Long Street is more a way of life than a street. A paradise for bookworms, rummagers, connoisseurs and discoverers. Wonderfully renovated houses gleaming in yellow, pink and light blue stand side by side with more dilapidated façades.
It is a magnet for the curious, the fashionable and the tourists, who browse through antique shops, junk stores [...]
The magical Bo Kaap Quarter is one of the few historic quarters in the South African metropolis. The calls of the muezzin, women with headscarves, minarets and mosques - not exactly a typical image of Cape Town.
This is where the Islamic community, known as the Cape Malays as they are descendants of the slaves once [...]
For the 1992 Olympic Games, the entire waterfront area and the promenade all the way up to the fishing district, Barceloneta, were completely redesigned. The boats known as “Golondrines” set off on their tours around the harbor from the Moll de les Drassanes near the Monument a Colom, from the top of which you can [...]
Even if you don’t want to buy anything, you should still take the escalator to the fourth-floor gallery of the fine Magna Plaza shopping arcade and stroll through the many shops.
Stamps are no longer sold behind the neo-Gothic façade of the former Central Post Office, it is now home to expensive men’s fashions, chic accessories, [...]
