Beaches Of Cape Town
Cape Town has a wide variety of beaches divided into three regions by the Cape Peninsula:
- False Bay, including the long sandy beach running from Gordon's Bay to Muizenberg, and the smaller beaches along the East side of the Cape Peninsula
- Atlantic Seaboard, along the West (Atlantic) side of the Cape Peninsula
- West Coast, along the West coast running Northwards from Cape Town
The sea in False Bay is about 6 degrees warmer than the Atlantic Seaboard and the West Coast.
In 2011, Lonely Planet listed Cape Town second in its list of the world's top 10 beach cities.
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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