The Horseshoe shaped area between Table Mountain and Signal Hill and Devils Peak is what the people of Cape Town call The City Bowl. Some of Cape Town’s oldest and wealthiest Victorian suburbs together with hotels, guest houses and restaurants are all situated here. Further down the slopes towards the Atlantic Ocean are the high rise blocks of Cape Town’s central business district and the Bo-Kaap (Cape Malay Area).

It is very easy to experience Cape Town on foot as most of the important sights and historic buildings are concentrated within a very compact area. The three main streets include Aderley, Strand and Long which are home to some fantastic colonial architecture that characterize the city’s history.

The Bo-Kaap is situated on the slopes of Signal Hill and is the city’s old Islamic Quarter and more recently has become a very trendy area to live and work. This region started to develop in the 1760s during the height of slavery in the Cape and today feels a world away from Cape Town city. Bo-Kaap has a web of tightly knit cobbled streets with houses painted in bright red, green and blue colors. The main museum here is an 18th century house still cialis 5mg tablets in the original form and dedicated to the Cape Muslim community.

The Castle of Good Hope is the oldest building in South Africa which was completed in 1679. The castle was originally built by the Dutch East India Company to defend the Cape Colony from their rival European powers and any potential threat from the indigenous tribes. The British seized control of the Cape in 1795 and used the castle as the government headquarters until 1917 when it became the South African Defence Force domain. Today this castle is visited by tourists to watch the changing of the guard and view the military museum.

The Slave lodge is the second oldest building in Cape Town and also built by the Dutch East India Company to house up to a 1000 slaves at a time. The conditions here were extremely harsh and up to 20% of the slaves who worked the Company gardens would die every year. Slavery was eventually abolished in the Cape in 1834 and the building was then used as the Supreme Court. The Slave Lodge today is home to The Cultural History museum focusing on the history and culture of the Dutch East India Company in the early days of the Cape Colony.

Table mountain cable car or a visit to one of the city’s beaches is only 10 to 20 minutes by car from the city center and taxi ranks are situated conveniently all over Cape Town.

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