• Bron PlaskowskiTravelerIt Started As A 2 Week Cruise
    Bo-Kaap, with its colourful houses.
    The colour reminded me of Carmelita in Buenos AiresCamps Bay, a very wealthy suburb of Cape Town.The view from Chapman's Peak Drive.It's says it all in the photo!The lighthouse at Cape point, London not only feels but actually is a long way away.The view from the Cape Point lighthouse to the Cape of Good Hope the other side of the beach.Boulders beach and the African penguins.Penguins nesting and looking after their young chicks.To be honest, if I was told they were all beef I would have believed it.Lunch at the aptly named Harbour View restaurant in Simon's Town.Simon's Town high street with its colonial style buildings.Our van with a burnt out clutch stuck in the middle of the road on the way to the cable car.2Doesn't look that big but hold 65 people and rotates slowly so everyone sees the best views.2View of the whole of Cape Town.2Approach to the cable car station at the top of table mountain.View over the Lions Head and Signal Hill.There were lots of trendy bars and restaurants in Kloof St, would have been rude not to pop in!Our Local, a restaurant recommended to us by a couple we met on safari.

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    January 2 in South Africa ⋅ 🌙 19 °C

    Today we got picked up at 8am for an all day tour of Cape Town's suburbs and surrounding areas. The first stop was a Bo-Kaap a predominantly Muslim quarter famous for it's brightly coloured buildings.

    Then onto Camp Bay, a very swanky neighborhood with a beautiful beach and big houses. From there we drove along Chapman's Peak Drive, a road hugging and sometimes cut into the side of the mountain which had stunning coastal views.

    This took us to the Cape of Good Hope, the most South Westerly point on the African continent. I had thought it was the most southerly until a few days ago when I looked at a map. Then onto Cape Point lighthouse via a steep uphill 10 min walk, but with great views down to the Cape of Good Hope.

    Had lunch in Simon's Town, a place with attractive colonial buildings and covered pavements, protecting from the sun and also when it rains heavily. For lunch I went for a selection of bushmeat, zebra, impala and warthog. They all tasted great, but all very similar.

    Then our last stop, Table Mountain. We got three quarters of the way up the steep road to the cable car before the burning clutch on the minibus gave up the ghost. We'd been smelling it for several minutes before it gave finally packed up. Fortunately, it happened right outside the park and ride carpark, so within 3 minutes our guide had got us on a shuttle bus to the cable car, while they sent out a replacement.

    The cable car was great, really steep ascent but very stable. The views from the top were stunning, with the whole of Cape Town below nestled around the Lions Head and Signal Hill.

    Despite the long day, a 10hr 30min tour, we got off the tour bus near Kloof Street and had a few drinks and something to eat in this very trendy neighborhood, very much me!!    Read more