WALK & EAT CAPE TOWN : CONTENTS  (to return to the main page, click here)

PLAN OF CAPE TOWN  inside front cover

INTRODUCTION   4
the excursions   5
the walks  5
the restaurants   6
the recipes   8
cape food  9
south african wines  9
planning your visit   10
when to go  10
where to stay   11
what to take   12
medical advice 12
getting the most from your visit 14
safety in cape town 14
getting around cape town 16
tourist information  18
planning your walks   20
shopping for self-catering   20
finding out more 22
the authors 22

WALK 1 · cape town highlights   24
restaurant: mama africa (cape town)   34
recipe: bobotie  35

Walk 2 · pipe track  36
restaurant: café paradiso (cape town)  42
recipe: pickled fish   43

Walk 3 · lion's head   44
restaurant: the restaurant on table mountain (cape town)  50
recipes: butternut squash salad   51

Walk 4 · maclear's beacon   52
restaurant: marimba (cape town)  58
recipe: spiced ostrich fillet with prune-potato bake   59

Walk 5 · platteklip gorge   60

Walk 6 · skeleton gorge and nursery ravine   66
restaurant: silver tree (kirstenbosch gardens, cape town)  72
recipe: sweet and sour carrots, fruit with red wine sauce   73

EXCURSION 1 · hout bay circuit   74

Walk 7 · table mountain reservoirs   82
restaurant: constantia nek, constantia  88
recipe: braaied chicken sosaties  89

Walk 8 · hout bay to karbonkelberg   90
restaurant: lookout deck, hout bay  96
recipe: tomato bredie  97

EXCURSION 2 · simon's town by train  98

Walk 9 · mimetes valley   106
restaurant: empire café (muizenberg)  112
recipe: (a)frikkin' chickin'  113

Walk 10 · the amphitheatre and echo valley   114
restaurant: olympia café and deli (kalk bay)   120
recipe: braaied (barbecued) fish  121

Walk 11 · simon's town to boulders beach   122
restaurant: boulder's beach (simon's town)   128
recipe: thai seafood and butternut squash  129

Walk 12 · cape point   130
restaurant: two oceans (cape point)   136
recipe: sambals  137

EAT GF, DF   138
eating out  138
gf, df shopping   138
conversion tables  141

LANGUAGE   142
INDEX   143
map of the cape peninsula  inside back cover