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Shopping
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The V&A Waterfront is the city's most popular shopping venue, with good reason: it has a vast range of shops, the setting on the harbour is lovely and there's a huge choice of places to eat and drink when you want to rest your feet - but expect to pay above the odds for everything. The city centre also offers variety and, for some people's taste, a grittier and more interesting venue for browsing, especially if you're looking for collectables, antiques and secondhand books. Cape Town's suburbanites tend to do their shopping closer to home at the upmarket Cavendish Square Mall in Claremont or one of the other shopping centres that include the monstrously outsized Tygerberg Mall and the pastiche-Venice Canal Walk in the northern suburbs. If you're staying in the inner-city suburbs of Green and Sea Point, adjacent to the V&A Waterfront, you'll find supermarkets and other functional shops along Main Road, and the City Bowl suburbs are served by the Gardens Shopping Centre. There are other smaller shopping areas dotted about the other suburbs.
Shopping hours
have traditionally been Monday to Friday 8.30am-5pm, and Saturday till 1pm. But this has begun to change and lots of supermarkets, bookshops and other specialist outlets now open on Sundays and beyond 5pm. Other useful information
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South Africa,
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