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Chapmans Peak

Top things to do in Cape Town for under R100

Posted by popcorncandi on October 8, 2014 4 Comments

Exploring this beautiful city does not need to cost you money. We are lucky enough to have all of this nature and culture and opportunity around us constantly, so it’s easy to tap into when you’re on month-end 2-minute noodles (or anytime, really). Since I moved to Cape Town just under 7 months ago, I have managed to explore the crap out of it without even making a dent. What is even more exciting is that a lot of what you do here doesn’t have to cost you much, or can cost you nothing at all.

I’m constantly doing something fun (and posting my pics to Instagram as proof – ha ha) and my Facebook album “Exploring Cape Town” has become too full to manage anymore. It’s time I started sharing this stuff with you in categories, I guess! So here’s the top things to do in Cape Town for under R100, based on my experience in the past 7 months of living in and loving beautiful Cape Town!

Picnicking on Chapman’s Peak

Here’s a familiar scenario for you. Sunday afternoon, lazy, month-end and no money. Bored.

Option 1: Catch up on series and eat home made popcorn

Option 2: Nap

Option 3: Grab a book, a picnic blanket, a bottle of wine and a friend and go chill on Chapman’s Peak. You’re likely to see something in that water. I’ve often sat and watched dolphins playing in Hout Bay and on this day, caught a pair of whales having a frolick in the bay!

Whale Watching Chapmans Peak

Whale Watching Chapmans Peak Hout Bay

Cost: Nothing. Only a bottle of wine out of your wine rack.

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Hiking, anywhere

One of my favourites! There are so many hiking trails to choose from that you can find one to suit your specific needs and abilities  quite easily.

If you don’t have buddies who are into that, join Meetup and join a hiking group already organised, planned and ready to rock.

Hiking Cape Town

Cost: Nada, zilch, niks.

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Park Runs

Failed at running due to back issues and trying to strengthen up again with regular walking, biokinetics, blah blah blah. That doesn’t stop me from joining the local races. My favourite is the Park Runs, which are timed 5km runs in various spots all over SA. It’s at 8am every Saturday and if you’re on Discovery,  you earn Vitality points for them too! Walkers are welcome and so are dogs. It’s super-chilled. I mean, that is not even my dog. And I just met that other person at the run.

Big Bay Park Run

Cost: Nothing

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Grab your bike and go somewhere

Another favourite thing to do is just grab my bicycle and ride somewhere pretty. This is Lower Tokai Park and the route is about 6km and flat. Easy to peddle around a few times and easy to jog around. Kids and pets and horses and bicycles all welcome.

Bicycle

Cost: Zero again. See, I wasn’t lying!

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Hit the waves!

Cape Town water is fecking cold. And I’m a little scared of waves. But there’s only so much I can keep myself occupied with on the beach so I decided to try body boarding! Blouberg’s Big Bay and Muizenberg are great places to rent some gear and get into the waves. It’s so much fun, I thought my heart was going to explode. I don’t care that I was partying it up with the 7 year olds in the sea, I was happy as a pig in mud.

(I’ve since upgraded to “real” surfing and the fun factor increased substantially)

Body Boarding Cape Town

Cost: R100 for wetsuit and body board rental for 1,5 hours at Surf Emporium in Muizenberg. Surf board hire: R70.

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Picnic in Kirstenbosch Botanic Gardens

Kirstenbosch Botanic Gardens is breathtakingly beautiful and their new Boomslang Walkway is pretty rad too. Take a walk and  picnic basket and have a nap on the grass.

Picnic Kirstenbosch

Boomslang Walkway

Cost: R50 entrance for adults

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Get your culture on at the National Gallery

You really should get all that culture on if you’re going to be in Cape Town. A good start is the South African National Gallery in Company Gardens. Take a journey through the years with art.

National Gallery

Cost: R30 for adults

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Chill with the squirrels in Company Gardens

They’re so cute. Daring, but cute. I try and chase their tails because they feel like fluffy bottle washers. I probably shouldn’t but I do.

The grass areas are great for picnics too.

Squirrel Company Gardens

Cost: Nada

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Braai/Picnic/Swim/Tan at Oudekraal

GREAT spot, guys, GREAT spot. Super chilled and beautiful. You can braai here too, which is pretty cool. And also tan without getting covered with sand, if that’s what you’re into. The rock pools are freezing, but worth a daring dip.

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Cost: R30 for adults. Free for Wild Card holders

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Visit the local seals in Hout Bay and devour the fish and chips

Hout Bay has their own little seal community, who hang around the harbour waiting for fish offcuts from the fishing boats. They’re pretty cool. Often angry at being disturbed, but mostly just pretty cool.

Seals Hout Bay

Fish on the Rocks is a great spot for some local fishy goodness and the outside area has a beautiful view of the bay. You’ll probably have some seals swimming around in front of you there too.

Fish on the Rocks Hout Bay

A glorious day out also calls for a boat trip out to “Seal Island”. It’s heavily touristic but is actually quite fun being out on the open water, seeing the bay from a different perspective. As a bonus, you’ll feel like you’re in another country because you’ll be the only South African on the boat 😉

Seal Island Cruise

Cost: Your fish and chips will cost you under R100, I assure you. A Seal Island cruise on the “Calypso” is R65 per adult.

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Walk/jog on the Sea Point promenade at sunset

Because if you don’t, you are wasting your life. Just saying.

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Cost: Nothing

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Wine tasting in Constantia

Okay, so this one barely makes the cut merely because you won’t go to a place for just one wine tasting. You’ll likely order something to eat as well (I highly recommend the cheese board at Constantia Glen) or move on to another farm for another tasting. If you’re clever, you can make it work nicely for you, though.

Most people head out to Paarl, Stellenbosch or Franschhoek for wine days, but the Constantia Wine Route holds some gems as well and is nice and close for those in the Southern Suburbs. Beau Constantia‘s tasting room view is phenomenal.

Constantia Glen
Constantia Glen
Beau Constantia
Beau Constantia

 Cost: R30-R50 for tastings. Beau Constantia charges R30 for three wines, Constantia Glen charges R50 for 6 wines.

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And there it is, folks! I will explore some more and write another one of these in the near future I’m sure! If you have any ideas of your own, please send them my way too by commenting on this post.

Happy Exploring!

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Project Snap Happy: Intensity

Posted by popcorncandi on July 27, 2014 Leave a Comment

One thing that Cape Town has taught me is that we should look around every day and appreciate what we have. We should experience, every day, a moment when we just stop for a second and say ‘wow’. I want to share these moments with you from time to time, with Project Snap Happy. (*Warning – there may be plenty of sunsets and view shots for this. Possibly all there will be…)

The first one: ‘Intensity’

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Posted in: To Do and Love in Cape Town | Tagged: Cape Town, Cape Town Views, Chapmans Peak, Hout Bay, sunset

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