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The Ultimate 48 Hours in Cape Town

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Planning a trip to Cape Town but pressed for time? Explore the city in 48 hours and enjoy its renowned beaches, culinary and wine experiences, and outdoor activities.

Here’s your guide to experiencing the city like a local:

DAY 1

Lion's Head is a popular hike in Cape Town- known for its stunning views of the city.

5 am: Hike Up Lion’s Head

Set your alarm early and head out for a morning climb up Lion’s Head; it’s one of those adventures that’s absolutely worth the effort. The trail winds upwards with spectacular views at nearly every turn, so you’ll want to take your time and savour it all. Aim to reach the top by sunrise and bring breakfast, snacks, and water. At the summit, you’ll see the Atlantic, the City Bowl, and Table Mountain spread out below.

9 am: Breakfast at Truth Coffee

Need a caffeine fix after your hike? Truth Coffee is recognised as one of the most beautiful coffee shops in the world. Imagine a steampunk-inspired interior with high ceilings, intricate copper detailing, and vintage machinery. As you sip your artisanal, in-house-roasted coffee, take in the artistic atmosphere. Truth boasts an extensive menu, offering everything from sweet treats and breakfast dishes to salads and sophisticated cocktails. We recommend picking up a few of their signature coffee blends to take home.

Location: 36 Buitenkant St, Cape Town City Centre

Website: www.truth.capetown/

12pm: Bo-Kaap

Explore Bo-Kaap's rich history and heritage.

After breakfast, explore the vibrant streets of Bo-Kaap. Located at the foot of Signal Hill on the edge of the city centre, this historic neighbourhood, once known as the Malay Quarter, dates to the 1760s, when rows of “huurhuisjes” (rental houses) were built and leased to enslaved people. Many of these residents, later recognised as Cape Malays, were brought from Malaysia, Indonesia, and other parts of Africa, and their cultural influence continues to shape the neighbourhood today.

Now one of Cape Town’s most culturally vibrant districts, Bo-Kaap is celebrated for its colourful houses, heritage, and cuisine. Visit Bo-Kaap Deli to sample a traditional koesister, explore the Bo-Kaap Museum to discover the stories of the pioneers who shaped the area, or join a cooking class with residents to learn how to prepare authentic Cape Malay dishes.

1.30 pm: Lunch at Bree Street

One of the trendiest streets in the city, Bree Street, is lined with an eclectic mix of restaurants — ranging from artisanal pizzas and gourmet burgers to international cuisines and modern fine dining. Beyond the eateries, you’ll also discover a variety of boutique shops and local designers, perfect for browsing fashion and exploring the city’s creative side.

5 pm: Atlantic Seaboard

Cape Town’s beaches and sunsets never fail to impress. Visit Camps Bay, where palm trees line the promenade and the Twelve Apostles mountain range creates a stunning backdrop. Clifton’s beaches, just a short drive away, boast soft white sands and turquoise waters. They are truly some of the best city beaches you’ll find.

Along this stretch, you’ll also come across a few tidal pools perfect for a quick dip. As the afternoon draws to a close, visit one of the stylish cocktail bars or restaurants along the Camps Bay strip, such as Café Caprice, Chinchilla by Kove Collection, and The Lawns at the Roundhouse. Trust us, the sunset here is definitely worth staying for!

DAY 2

One of the world's most scenic drives - Chapman's Peak.

8 am: Chapman’s Peak

Start your day early with a drive along Chapman’s Peak Drive, one of the world’s most celebrated scenic routes, offering stunning coastal views at every bend. Throughout the journey, there are plenty of spots to stop for photographs or to enjoy a pre-packed picnic breakfast while admiring the dramatic cliffs and sparkling Atlantic below.

10 am: Boulders Beach

You cannot miss a trip to Boulders Beach, the only place in the world where you can get close to African penguins in their natural habitat. Recently named the World’s Best One-of-a-Kind Beach and ranked among the Top 10 Best Beaches in the World at the Tripadvisor Travelers’ Choice Awards 2026, it’s easy to see why. Take a dip, take a few photos, and watch the penguins waddle and swim… always from a respectful distance to protect these charming little residents.

11.30 am: Cape Point

Continue south into the wild beauty of Cape Point and the Cape of Good Hope. At Cape Point, one of Cape Town’s Big 6 attractions, you can hike along scenic trails, ride the Flying Dutchman Funicular to the lookout point, climb up to the historic lighthouse, and follow the shipwreck trail to see some of the 26 recorded shipwrecks scattered around the coastline. For lunch, stop at Two Oceans Restaurant to enjoy seafood and the stunning views.

