Cape West Coast travel

The West Coast offers some of the greatest of small town experiences in South Africa. This is a region that needs to be savored, slowly, and therefore road trips along the West Coast are a firm favourite with locals and international visitors. Not only does the area offer some of the most beautiful scenery in the world - mountains, oceans and views that go on forever, this coast is also a haven for the finest South African hospitality.

The West Coast National Park (close to Langebaan) is where 50 000 migratory birds can be seen in the summer, and at Bird Island at Lamberts Bay, an unobtrusive viewing platform affords close-ups of a jam-packed breeding site.

The National Park also contains 40% of the earth's remaining strandveld fynbos, while the West Coast at large really blooms in the spring months of August - October, even the roadsides bursting forth with lilies, vygies and daisies.

Endemic Clanwilliam cedar and snowball protea can be sighted in the Cederberg Wilderness Area, which also claims unusual rock formations and well-known hiking trails.

The Cape West Coast has two official wine routes, the Swartland Wine Route and the Olifants River Wine Region. West Coast seas also produce a bounty of quality seafood and line fish to accompany the fruit of the vine and some of the country's finest restaurants are found along this coastline.

West Coast Accommodation

The Cape West Coast extends from Blaauwberg near Cape Town, to the provincial border in Namaqualand in the north. The West Coast borders on the Winelands District in the south, and the Northern Cape in the north and east. On the west borders on the Cold Atlantic Ocean with spectacular beaches.
West Coast Accommodation

Tours & day trips

Tours and day trips are a good way of maximizing your sightseeing time when you are in Cape Town. We offer a large and comprehensive portfolio that you can book through us. Table Mountain, Kirstenbosch Gardens, Cape Point, Franschhoek, Stellenbosch, Robben Island.
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Paternoster

One of the last traditional fishing villages on the Cape West Coast. Paternoster offers many activities: sea kayaking, whale, dolphin, seal and penguin watching, walks along the sandy beach or among the boulders, artistic expression through pottery and painting. A wonderful region and village on the West Coast of South Africa, a true wonder for all.

Featured accommodation & holiday houses on the Cape west Coast

Saldanha Bay

Saldanha Bay is known for it's natural beauty as well as its peaceful nature. Whales can be seen during their migration. The Benquela Current provides visitors with the likes of mussels, crayfish and line fish. The region is a bird watchers paradise. Saldanha has the deepest & largest natural harbour in the southern hemisphere.

Protea Hotel Saldanha Bay

Protea Hotel Saldanha Bay offers excellent accommodation with a choice of standard or superior rooms and suites; a first class restaurant, attractive lounge and cocktail bar and an indoor barbecue area, gym, body and skin care clinic, as well as a games room with pool, table tennis, darts and kids play area.
Protea Hotel Saldanha Bay

Bushmans Kloof

Bushmans Kloof Wilderness Reserve is approximately 270km north of Cape Town, on the edge of the Cederberg Wilderness Area, this is where the Reserve lies. This unique Cape reserve is an ecological oasis situated between the rugged foothills of the Cederberg Mountains and the plains of the Great Karoo.
Bushman's Kloof

Cape West Coast travel planner

The key to a successful Cape West Coast Holiday is having an agent that has great local knowledge, experience and excellent products.

At Uyaphi.com we offer a wide and comprehensive portfolio of scheduled, self drive and tailor-made tours & safaris as well as accommodation/ lodging and vehicle hire for travel in Cape Town.

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