Day 4 and 5

The weather here is amazing and the fact that there is such a wide diversity of life out here. Not much time before dinner, but here are a few shots.

• A hoity-toity beach: Camps Bay


• Another shot of Camps Bay Beach


• Cape Town Architecture:old and new


• One of the bays on the way to Cape of Good Hope


• Baboon on Cape of Good Hope


• Me, looking surly (but not really being surly) on the Cape of Good Hope


• One Spectacular view (looking down) on Cape of Good Hope


• Another View of Cape of Good Hope


• Penguins


• Just one image of the amazing flora - I have lots more but will force, ahem, share, them later.

Day 3: Wine, Goats and Slums

Day 3 was our day trip into the Wine Lands surrounding Cape Town. The area is truly beautiful: the weather feels a bit like San Diego, but the flora is exotic (as indicated by the photo from yesterday; today was much weirder stuff)

Not much time to do this post so here are some highlights:

• Afrikaan Language Monument


• The "Goats do Roam" Goat


• Grape Leave Buds in Spring


• The Vine Yards


• One of the oldest homes in SA, now a museum


• Historic Home, inside


• Slums, by the freeway

Day 2: Arrival in Cape Town

After a lengthy series of plane rides (the word would really be "numbing" since given the 2 days of travel I remember only bits and pieces of it), we arrived in Cape Town. The descent on the plane was amazing, framing the city against the Table Mountain so that the contrast of city and mountain was elegantly juxtaposed.

The driver from the hotel met us at the arrival gate and we headed towards our Hotel. Gray, the greeter, gave us a quick history lesson (the Dutch, the English, “Jo-berg” aparthaid, etc.)

After crashing for a few hours, we headed out for the afternoon to take the cable cars up to the top of Table Mountain.
Photos

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  Table Mountain


• Cable Cars to Table Mountain


• Cape Town from Table Mountain


• Flowers on the Top of Table Mountain


• Sunset Over the Water