Apartments and Villas in Cape Town
Despite finding yourself in one of the most vibrant, cosmopolitan (and hectic!) cities in South Africa, villas and apartments in Cape Town will show you a destination positively bursting with areas of outstanding natural beauty, including the famous Cape Floral Kingdom - a coastal region linking Cape Town to the Eastern Cape whose diversity of unspoilt habitats and sheer scenic splendour has led to it being more commonly referred to as 'the Garden Route'. As the provincial capital of Western Cape and the legislative epicentre of South Africa, apartments and villas in Cape Town provide the ideal opportunity to experience one of the world's undisputed historical and cultural heavyweights, and explore a city noted as much for its abundance of Cape Dutch architectural heritage as the contemporary styling of the Victoria and Alfred Waterfront. Transformed from the historic Port of Cape Town to one of the most exciting venues for shopping, leisure and entertainment in Western Cape, you can just as easily spend your money at one of many chic boutiques and trendy restaurants at the Victoria and Alfred Waterfront as catch a ferry to Robben Island - a former high security penitentiary that once incarcerated over 3000 prisoners (including Nelson Mandela) and is now a World Heritage Site and popular destination for many of the tourists visiting the city each year and renting holiday apartments in Cape Town.
With excellent transport networks throughout the whole of Western Cape, bed and breakfasts or apartments and villas in Cape Town make an excellent starting point for travelling beyond the city limits and into the 'Wineland' towns of Stellenbosch, Paarl and Franschhoek for some sight-seeing, wine-tasting and a closer look at a rapidly expanding wine industry, and then further on to examine the rich variety of eco-systems and environments that contribute to the uniqueness of South Africa's picturesque Garden Route. Villa and apartment rentals in Cape Town provide enough versatility to accommodate anything from a passion for modern culture to a respect for ancient history, both of which can be found living in perfect harmony at the heart of this dynamic yet charismatic city. But the real jewel in the crown of Cape Town is its spectacular setting at the northern end of the Cape Peninsula literally surrounded by mountains that don't disappear until they tumble dramatically into the ocean around 75 kms to the south at Cape Point where the Cape of Good Hope - a rocky headland jutting out into the Atlantic - still proves to be an important landmark and as significant a milestone to modern yachtsmen and women as it always has been to ancient mariners.
Table Mountain is Cape Town's most prominent (and well-known) topographical feature that, together with Devil's Peak, Lion's Head and Signal Hill, forms a breathtaking backdrop to a city that faces the wild Atlantic Ocean. The Table Mountain National Park embraces the rugged mountain terrain that stretches the entire length of the Cape Peninsula and north-west to south-east across it from the Atlantic Seaboard to the waters of the False Bay Coast, and even though many people return to the same villa or apartment in Cape Town each year just so that they can continue on their quest to discover and re-discover as much as they can about this truly magnificent collection of landscapes, a simple journey on the Table Mountain Aerial Cableway can allow you to enjoy some of them without having to break into a sweat! However, this is highly likely during a February or March in Cape Town without any physical exertion at all as the Berg Wind blowing from the Karoo - a semi-desert interior region of Western Cape - can make conditions unbearably hot, despite summer temperatures otherwise averaging at a maximum of 26°C across the city. The Cape Peninsula has well-defined seasons so winter reliably runs from May to September when most of the area's rainfall can be anticipated, but whatever the weather's doing in this fascinating corner of Western Cape, holiday villas and apartment rentals in Cape Town can show you a city with something exciting to do and beautiful to see at any time of the year.