Bakoven is a small residential suburb on the west coast of the Cape Peninsula, in the southwest of Camps Bay.

South of Bakoven and Camps Bay the coastline is protected, with thousands of acres of mountain Nature Reserve.

It has a quiet beach atmosphere, good conditions for snorkeling, boating and fishing, as well as the Nature Reserve in the South, with trendy Camps Bay to the north and east.

[2] Bakoven has two popular beaches, Beta Beach and Oudekraal - which were an old settlement of Khoi San people there, the original people in the Cape.

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