Information on Muizenberg, Western Cape, South Africa

Muizenberg is a suburb of Cape Town, Western Cape. It is situated where the shoreline of the Cape Peninsula curves round to the east on the False Bay coast. Muizenberg has a long beach that in effect stretches all the way round the top of False Bay to the Strand. The colourful wooden cabins are a popular photo subject for fashion shoots. Muizenberg is considered to be the birthplace of surfing in South Africa.

Historically, the village has several notable features, including Het Posthuys, Rhodes' Cottage and the location of the Battle of Muizenberg. Rhodes' Cottage is a small house on the seafront that Cecil John Rhodes bought as a holiday cottage, and this was where he died in 1902. The house is preserved as a museum dedicated to Rhodes' life and is open to the public.

Above Muizenberg there is a sequence of steep cliffs that are hugely popular as a venue for rock climbing. Although certain parts of the cliff are off limits to climbers when birds nest on the ledges. The Zandvlei estuary enters the ocean in Muizenberg and is one of the most important estuaries for fish spawning on the coastline.