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13/10/2026

CAPE TOWN INTERNATIONAL (CPT) 🇿🇦💪

Africa's MOST BEAUTIFUL Airport✈️🥰

Voted best airport in Africa 8 times💯

Location: 20km from Cape Town city centre, Table Mountain view.

✈️ Code: CPT / FACT

👥 Passengers: 10.7 Million — #5 in Africa.

🛫 Runways: 2 runways

🏢 Hub for: FlySafair, Airlink, international tourism.

Why it is special:

1. View that KILLS — See Table Mountain behind tower in photo? No other airport in the WORLD has this. On landing, you see Table Mountain + Ocean + City in one frame.

2. Best Airport Award— Skytrax World Airport Awards: Best Airport in Africa 2015-2024. Clean, fast, friendly — security under 10 mins.

3. Tourism Machine — 70% passengers are tourists! Direct flights from London, Dubai, Amsterdam, New York. European winter = Cape Town summer, so flights are FULL Dec-Feb.

4. Sustainability King— First African airport to go 100% solar? Has massive solar farm + water recycling.

Fun Facts:

1) Old name: DF Malan Airport (apartheid PM) — changed 2006.

2) That striped tower? Icon — red/white rings, 50m high.

3) Has a spur museum: you can watch planes with Table Mountain + free w**e tasting inside.

Let's Tour Africa Together ✈️🇿🇦🌍

06/10/2026

CANAL WALK, CAPE TOWN 🇿🇦 - - The Venice of Cape Town🛬✈️

Official Name: Canal Walk Shopping Centre

Location: Century City, Milnerton, Cape Town — 10km from C*D — Cnr Century Blvd & Ratanga Rd.

Size: 141,000m² GLA — Largest mall in Cape Town — 3rd largest in Western Cape

Stores: 400+ shops, 60+ restaurants

Parking: 7,000 bays — massive open parking you see top left — 3,000 cars visible.

Owner: Hyprop Investments

Opened: 26 October 2000 — R1bn build — built in 2 years on former wetland — named after canals surrounding it.

It was built as part of Century City — 250-hectare smart city — first "city within a city" in SA. When it opened, Capetonians thought it was too far — now it's the economic hub of Northern Suburbs.

The only mall in SA where you can arrive by boat! Canals are man-made, 5km long, connected to Table Bay. During 2010 World Cup, it was fan park for 40,000 people.

FUN FACTS:

1) Canals hold 2.5 million litres of water — pumped from Milnerton lagoon — has 12 species of fish.
2) Domes are hand-painted with 10,000 blue tiles each — imported from Morocco
3) Century City has 12 office blocks around mall — you see them top left grey buildings
4) During Cape Town drought 2018, canals saved mall — used recycled water.
5) Has its own police station + Intellibus electric bus that loops canals
6) December gets 1.8M visitors — busiest in Western Cape

Let's Tour Africa Together 🌍✈️

08/02/2026

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28/07/2025

Safari time is the best with all love
And respect of nature

25/07/2025

Toujours dans la découverte de la nation arc-en-ciel .One united and peace

25/07/2025

Discover the beauty of nature with One life, live it and love it .Big charley travel

10/06/2025

Mother city , water front

07/05/2025

Come discover the most beautiful city in the world, cape town , the mother city of SA, with big Charley travel

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Cape Town
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