Location: Cape Peninsula

Website: capepoint.co.za/

3 pm: Wine Tasting at Groot Constantia

No trip to Cape Town is complete without visiting South Africa’s oldest wine-producing farm, Groot Constantia. There are various tasting options tailored to your preferences, including wine and chocolate pairings.

Location: Groot Constantia Rd, Constantia

Website: grootconstantia.co.za/

6 pm: SPYCED Restaurant

Wrap up your trip with a feast at SPYCED Restaurant, where Cape Malay flavours meet live Cape Town jazz. Expect an evening of local cuisine, drumming, and music, and end the night with some dancing.

Location: Ground floor, Silo 4, Silo District, S Arm Rd, Victoria & Alfred Waterfront

Website: spyced.co.za/

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Travel & Tourism

12 Days of Summer Giveaways: Day 9 – Cape Point

Maravi Post Reporter
It’s our 12 Days of Summer Giveaways!
We’re embracing the festive spirit this summer, and from 4 to 19 December 2025, you can win some of the best experiences in Cape Town.

Day 9:  Win a Cape Point Experience For Four, including park entry, return Funicular tickets, and R2000 Two Oceans Restaurant voucher

Only 60km from Cape Town, Cape Point is where wild beauty meets adventure.
Whether you’re chasing ocean views from towering cliffs, wandering through fynbos-covered trails, or relaxing on quiet beaches, it’s the perfect place to get lost in nature.


Explore Cape Point

At Cape Point, one of the Cape Town Big 6, you can wander along scenic hiking trails, ride the Flying Dutchman Funicular to the lookout point, climb up to the historic lighthouse, relax on pristine beaches, and even follow the shipwreck trail to see some of the 26 recorded shipwrecks scattered around the coastline. It’s one destination with a million different views, and your visit will let you discover one of them.

The competition ends on 16 December 2025, at 23:59 pm SAST. The winner will be announced the next day, at 9am.

To enter, complete and submit the online entry form below.
*Use this link if the form below does not populate: Day 9 – Cape Point – 16th Dec 2025    – Fill out form

Terms and Conditions:

  • The prize is non-transferable, non-refundable, and cannot be exchanged for cash.
  • Bookings are required for entry to the Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve and must be made at least 48 hours in advance.
  • The winner is responsible for all additional costs not expressly included in the prize.

In addition to the above, please view our T’s and C’s here.

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Travel & Tourism

12 Days of Summer Giveaways: Day 9 – Cape Point

Maravi Post Reporter
It’s our 12 Days of Summer Giveaways!
We’re embracing the festive spirit this summer, and from 4 to 19 December 2025, you can win some of the best experiences in Cape Town.

Day 9:  Win a Cape Point Experience For Four, including park entry, return Funicular tickets, and R2000 Two Oceans Restaurant voucher

Only 60km from Cape Town, Cape Point is where wild beauty meets adventure.
Whether you’re chasing ocean views from towering cliffs, wandering through fynbos-covered trails, or relaxing on quiet beaches, it’s the perfect place to get lost in nature.


Explore Cape Point

At Cape Point, one of the Cape Town Big 6, you can wander along scenic hiking trails, ride the Flying Dutchman Funicular to the lookout point, climb up to the historic lighthouse, relax on pristine beaches, and even follow the shipwreck trail to see some of the 26 recorded shipwrecks scattered around the coastline. It’s one destination with a million different views, and your visit will let you discover one of them.

The competition ends on 16 December 2025, at 23:59 pm SAST. The winner will be announced the next day, at 9am.

To enter, complete and submit the online entry form below.
*Use this link if the form below does not populate: Day 9 – Cape Point – 16th Dec 2025    – Fill out form

Terms and Conditions:

  • The prize is non-transferable, non-refundable, and cannot be exchanged for cash.
  • Bookings are required for entry to the Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve and must be made at least 48 hours in advance.
  • The winner is responsible for all additional costs not expressly included in the prize.

In addition to the above, please view our T’s and C’s here.

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Travel & Tourism

Top 10 Activities For Summer School Holidays

Maravi Post Reporter

It’s the summer school holidays, and the Mother City is the perfect playground. Cape Town has so much to offer for all ages so get ready for exciting adventures.

Here are some experiences we highly recommend.

