50 Places To Visit When Retiring To A Cape Town Village For Over 55′S

If you are lucky enough to be settling in one of the many retirement villages in Cape Town, you will be in a unique position to really do traveling.

You will have enough time on your hands not to rush explorations into Cape Town’s wealth of attractions. Whether it be Table Mountain, Robben Island or excursions into the beauty of places like Paarl,Gordons Bay and Franschoek, you will be able to indulge in the joys of visiting places that feed the soul.

Let’s take a look at some of the travel adventures you can plan from the comfort of your favorite corner in one of the retirement villages in Cape Town:

  1. View the beauty of Cape Town from the top of Table Mountain
  2. Visit Nelson Mandela’s prison cell on Robben Island
  3. Watch rugby at Newlands and school rugby too
  4. Visit all the wine farms, compare their excellence and rate them
  5. Swim in both the Atlantic and Indian Ocean at least once a month
  6. Visit art galleries and museums recurrently
  7. Go and view both general and art movies
  8. Visit The Castle
  9. Visit Cape Point
  10. Do whale watching during their annual visit to South African shores
  11. View the awesome sharks from the safety of an underwater cage
  12. Have breakfast, lunch and dinner at Franschoek’s restaurants
  13. Work your way through Long Street’s variety of shops
  14. Play golf on all the major golf courses around Cape Town
  15. Visit Rhodes Memorial and take a book along for a quiet afternoon
  16. Have tea in the Gardens and visit the National Museum
  17. Attend public lectures at the University of Cape Town
  18. Go and watch the ocean and people at sunset on Camps Bay beach
  19. Hire a tour guide and do game watching, fauna and flora too
  20. Spend time in the Botanical Gardens
  21. Do flower watching on the West Coast at the end of winter
  22. Go to Touws River and view the vines in autumn
  23. Do the warm water baths of Caledon
  24. Go and find the shy Disa in Bettys Bay Reserve
  25. Do horse riding on the beach at Kommetjie
  26. Go frequently to watch shows at Cape Town Theatre
  27. Park at coffee shops in shopping centres watching people going by
  28. Go on a wine tasting course in Paarl and Stellenbosch
  29. Visit Langebaan on the West Coach for an authentic fish braai
  30. Take a boat trip from Cape Town Waterfront
  31. Go on all the hiking trails all around Cape Town
  32. Do trout fishing or try catching the great Kabeljou
  33. Visit all the quaint villages around the greater Cape Town area
  34. Visit the San farm along the road to the West Coach
  35. Take up an art or photography course
  36. Take a boat at Hout Bay to view the seal colonies
  37. Go for a helicopter drive around Table Mountain
  38. Visit the aquarium in the Cape Town Waterfront
  39. Go on a township tour
  40. Do some river rafting
  41. Do some sky diving
  42. Watch the penguins at Boulders Beach
  43. Book yourself in at a health spa
  44. Get a personal trainer and become fit
  45. Complete the Two Oceans race
  46. Plan a few trips into the Sederberg Mountains, Klein and Groot Karoo
  47. Attend the colourful New Year’s celebrations in Cape Town
  48. Take a good book to the beaches at Clifton or Blouberg and get a tan
  49. Do some deep sea fishing
  50. Visit children at the Red Cross Children’s Hospital

From a base like Summervale Retirement Village, you can explore the full variety that little villages and seaside resorts offer to those who come to enlarge the scope of the human heart. Heart and soul, that is what the retired explorer will find when every new day offers more places that whisper their invitation to come visiting…

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