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Cape Town

South Africa · 20 quests

History

1 quest
Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town🇿🇦 Cape Town
Castle of Good Hope
Five walls once stood beside the sea

Nature

5 quests
Lion's Head, Cape Town🇿🇦 Cape Town
Lion's Head
Chains and ladders reach the rocky summit
Silvermine, Cape Town🇿🇦 Cape Town
Silvermine
Reservoirs sit high among the fynbos
Kirstenbosch, Cape Town🇿🇦 Cape Town
Kirstenbosch
A steel path hangs inside the tree canopy
Table Mountain, Cape Town🇿🇦 Cape Town
Table Mountain
Some plants here grow nowhere else
Arderne Gardens, Cape Town🇿🇦 Cape Town
Arderne Gardens
A huge fig hides among exotic trees

Art

4 quests
Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town🇿🇦 Cape Town
Zeitz MOCAA
A grain silo was cut open for art
Pan African Women Market, Cape Town🇿🇦 Cape Town
Pan African Women Market
Several floors hide a maze of African craft
Labia, Cape Town🇿🇦 Cape Town
Labia
It began with live theatre, not films
Long March, Cape Town🇿🇦 Cape Town
Long March
More than 100 bronze figures form one procession

Food

4 quests
Lamb, Cape Town🇿🇦 Cape Town
Lamb
Its flavor starts with what sheep eat
Doro Wat, Cape Town🇿🇦 Cape Town
Doro Wat
The bread is also the plate
Tasting Menu, Cape Town🇿🇦 Cape Town
Tasting Menu
The courses change with South Africa's seasons
Bobotie, Cape Town🇿🇦 Cape Town
Bobotie
Spiced meat below, baked egg on top

Beach

2 quests
Miller’s Point, Cape Town🇿🇦 Cape Town
Miller’s Point
Boulders hide a pool filled by the sea
Muizenberg Beach, Cape Town🇿🇦 Cape Town
Muizenberg Beach
Bright huts line this famous surfing beach

Sport

2 quests
Newlands, Cape Town🇿🇦 Cape Town
Newlands
Why does a mountain stand behind the wicket?
DHL Stadium, Cape Town🇿🇦 Cape Town
DHL Stadium
The old ground gave way to a white sports bowl

Party

2 quests
Gin Bar, Cape Town🇿🇦 Cape Town
Gin Bar
Honest Chocolate's alley ends at a gin courtyard
House of Machines, Cape Town🇿🇦 Cape Town
House of Machines
Motorcycles share the room with the bar

South Africa

Photo quests in Cape Town

What the catalogue actually holds here, and which of it is worth rearranging a day around.

Cape Town holds 20 quests across every category the catalogue keeps, led by Nature with five — though only just, with four in Art behind it.

Three of them are tier 1 — finds rather than fixtures, and the one tier whose check-in asks for PRO; the other 17 are open on any plan. Tier 3 covers 13 of them, which is the label for what a visitor would expect a travel app to have anyway.

Nature quests want weather and daylight rather than opening hours, so the season decides more about a trip here than the distance does. Art covers the work and the building around it, so a mural on an ordinary street counts alongside the collection with a ticket desk. A hillside has no door to stand in, so the quest is a point on the map and the photo has to be taken within 200 m of it.

By category

Each of these opens the whole category across every city, with the Cape Town quests among them.

Tier 1

The unexpected ones

The three quests in Cape Town the catalogue files as finds rather than fixtures — the half of a city a guidebook has no room for.

Nearby

Cities near Cape Town

Ranked by distance rather than by border, because from here the next useful stop is often the one in the next country.

Questions

About quests in Cape Town

How many photo quests are there in Cape Town?
20, across all seven categories the catalogue uses. The deepest groups are Nature (5), Art (4) and Food (4). Among them: Castle of Good Hope, Lion's Head and Zeitz MOCAA.
What is there to do in Cape Town beyond the obvious?
3 of the 20 quests in Cape Town are tier 1, which is the catalogue's own mark for a find rather than a landmark: the pipeline that writes it is told that tier 3 is "everything a visitor would expect a travel app to have", and that tiers 1 and 2 are "only the unexpected finds". Cape Town holds three at tier 1, four at tier 2 and 13 at tier 3. The tier 1 quests here are Miller’s Point, Long March and Arderne Gardens, which fall under Nature, Art and Beach.
Can you do all the Cape Town quests on one trip?
Not as one walk. The outermost of the 20 is 34 km from the middle of the Cape Town list, which makes this a region rather than a neighbourhood: several are a day out in their own right and are worth planning as such rather than fitted in.
Which Cape Town quests can you do for free?
17 of the 20 can be checked in on the free plan, and all 20 can be read and travelled to without paying anything — the catalogue is open signed out, on every plan. PRO covers the check-in on the hardest tier, which in Cape Town means three quests: Miller’s Point, Long March and Arderne Gardens.
How do I prove I visited a place in Cape Town?
Take the photo at the place and upload it. Your browser reads the location the camera wrote into that file and measures it against the quest's own coordinates; inside 200 m the check-in counts. The distance is measured to the point, not to the city: being in Cape Town is not what is checked, and a photo taken across town from Castle of Good Hope fails exactly the way one taken at home does. A file with no location in it cannot be checked at all, and a photo that has been through a messaging app usually arrives that way — upload the original out of the camera roll rather than a copy someone sent back to you. The Food quests in Cape Town sit on the room where the dish is served rather than on the dish, so that address is what the 200 m is measured from.