Must-see attractions in Port Elizabeth

  • Donkin Reserve

    Port Elizabeth

    This pleasant hilltop park is a good place to get your bearings, particularly if you climb to the top of the lighthouse. The pyramid is a memorial to…

  • SANCCOB

    Port Elizabeth

    Most of the world's remaining 25,000 breeding pairs of endangered African penguins are found around Algoa Bay; they are threatened by currents pushing…

  • Campanile

    Port Elizabeth

    This bell tower, visible from the city centre, was erected to commemorate the landing of the 1820 British settlers. Unfortunately, it’s near the entrance…

  • South End Museum

    Port Elizabeth

    Multimedia exhibits relate the history of South End, a vibrant multicultural district destroyed by apartheid bulldozers during forced removals between…

  • Bayworld

    Port Elizabeth

    In desperate need of modernisation, this complex includes a museum, an oceanarium and a snake park. The Xhosa gallery and the First People of the Bay…

  • Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum

    Port Elizabeth

    The museum housed in two handsome buildings at the entrance to St George’s Park has a small gallery of paintings and sculpture by contemporary South…

  • Kings Beach

    Port Elizabeth

    Sandy central beach, popular for sunbathing and swimming in the shallows. Take extreme care when swimming; the current is very strong.

  • No. 7 Castle Hill

    Port Elizabeth

    This museum-house, occupying a picturesque cottage dating from 1827, evokes a settler family's life during the mid-Victorian period.

  • Hobie Beach

    Port Elizabeth

    The beach of choice for windsurfers, sailors and kite-surfers, and sunbathers will also love it.