Playrock Adventure Park

For the young and the young at heart, Playrock Adventure Park is the ultimate fun zone! With an indoor playpark, trampoline zones, a mini-golf course, and an outdoor mini-soccer pitch, this adventure-packed park promises hours of excitement for everyone. When you’re not bouncing through circuits, unwind with drinks and something to eat at the Restaurant & Bar. Open from Tuesday to Sunday, the venue is also available for private events.

Location: Freedom Village, R301 Wemmershoek Rd, Southern Paarl, Paarl
Price: From R90
Website: www.playrock.co.za

Polkadraai Strawberry Farm

If you want to get the kids engaged in a fun activity, then a trip to Polkadraai Strawberry Farm should be on your bucket list. This family-friendly attraction is perfect for a day out. Here, you can wander the fields to pick strawberries, take tractor rides or check out the bike park, play mini golf, or grab a bite to eat at the food court.

Location: Polkadraai Road, La Provence Rd, Kuils River
Price: From R60
Website: www.polkadraaifarm.co.za

Strawberry farm cape town

Wiesenhof Adventure Park

Looking for an adventure park where you can create a splash? Wiesenhof Adventure Park has water slides with tubes, swimming pools for all ages, a trampoline park, a pump track, a climbing wall, and an Air Gym (Arial Obstacle Course). There are also tractor rides, a braai and picnic areas, and a kids’ play area. Fun for the entire family!

Location: R44 Adam Tas St, Klapmuts, north of Stellenbosch
Price: From R100
Website: wapark.co.za

School Holidays

Noordhoek Farm Village

Recognised as one of Cape Town’s favourite local hangouts, Noordhoek Farm Village is an all-in-one destination with top-class food eateries like The Foodbarn Café & Tapas (one of the few fine-dining establishments in town that is kid-friendly), retail offerings and play areas for the little ones.

Location: Corner of Village Lane &, Noordhoek Main Rd, Noordhoek
Price: Free entry
Website: www.thefarmvillage.co.za

Freedom Adventure Park

Freedom Adventure Park in Tokai and Canal Walk is an indoor play park with thrilling obstacles and experiences for all ages, including a trampoline park, a dodgeball arena, a large foam pit, a 50-metre-long adrenaline-pumping hi-line rope course, multiple climbing walls, and custom build play pods.

Location: Unit 3A, 333 Main Road, Tokai and Canal Walk at 490 Century Blvd, Century City
Price: From R150pp. Free entry for adults.
Website: freedomadventurepark.co.za

Go on a Hike

Pack some snacks and take the kids on a scenic hike in Cape Town. Kid-friendly hikes include Pipe Track, located at the start of Tafelberg Road, Alphen Trail in Constantia, Tokai Forest, Newlands Forest, and Deer Park. Remember to always hike in a group and stick to daylight hours for safety.

Please note: Research the hiking routes as some trails can get packed over the weekend and may not be ideal for little ones.
Price: Free

The Bike Park

The Bike Park at Constantia Uitsig makes for an exhilarating day out. Designed and built by former South African mountain bike champion Chris Nixon, the bike park is suitable for all ages and skill levels. Enjoy lap after lap of fun, with some of the best views. On the property are restaurants and retail spaces worth exploring between sessions

Location: ERF12995 Spaanschemat River Rd, Fir Grove, Cape Town
Price: Access to The Bike Park and all tracks’ cost R70 per hour or R95 for a day permit
Website: bikeparkatuitsig.co.za/

MyCiti Bay Trip to Hout Bay

For a fuss-free, no-driving day, hop on the MyCiti bus from the city to Hout Bay. The route is scenic, showcasing some of the city’s most beautiful locations including Camps Bay and Clifton. At Hout Bay, you can take a scenic boat trip to Seal Island, grab fish and chips at Fish on the Rocks, explore the Bay Harbour market, and take a stroll along Mariner’s Wharf.

Price: From R30
Website: www.myciti.org.za

Cape Point

Cape Point makes the perfect road trip, 90 minutes from Cape Town. Situated at the southwestern tip of Africa, the Cape Point Nature Reserve is one of the most pristine and unspoiled places on Earth. Be on the lookout for rare Cape Mountain zebra and bontebok, as well as the orange-breasted sunbird and pelagic birds that drift in the air currents just offshore. Take the Flying Dutchman Funicular to the top for breathtaking views, walk up to the lighthouse, enjoy a meal at the Two Oceans Restaurant, and then walk it off along the Olifantsbos shipwreck trail.

