About Cape Tourism

Cape Tourism publishes practical guides to one region: the Western Cape. Cape Town, the Winelands, the Garden Route, the West Coast and the peninsula - where to stay in each, what things cost in rand, when the weather makes a plan work or ruin it, and how to get between them without a car when you have not hired one. The test for every page is whether it changes a decision.

One region, covered properly, rather than a page for every country in Africa. The Western Cape has two seasons that behave in opposite ways, a wind that closes the cable car, and distances that look shorter on a map than they drive, so most of the value on this site is in being specific about timing and logistics rather than in listing attractions.

Facts come from primary sources. Park and reserve access, permits and opening times are checked against SANParks and CapeNature; transport against the operator; and anything about safety is written as what to do rather than as reassurance or alarm, because both are useless to someone deciding whether to walk somewhere at six in the evening. Anything numeric carries the date it was checked, because a price without a date is not information. Geographic data comes from GeoNames and OpenStreetMap, photographs from Wikimedia Commons under their individual Creative Commons licences, and time zone data from the IANA database.

We do not accept payment for a placement, a ranking or a favourable review. Where a link earns a commission, the page carrying it says so. We do not claim to have tested something we have not: plan details and prices that come from a provider rather than from our own checking are labelled as such. And we do not publish a page to fill a gap in a keyword list.

If something here is wrong, tell us and we will fix it and say that we did. Email [email protected] with the page and what is inaccurate. Corrections to a specific fact are made on the page, and the update date on the page changes with them.