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Cape Town
How do you reconcile Cape Town's brutal history with the pursuit of pleasure? Let Lonely Planet guide you through the townships, wineries and jazz joints of Africa's most hedonistic seaside city.
200 pages, Paperback
First published March 1, 1996
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April 16, 2020Not gonna rate this until we can actually travel there. Hoping everyone stays home to help that be sooner rather than later.
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May 9, 2012
I really liked reading the South African history section and the different parts of cape town section. I find myself re-reading those parts. It was very informative, and helped me a lot in terms of understanding what people talked about when they refer to Boers, Afrikaan culture and the ANC's role in the country/Cape Town.
Since I don't enjoy nightclubs/alcohol, I found the two chapters on it absolutely useless. I also hardly ate at the places I ticked on the book because the good places to eat are sometimes not even mentioned. For food and places to shop, I think it's better to spontaneously find your way around. Cape Town has such good food, and I was constantly eating. I gained 2kg, which is a feat, since I never gain weight. I did visit two of the cool book shops I saw in this book though, which was awesome! Spent a good couple of hours reading there.
I also enjoyed the bits at the back reassuring, from tips to getting around with buses/trains to tips for travelling as a solo female traveller. It probably would've helped if it had more info on how to get around with minibuses as it was pretty safe for me and they were most easy to use. If there was a map of train stations, it would've been really helpful for me.
I enjoyed my stay and I'm really glad that this small book helped guide me to go to new places on the map I would otherwise have not gone to. But generally, the best times I had was with various South Africans I became friends with who showed me the place around or with other foreigners I randomly met who had no idea what to do for the day. Books help show me where the place is, but the people are the ones who left me a good impression/feel of the various place.
Since I don't enjoy nightclubs/alcohol, I found the two chapters on it absolutely useless. I also hardly ate at the places I ticked on the book because the good places to eat are sometimes not even mentioned. For food and places to shop, I think it's better to spontaneously find your way around. Cape Town has such good food, and I was constantly eating. I gained 2kg, which is a feat, since I never gain weight. I did visit two of the cool book shops I saw in this book though, which was awesome! Spent a good couple of hours reading there.
I also enjoyed the bits at the back reassuring, from tips to getting around with buses/trains to tips for travelling as a solo female traveller. It probably would've helped if it had more info on how to get around with minibuses as it was pretty safe for me and they were most easy to use. If there was a map of train stations, it would've been really helpful for me.
I enjoyed my stay and I'm really glad that this small book helped guide me to go to new places on the map I would otherwise have not gone to. But generally, the best times I had was with various South Africans I became friends with who showed me the place around or with other foreigners I randomly met who had no idea what to do for the day. Books help show me where the place is, but the people are the ones who left me a good impression/feel of the various place.
May 7, 2019
not super easy to navigate on the city bits
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