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Getting around Cape Town by Car
Driving a hire car in Cape Town is not different from driving in any other cosmopolitan city in the world. Like in Britain or any former British colony you will be driving on the left side of the road, which means as a driver you are sitting in the right front seat.
• To hire a car you will need a valid driver’s license in English, a credit card with embossed digits and you will need to be 23 yrs or older having held your license for 2+ years
• Signage is usually good and bilingual English and Afrikaans, but take care when you look for a street in the center of Cape Town and look for street names as they are given sometimes in Afrikaans wherever you will find them in your street directory only in English or vice versa, like Wale vs. Waal Street. The destination signs give the distance in kilometers.
• Speed limits are set on all the roads. There are quite a lot of speed traps or cameras all over Cape Town, but the places are well known and so drivers only adjust their speed often only just before the camera. But that does not mean you should speed!
• The official speed limits are 60kmh (35mph) in the city and 120kmh (75mph) on all open roads and the motorways like the N1, N2 or N5.
• Parking can be found easily in the city center in parking arcades or in marked street parking zones. When parking on the side of a street never park on yellow lines as you car most likely will be clamped or towed away. Official park attendants usually show you to an open parking spot and then will register your car in their hand-held computer system. Usually you pay upfront the standard amount of R7 per hour.
• Petrol is much cheaper here in South Africa. Pay cash or get a garage card from your bank to pay for petrol and garage services, as often credit cards will not be accepted as method of payment at the filling stations.
Western Cape (South Africa) Distance Chart (Distance Table): For your quick reference, below is a Distance Chart or Distance Table of distances between some of the major cities in Western Cape (South Africa).
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