Too much has happened and I want to share it all. All the amazing products that I have used and been impressed with, BUT this is my most recent ultimate bargain. Well, it is an investment that I made a year ago and that I have to share with you, now that I can verify the value.
Table Mountain National Park has created a card especially for the locals of Cape Town. How many times have you moaned about the exorbitant fees (*read conservation fees) charged at the local Table Mountain National Park reserves?? (I know that the fees are well used, I just think residents should not be excluded from their own reserves due to cost).
Well, this is the solution: My Green Card. Before you get too excited, you do have to be:
- A South African citizen, and
- A Cape Town resident.
http://www.sanparks.org/parks/table_mountain/tourism/access-cards-permits.php#green
These are the reserves that you can enter with the My Green Card:
Cape of Good Hope (Cape Point); Boulders Penguin Colony, Oudekraal and Silvermine, as well as to the braai and picnic areas at Tokai, Newlands and Perdekloof.
You can bring along up to 6 adult guests with you, per entry, however they must bring along their SA ID and they will each be clipped off your card.
12 entries to any of the local nature reserves (within Table Mountain National Park) will only cost you R110! Last year, we decided to give it a try. With our 12 entries, we went to Silvermine Dam several times and to Boulders Beach to see the penguins. If we had not had the My Green Card, the entries would have cost us much more (R470 to be exact!). If we had gone to Cape Point (R110 per adult), or only used the card for adults we would have made an even bigger saving. I can highly recommend this card! If you are really active and often visit nature reserves, you could always get a Wild Card, but for now we have been so happy with the cost effectiveness of this option.
Enjoy!
