One of the best museums in Cape Town. Relatively intimate, it recreates cobblestone ghettos, exhibits photographs from the time and presents narratives from survivors. It is a moving testament to the Holocaust and explicitly links the bigotry prevalent in Nazi Germany that made such an atrocity possible, to that in South Africa itself.
Just west of the National Gallery and Jewish Museum in Hatfield Street close to the Botanical Gardens
This is a much more relaxed climb than Table Mountain and is almost as beautiful. It cradles Cape Town's East side and offers striking views of Cape Town, the Twelve Apostles, as well as Table mountain. It is a spiralling walk to the summit; the final stage is steep but worth the climb.
Head North from Kloof Nek for about 500m along Signal Hill Road where you will find a car park. There is a jeep track which becomes a path leading West up to the head
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