Cape Town

Cape Town
We landed in Cape Town airport at 9:40am after a gruelling 11.5 hr flight. We both felt like we had been run over by the time we got off the plane and if we survive this trip without getting one of the many coughs that were knocking about on board it would be a miracle.
Our driver Sasha met us at the airport with one of those name boards you always see people holding when you get to the arrivals section, and it was a 25 minute drive to our hotel the stay easy and we arrived at 11:30am too early to check in.
We managed to find somewhere in the hotel to leave our bags and then we went for a walk to the shopping mall which is about 100 meters away from the hotel and situated on the Canal Walk of Cape Town. The canal walk is a beautiful paved area running approximately 5kms either side of the river and it has a park a huge shopping mall of over 400 shops and a massive food court. It really resembles the Disney boardwalk in Florida and we were blown away by it’s beauty..
Our first stop in the mall was the biltong store where we brought 400 grams of honey glazed biltong and now we knew we had arrived in South Africa. Our next stop was breakfast in wimpy which is another South African staple. Then we took a slow walk back to the hotel and checked in at 1pm.
Our room was cosy, with a double bed, tv, and tea making facilities and the first thing I did was clean my teeth and have a shower. Then we both took an afternoon nap.
At 3pm we decided to go for a walk and walked the entire canal walk looking at all the sculptures and then we walked 2 stories of the entire mall which worked out about 5 miles in total. Then we walked back to the hotel and chilled out for the rest of the evening.Leggi altro