Cape Town's topless bus tour
posted by Paul
We've wanted to do Cape Town's open-top bus tour for months, perhaps even years. The arrival of our niece and nephew from Sydney was apparently the motivation that we needed. We caught the bus at the V&A Waterfront (just outside of the aquarium) and went as far as the Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens on the first leg of our tour. There we paid the R32 (per person) entrance fee, found a grassy spot (as if perfectly manicured lawn was difficult to find :)) and hauled out our picnic lunch. I'll write about the gardens some other time, but just to put you in the picture, we watched ducklings waddle across the lawn, turtles duck into ponds (and come rushing back after us when we left), and baby guinea fowl trying desperately to keep up with their mom.
We caught the next City Sightseeing bus from Kirstenbosch over to Hout Bay and then along the coast past Llandudno, Camps Bay and Sea Point, before heading back to the V&A Waterfront.
In theory you could do the entire trip in two and a half hours - we took slightly longer because of our Kirstenbosch lunch meander through the gardens. All in all the trip was definitely worth the ticket price of R120. The only two cautionaries that I'd like to leave you with are:
1. Use sunscreen if you're going to ride on the top deck
2. Try and choose a day that's not too windy
4 Comments:
hey! thanx for your uber cool comments on my side! just posted some pics of the mountain, you might like to see! now! im freakin jealous of your fab trip on the ct red bus! we have been wanting to do it since we arrived in ct 3years ago, its a thing we do, we try to do all the city tours on the open air busses everywhere we go! ...you have inspired me to do it before we leave this awesome, awesome town! thanx for the little push... sj ps: can i just get the tkts outside the aquarium or any suggestions?
@sarah-jane: We ran a little late catching the bus - that and the wind put a little bit of a damper on the trip. If you're gonna do it any time soon, catch an early bus and see if you can wait until the wind dies down a little. It'll be far more fun I'm sure. :)
Yeah, you can buy the tickets on their website right here: https://www.citysightseeing.co.za/buy_tickets.php - You can then collect them from the outside-aquarium kiosk.
Yup, you can also buy tickets just outside of the aquarium.
As you can see we're a little behind on posting (mostly because of all the stuff we've been doing with our visitors from Sydney) - I'm suppose to be catching up today but we're about to host a pool-party & braai for his 18th. We'll then be going to Rick's Cafe off Kloof Street later tonight... so I don't know when I'll actually manage to catch up on those posts! :)
Let us know how your bus trip goes.
P.
I think doing the Topless Bus Tour thing is a great way af seeing the city, any city. Many cities offer topless bus tours and normally you get commentary as well. So you won't miss any important sights and history.
So pleased you've done this trip 'at last'!! We have been several times on the red bus and will be going again on our next visit.
It's such a super way of seeing the city and been up top you see places and things you wouldn't see if you were just walking around!!
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