South Africa Travels Blog

Cape Town is never complete without a few visits to its relaxing beaches. There are three areas of beaches here in Cape Town: False Bay, Atlantic Seaboard, and West Coast. I do find that each beach has its own beauty to explore. The False Bay area has both sandy beaches and some rocky divisions. The Atlantic Seaboard area is well known for its sunset view, because it faces the west. The West Coast beaches are great for surfing and for flying kites because of the winds and surf conditions.

A photo of Camps Bay Beach in Cape Town.

If your idea of ideal Cape Town includes entertainment and shopping, then you absolutely must come and see Victoria & Alfred Waterfront. Coming to the waterfront while on holiday will ensure a good time is had by all. Come and experience delicious, fine dining, local entertainment, live music, and much more. There are also tourist attractions such as an aquarium and museums. Cape Town is an incredibly alluring, beautiful, busy, fascinating, and entertaining location to spend your holiday. I sincerely hope you all will consider coming sometime soon to Cape Town South Africa. I absolutely love this town!

Situated as it is on the shores of one of the country’s largest permanent estuaries and close to the largest area of indigenous forest, Knysna has an atmosphere about it of sea and forest that is unique.

Part old world charm of the Cape, part bustling tourist town, it cannot be explored in a day, nor can the grandeur of its setting on the lagoon’s edge be appreciated without a drive up to the top of the horseshoe of green hills ;that surround it.

Perhaps the best introductory view is from the summit of the eastern Heads, a drive of ten fifteen minutes from the centre of town. Here the cliffs fall away sheer to the sea where it thunders white against red walls far below. This narrow rocky gorge is the famous Knysna Bar with all its evocative history of sailing ships seeking the calm waters of the lagoon beyond.

From this deep blue channel between the cliffs with its great flood of salt water that cleanses the whole lagoon basin with a refreshing tide each day, the colour of the estuarine water changes dramatically and in an unending combination of green and turquoise, denoting sand bars or mud flats or deep gullies.

Leisure Island with its newly built growth of holiday homes is the flat land mass immediately below as you stand looking towards the north. This newly popular residential area is bordered by a beach of white sand, creating unbeatable bathing and boating conditions stretching across to the Heads.

Across the channel, the Brenton Hills sweep majestically westwards to Belvidere with its historic Norman Church and on up along the Knysna River to where it emerges from its forested canyon, nearly ten Kilometres from the Heads.
The lagoon is Knysna’s playground and it is undoubtedly one of the finest sailing, swimming and fishing centres in South Africa.