Surfing in Cape Town - Best Surf Spots. Guided surfing trips, lessons and camps.
Cape Town has a golden surfing history and its surf-scene has nurtured many little tousle-haired grommets into the international surfing arena. In Cape Town you are never far from a beach and there are surfing conditions to suit every level of surfing ability. Complete newbies head to Muizenberg Beach on the False Bay Coast for a wonderfully relaxed atmosphere and easy, safe conditions to learn in. Surf schools proliferate here and its all ice-cream and colourful bathing boxes and lashings of sun-cream and slightly warmer water than over on the Atlantic side of the Peninsula.
Under rugged mountain cliffs, gnarly offshore breaks with giant marching sets, play host to annual big-wave surf competitions. Glassy, turquoise perfectly breaking waves that end their journey on soft golden beaches tempt surfers from around the world. There’s something for everyone on the Cape Town surfing scene.