The Cape Town metropolitan area covers a large area, from Durbanville and Somerset West in the east to Cape Point in the south and Atlantis in the north. Tens of thousands of tourists visit Cape Town every year and are perfectly safe throughout their stay. That said, if you're careful, you'll be fine. You'll get little help from the locals, as they fear for their own safety, too. The police keep a fairly high profile during daylight hours, but less so at night. Better still, take one in the day time too, until you are more familiar of where to and where not to go, alone and loaded down with baggage.
ALWAYS take a taxi from the central bus station after dark. Do not flash cash, jewellery, and devices around in the streets. If you are street smart, and aware of your surroundings, you should be fine. Crime is just not as apparent to the newbie in town, because you simply do not know the bad areas. Safety Īs in every city across the world, Cape Town is less safe than you will be led to believe. It is also one of the most iconic cities in the world. Christiaan Barnard at the Groote Schuur hospital in Cape Town.Ĭape Town is also known as Kaapstad (in Afrikaans) or the Mother City/Moederstad in South Africa. The first human heart transplant was performed on the 3 rd December 1967 by Dr. Many Consider this peninsula to be the meeting point of the cold Atlantic and (relatively) warm Indian oceans this can be felt in the difference in water temperature between False Bay and Table Bay. Also visible are Stellenbosch, Paarl, and Fransch Hoek to the north east, and Kleinmond and Hermanus to the south east. Cape Town seen from space: Most of the urban area visible in this NASA Astronaut photo is part of the greater Cape Town metropolitan area.
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