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What is Special About a Cape Town Golf Holiday
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Cape Town is one of the world’s most beautiful cities, and is South Africa’s most popular tourist destination. With many world class golf courses to choose from, golfers worldwide have discovered that Cape Town is a bit of a golfers paradise. If you also include the many tourist attractions that Cape Town has to offer, then you get a golf holiday destination that is tough to match anywhere else. The favorable South African Rand exchange rate is also an attraction for tourists coming from Europe or North America. The price of accommodation, restaurants and golf green fees is a fraction of the equivalent cost in the United States or Europe when converted to dollars or euros.
There are many Cape Town golf courses to choose from, both in and around Cape Town. A total of 15 Cape Town golf courses are rated within the Golf Digest top 100 courses for South Africa. This includes the internationally renowned Arabella Golf Club and Resort which is one hour’s drive from Cape Town. This championship course is arguably the best course in the Western Cape, and with good reason. Set in spectacular surroundings on the Bot River lagoon this stunning golf course has hosted numerous South African opens and offers tee boxes to suit all levels of golfer. There are many top golf courses in the Cape Winelands area, which is situated near to Cape Town – some of these courses include the Jack Nicklaus designed Pearl Valley Golf Course, De Zalze Golf Club, Erinvale Golf Club, Paarl Golf Club and Stellenbosch Golf Club.
There are a good selection of top golf courses within Cape Town and its surrounding suburbs, with enough variety to keep any golfer happy. Atlantic Beach Golf Club, Clovelly Country Club, Royal Cape Golf Club, Steenberg Golf Club, and King David Golf Club are just a few of the Cape Town golf courses that are highly recommended. To find out more About Cape Town golf courses and the other Western Cape courses check out the GolfLinx golf directory for the Western Cape.
Besides the Cape Town golf courses there are many other top tourist attractions in Cape Town. There is Table Mountain which towers over the city of Cape Town. At over 3000 feet high, it can be seen from anywhere in Cape Town. You can take a revolving cable car, or hike up to the summit of the mountain using numerous hiking trails. The viewing station at the top has a restaurant and a bar with spectacular views of the city and the Atlantic.
The wine farms in the Cape Winelands produce some of the finest wines in the world. The majority of the wine farms in the area offer tours of the vineyards and cellars, as well was wine tasting. There are numerous wine routes one can take through the region, and there are many guided bus tours which leave from Cape Town. Another popular attraction in Cape Town is its beaches. The numerous beaches in Cape Town have spectacular mountain backdrops as the scenery as well as soft, white sand.
The V&A Waterfront is Cape Town’s most visited attraction, and offers good shopping facilities, wining and dining establishments, various live shows and the Two Oceans Aquarium. Many boat trips can be booked from the V&A Waterfront, including a boat trip tour to the Robben Island where one can tour the maximum security prison where Nelson Mandela was incarcerated. Besides the Cape Town golf courses, theses are just some of the other attractions that Cape Town has to offer.
To find available accommodation in Cape Town, take a look at the GolfLinx Western Cape accommodation directory.
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