District Six: The Wrong Kind of HarmonyDistrict Six, the music it made, and the Bourbon Street that Cape Town never got to haveRead the story →Related tour:City Walking Tour
Table Mountain: Flat Out AncientMud, molten rock, sand and ice: how Cape Town ended up with a half-a-billion-year-old coffee tableRead the story →Related tours:Skeleton GorgeKasteelspoort & Tranquility CracksPlatteklip GorgeBespoke Hike
If This Tree Could TalkHow Khoikhoi herders and their cattle kept the Cape from becoming PortugueseRead the story →Related tours:City Walking TourCape Peninsula
Photo: Anonymous, 1793Let Them Eat CapeHow a revolution in Paris handed the Cape to the British (twice), and why nobody in Cape Town was consultedRead the story →Related tours:Cape PeninsulaCity Walking Tour
Good Hope, Bad BehaviourThree and a half centuries of South African history, conveniently stored in one castleRead the story →Related tours:City Walking TourCape Peninsula
The Loneliest Plant in the WorldWood’s Cycad: a 280-million-year-old lineage, one surviving male, and no way homeRead the story →Related tours:KirstenboschSkeleton Gorge
Fynbos: A Slow-Burn RomanceHow the world’s most extraordinary shrubland crept up on me, and why it actually wants to be set on fireRead the story →Related tours:Platteklip GorgeIndia VensterSkeleton GorgeKirstenbosch
