Western Cape

South Africa's most visited province is a place of almost unreasonable beauty and striking internal variety. Table Mountain watches over one of the world's great cities, the Winelands spread through valleys shaped by farming and migration, the whale coast curves through the Overberg, and the semi-arid Karoo begins to announce itself inland. This is where dramatic geography and layered Khoi, Dutch, enslaved Asian, British and contemporary South African histories collide with world-class food, wine, design and road-trip scenery.

Where the Atlantic meets the mountains