Few cities can follow a morning of galleries and markets with an afternoon on sand this glamorous. Clifton's four granite-boulder coves and Camps Bay's palm-lined sweep sit fifteen minutes from the centre, with the Twelve Apostles ridge glowing behind the sunbathers. The Atlantic side is famously icy — swimmers head round to Muizenberg on warmer False Bay. Summer, December to March, is beach season; book the Table Mountain cable car for late afternoon and watch the coast turn gold.
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