Cape Town Shopping Tips by mke1963

Name of Shop: Informal Markets

Greenmarket Square has become a huge open-air African market, selling textiles, handicrafts and artwork from all over Africa. It?s a place heaving with activity all day, every day, and is an attractive place to linger even if you are not buying anything.

What To Buy: Africana of al kinds. An amazing variety of textiles, wooden and leather crafts - some of it beautiful, some of it just rubbish. All is sold with style, panache and a smile.


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Name of Shop: Shopping Malls

Shopping in Cape Town
The retail industry in Cape Town, and elsewhere in South Africa, has followed the US pattern very closely, with town and city centres emptying out in favour of out-of-town malls. Most shopping areas remaining in the centre of cities are open only during the week and on Saturday mornings, whereas the malls have the usual long opening hours, including Sundays.
On the Cape Peninsula, the Long Beach Mall at the southern foot of Ou Kaapseweg in Sun Valley, is a good mall with the usual variety of department stores, a few chain restaurants and ?one or two of everything else?.
Closer to town is the huge Cavendish Mall in Claremont, completely indoors and compltely sterile, but it does have everything. However, at the weekends, it can take a while to find a parking space in the attached multi-storey car-park.



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