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Well let’s start with the top 3 tourist attractions in Cape Town and how you can make Cape Town accessible for your visits. As I eventually want this to be an accessible blog one day.

Boa-kap

Bo-Kaap is one of the most vibrant neighbourhoods in South Africa because it’s so colourful. The culture here is mostly made up of Muslim religion and Cape Malay Community. Did you know that the houses were made white and was painted colourful to celebrate the war ending in South Africa.

I would recommend getting your taxi driver to drive your way up here instead of planning a whole excursion out of this attraction as there’s no point. Alternatively if you have a car you can take yourself to go and see the colourful houses and the best thing is that you don’t have to get out the car. Which makes it even better for us who have wheelchair accessible need, invisible disabilities and people who are neurodivergent people because you don’t even have to get out the car. Tune into later on in the series though to hear about what our journey to see the neighbourhood was like.

Cable Car to the top of Table Mountain

While Boa-Kap neighbourhood community is on the way to Table Mountain it would make sense to talk about this attraction next.

The reason why it’s called Table Mountain is because when there’s clouds covering the mountains it looks like a table cloth when the clouds covering mountains so that’s why it’s called Table Mountain. It’s near a mountain called Lions Head which you can hike up as well as Table Mountain but be careful if you are hiking up I recommend taking a guide or just going up in the cable car is the best way too get too the top.

How to do this excursion if you have a disability?

My number one advice is to get there as early as possible to avoid queuing because the queues are very long. You might be waiting a while so my advice would to book your ticket online beforehand because the queue for online bookings normally go down quickly. As well as this you can get a discount on your ticket and I think a carer goes free as well.

The actual cable car is quite large but they try to fit as many people as possible in the cable car as they can to avoid people waiting and long lines. Due to this it does feel kind of squashed in there but it’s for a matter of minutes until you are at the top of the mountain anyway. I just wanted to make people aware of this to prepare those of you who are neurodivergent and don’t like crowds to be prepared but the views from the top can be awesome if you get it with no cloud on top. There’s a coffee shop, cafe and gift shop on top of the mountain which you can go to get away from the cold because it’s freezing at the top of the mountain so wrap up warm take extra layers because you never know when you might need them.

Cape Point of good Hope

The Cape of Good Hope is where the Atlantic meets the Indian Ocean. It was originally named the Cape of Storms and was later named the Point of Good Hope to attract more tourists to Cape Point and to give hope to anyone who visits this attraction.

People who come to visit Cape Point normally visit the lighthouse as well. They normally hike up to the lighthouse so it’s not accessible for people in a wheelchair so just be aware of that before going up there. If you are able to get out your wheelchair then you might be able to manage it. Which brings me onto the next section which is all about accessibility so this is something i will talk about in the next section.

Accessibility at Cape Point

The Flying Dutchman funicular is wheelchair- accessible as there is ramps to get on and off the funicular is easy. Be aware though that it can be a long wait though to get on the funicular as we didn’t get to the front of the queue this time as it was busy. We were only there for about 15 minutes though so not too long to wait which is good for people like me who have autism or another neurodivergent condition or someone that struggles waiting.

Once at the top there’s no disabled toilet I had to use the normal female toilets so it was just so you were aware. There’s also a museum to have a look at when you get on and off the funicular if you fancy. Be aware of the operating times as I don’t want anyone to get stuck at the top of the summit with no way of getting down that’s all.