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[J]

I am traveling to Cape Town next month, and would like recommendations on hotels per areas. I'd like an area which is lively at night - searching Hostels.com I found The Backpackers (@147 on Main 147 Main Road, Green Point) which is in the waterfront area, and am wondering if this is a good area for a young woman traveling by myself.

This question goes to anyone currently residing in Cape Town as well - you might be able to recommend an area there, since you know your city.

Any recommendations in the next few days are very welcome, indeed. Many thanks!

[Bart]

Hi There,

try this one: http://www.hotel-benelux-reservation.com/en/hotels/za/south_africa/cape_town
Or have a look at the cityguide that is published. You can pick one up when you arrive at the airport in cape town, south africa.


Good luck

Bart

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Hi There, I found this info on Cape town on this site: http://cityguide.travel-guides.com/city/city_guide.ehtml?o=29&NAV_guide_class=CityGuide&NAV_City=29 : about Cape town

With its stunning location, tucked into the arms of a broad bay, surrounded by wild, white-sand beaches and set against the canvas of Table Mountain, Cape Town is one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Affectionately nicknamed the Mother City, the city is the epicentre of South Africa’s Western Cape region and the seat of South Africa’s parliament.

Originally home to the nomadic Khoi people for at least 30,000 years, the Cape Peninsula was first settled, on 6 April 1652, by Dutch sailors led by Jan van Riebeek of the Dutch East India Company. Portuguese explorer Bartholemew Diaz had already discovered the Cape in 1488 and christened it Cabo Tormentoso or ‘Cape of Storms’, but Portugal’s King John II later renamed it ‘Cape of Good Hope’. In 1795, it became a British colony, when the British Empire extended its borders. The city has been the first port of call for many a European settler, entrepreneur and religious refugee, as well as for Indian, Madagascan and South-East Asian slaves. All these people interspersed with the local Khoi and Xhosa population and the city became a melting pot of cultures, religions, styles and flavours. Nowadays, traders from other African countries (such as Malawi, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia and Nigeria) also favour Cape Town, particularly because there are so many tourists there. The city has a reputation for being the least xenophobic and most welcoming city in South Africa, with a strong diversity and open-minded benevolence. Capetonians are proud of their easygoing and laid-back nature, jokingly known as the ‘Cape coma’, so different from their more frenetic counterparts in the north.