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