Cape Town from the street corner of our hotel
Castle of Good Hope
Town Hall
Kirstenbosch
These beaches are world famous and several movies have been recorded here. But what’s that? You can’t swim in the ocean here because it only has 9-10°C because of arctic streams. What are these beaches good for then?
In the evening we did a sunset tour to signal hill for a beautiful atlantic ocean sunset and a nice view on the city at night…
We started off be taking one of the hop on – hop off busses through town and got of at long street which is famous for its bars and restaurants.
Afterwards we had a long walk through downtown cape town.
First to a colony of seals.
Next we went to the famous cape of good hope.
And finally to a new colony of penguins, which has started breading on the shores recently…
We started at Company Gardens in the heart of the city. From there we had a good view on table mountain which sadly had its tablecloth on top.
Afterwards we went to the District 6 – Apartheid museum …
… and to the former malaisian residential area.
When finally the tablecloth was gone from table mountain we tested our luck…
… and were lucky.
Later we went to Robben Island were Mandela was imprisoned during apartheid…
… and had a tour by a former inmate, which was the more interesting since today is the day south africans celebrate the end of apartheid.
