Here’s one thing we hadn’t tried yet in Cape Town, skydiving. Based some 35 minutes outside the city up the West Coast, this longstanding company offers daily tandem dives as well as static line and accelerated freefall courses under expert supervision. If you dive attached to an instructor, it will cost R1,450 per jump; the introductory static-line course (where your chute opens immediately after you launch yourself from the airplane), costs R900 and includes a day of training, followed by your first solo jump. Experienced jumpers can rent equipment.