Tired of eating in restaurants all the time? Then assemble a picnic from your local deli/supermarket and take yourselves off to Kirstenbosch Botanic Gardens for a lunch al fresco. Picnicking at Kirstenbosch is serious business for the locals who arrive at 11am to grab their favourite spot in the shade amongst the fynbos.

On Sundays there are evening concerts (5.30pm), so the queues to get in are actually busier late afternoon than earlier.

If you cant be bothered to organise a picnic, you can always have lunch at the Tea Room (near the Plant Centre and Gate 2). We sat outside beneath the parasols and feasted on the excellent Thai calamari salad with a couple of ice-cold Windhoek lagers.

Kirstenbosch National Botanic Gardens, Rhodes Drive, Newland, Cape Town

+27 21 799 8899

www.sanbi.org/frames/kirstfram.htm

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