Table Mountain
The Table Mountain Aerial Cableway remains the most popular tourist attraction
Hermanus Flower & Eco Fair
30 September 2010 - 03 October 2010
Pringle Bay Conservancy Festival
11 September 2010 - 11 September 2010
Outdoor and Adventure
Heritage Day Unity Festival
24 September 2010 - 25 September 2010
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Biodiversity Facts about Cape Town
- Cape Town is one of only three cities in the world that ranks as an urban biodiversity hot spot.
- Cape Town is located within the Cape Floral Kingdom, the smallest and most diverse of the world’s six floral kingdoms.
- 70 percent of the Cape Floral Kingdom’s plant species are found nowhere else on Earth.
- Cape Town city is bordered by, and overlaps with, Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve and the Cape West Coast Biosphere Reserve
- Cape Town is also unusual in that an entire national park, Table Mountain National Park, is situated within its boundaries.
- Cape Town has an unusually high number of endemic plant and animal species - meaning Cape Town is their only home on Earth and any tourists or scientists wanting to see them in the wild have to come here.
- Cape Town contains remnants of the threatened "renosterveld" vegetation, one of the most endangered vegetation types. Unfortunately, there are many other threatened vegetation types.
- There are 190 endemic plant species in Cape Town.
- Cape Town is home to 27 amphibian species and the Table Mountain Ghost Frog and the Cape Peninsula Moss Frog are endemic.
- If you love creepy crawlies, then you’ll appreciate that the following are endemic to Cape Town: 31 species of spiders & scorpions; 21 species of millipedes & centipedes; 17 species of beetles; 17 species of crustacean; 12 species of earthworms and 2 species of butterflies.
