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While the sheep flock to the beautifully scenic yet horribly overcrowded Camps Bay on the Atlantic coast, avoid the crowds (as well as the ice-cold currents) by crossing over to laid-back St James Beach – a picture postcard of multicoloured coastal shacks. Here you can bask in the warm waters of the Indian Ocean and enjoy the finest and freshest hake and chips you will ever taste, at local favourite Kalky’s.
Just be sure to leave room for dinner. Cape Town boasts one of the most excitingly burgeoning restaurant scenes on the planet, with myriad fine dining options at Nando’s prices. For the best steak in town – and here, that really is saying something – as well as local cuts of lamb and game, head to Carne. Alternatively, you can watch the sun sink into the Atlantic as you trip through the five-course tasting menu at Roundhouse (from £35), a converted 18th-century hunting lodge in the shadow of Table Mountain. Flights to Cape Town from £670 return on South African Airways