Location: Cape Peninsula, Cape Town
Price: South African adults: R110 and children: R55. Standard entry: Adults: R515, children: R250
Website: www.capepoint.co.za

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Lifestyle

Lampedusa: Honouring the migrants who died at sea

Maravi Post Reporter

In a quiet corner of Lampedusa cemetery retired professor, Fabio Giovanetti waters plants and tidies rubbish from the graves of migrants of who have died crossing the Mediterranean Sea. “We have never seen or met these people, none of them have given us their name or their story. We don’t know anything, but they are still human beings who had the misfortune to encounter a shipwreck,” he says.

Lampedusa is the gateway to Europe for the thousands of migrants who cross the Mediterranean every year. This small island in the middle of the sea has for decades welcomed anyone who arrives, alive or dead, after the long journey to the European coasts. In 2024 the Italian Red Cross welcomed over 45,000 people. More than 9,000 people have already arrived in Lampedusa in 2025. Some of those who don’t survive the sea journey and whose story ends here in Lampedusa, are buried in the local cemetery. Often little is known about them, sometimes their name is known, sometimes not even that. Giovanetti, is a member of the Forum Lampedusa Solidale, a group of citizens who help those in need on the island, local and migrant alike.

Every migrant grave in this small cemetery tells a story. The Forum volunteers decided to decorate them with writings and drawings that restore dignity to people, but at the same time the tombstones tell the drama of those who die without an identity. On the tombs, the sea is often drawn wrapped in barbed wire, like in a prison. Over the years the Forum has managed to reconstruct fragments of stories, a form of respect towards these victims of the sea. One grave is for a man the group have named ‘Yassin’ from Eritera. “We don’t actually know what his name was. Yassin arrived dead in Lampedusa, but we wrote Yassin because a shipwrecked survivor said that someone near him was shouting this name” explains Giovanetti. Giovanetti tells the story of Ester Ada who died in 2009. “A Turkish merchant ship, the Pinar, rescued 153 migrants, including a dead woman. A dispute opens between Italy and Malta and despite being in Maltese waters, Malta refuses to welcome the merchant ship. The standoff lasts four days and in the end Italy welcomes the migrants together with the body of Ester Ada, this young woman who died during the crossing.”

Another young woman known as Welela is one of the very migrants buried in Lampedusa whose name and story we know says Giovanetti : “She was an Eritrean girl who was trying to reunite with her brother and during the journey she suffered a very serious accident that left her with burns all over her body.” “Once she arrived on the island (dead) she was taken to the mortuary and a lady from Lampedusa temporarily donated her tomb, so we were able to bury her here. Trying to reconstruct the history and identity of this person, our research intersected with that of her brother who lives in a city in Northern Europe and it was he who told us the whole story of this unfortunate girl,” he adds.

A few kilometres from the cemetery, on the Favaloro pier, patrol boats continue to disembark people rescued at sea. On April 21, 85 people were rescued by the coast guard in the stormy sea, along with the body of a young man, according to the Italian Red Cross. The latest confirmed victim of over 30,000 deaths in the Mediterranean in the last ten years, according to the International Organization for Migration.

Imad Dalil runs the migrants hotspot in Lampedusa for the Italian Red Cross. He says: “We are here to welcome people, alive as you said, inside the hotspot and guarantee them, with the multidisciplinary team, all the services both material and health and psychiatric support. Also dead people arrive at the dock and we are here for them too.”

Valeria Passeri, an aid worker for Mediterranean Hope, a refugee and migrant programme of the Federation of Protestant Churches in Italy says Lampedusa is a place where migrants pass through, but those who die enroute remain and the cemetery is a place where they can be remembered and belong. “The cemetery is a very important place because today it is the place where the people of Lampedusa and the people on the move meet. The only place where they are together. It is a place where it is possible to remember and taking care of that space means dedicating attention, honouring and welcoming people even if they did not make it.”

Source: Africanews

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Regional, Travel & Tourism

DR Congo: 145 passengers missing in boat disaster

Maravi Post Reporter
At least 145 passengers are reported missing after a boat with goods and animals sank in a river in the northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Local authorities said that about 55 people survived the disaster which happened on Tuesday night.

The boat which was heading for neighbouring Republic of Congo capsized on the Lulonga River near the town of Basankusu.

Jean-Pierre Wangela, president of civil society groups in the region, blamed the sinking on an overload.

“There are no other means of transportation currently in our province and here in Basankusu territory,” he said.

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Residents are said to have very few other options to making such a journey.

Deadly shipwrecks are all common in remote areas of the DR Congo, where travel by road is sometimes impossible.

In October, more than 40 people died on the Congo River in Equateur Province in similar circumstances.

Over 25,000 children gone missing in Africa

Source: Africa Feeds