay - Noorde Hoek Road,
is a natural asset and resource, and is of strategic economic importance
to business, local residents and tourism. This scenic route is now a toll-road.
Beaches
Cape
Town's many clean, natural beaches are considered among the most beautiful
in the world, spectacularly situated between sea and mountain, from False
Bay to the Atlantic Coast. Sun-worshippers, nature lovers and watersports
enthusiasts alike are spoilt for choice! Just 10 minutes from the hotel,
Clifton and Camps Bay are sheltered from the southeaster wind, and are perfect
for sunbathing, Frisbee throwing, swimming and sundowners. Surfing spots
abound, as well as excellent spots for scubadiving, boardsailing and fishing.
For those afraid to brave the invigorating sea temperatures of the Atlantic
coast, a scenic drive to False Bay offers warmer waters at popular Muizenberg,
Kalk Bay or Simonstown. With the exception of Boulders Beach in False Bay,
entrance to all Cape Town's lovely beaches is free. All our city asks is
that visitors respect the unspoilt natural environment by taking their litter
home with them and refraining from making fires.
Victoria & Alfred Waterfront
The
V&A Waterfront is one of South Africa’s most visited destination. Against
a backdrop of sea and mountain views, the Waterfront is a mixed-use development
incorporating a working harbour and is also home to designer label stores,
national retailers, boutiques and services, along with a spread of excellent
restaurants, coffee shops and fast-food outlets. There are also two cinema
complexes and craft markets, offering visitors the best of everything Cape
Town and the Western Cape have to offer. The development of office locations
and luxury apartments complements the vibrancy of the V&A Waterfront.
The area is a centuries old harbour that remains fully operational and visitors
can view the many ships and sailing vessels in the small craft basin. The
Two Oceans Aquarium, situated at the V&A Waterfront, is a window on
the local oceans, offering glimpses of the diverse life found off the South
African coastline.
Text courtesy of www.cape-town.org
Images courtesy of South African Tourism