Cape Town

Cape Town
Date(s): December 9-12, 2014. Album by David Clement. 1 - 63 of 63 Total. 14 Visits.

1 walked right down to the Victoria and Alfred Waterfront when I arrived	2 feels too warm for Christmas	3 Nobel Peace Prize winners	4 my hotel, the Portswood
5 old "whites only" bench	6 District Six, still largely unoccupied after its residents were forcibly removed during apartheid regime	7 Castle of Good Hope, built by the Dutch East India Company; used to be on the coastline of Table Bay	8
9 Company's Garden with Table Mountain in the background	10 parliament - Cape Town is the legislative capital, Bloemfontein the judicial capital, and Pretoria the administrative capital	11 Nelson Mandela gave his famous speech here after being released from prison	12 hop on hop off bus took me up to Lower Cable Car station
13 the cable up to the top	14 but it was too windy for the cable car to run today, so I had to hike up (I probably would've hiked up anyway, but definitely not down!)	15	16 some pretty steep parts
17 the route up; the paved road is where I started; Devil's Peak in the background	18	19 this is the highest part of the mountain - Maclear's Beacon	20 video; Robben Island in the distance there
21	22 Upper Cable Car station; everything was deserted today	23	24 Lion's Head and Signal Hill; Robben Island in the background
25 V & A Waterfront at the top of the picture	26	27	28 cloud enveloping the top of the Table on the way down
29 post hike snack, including the strange ostrich biltong	30 on the hop on hop off bus on the way back to the waterfront; I think this is Camps Bay Beach	31 the view of the Table from my seat at Karibu restaurant	32 bobotie in the foreground and putu/chakalaka in the background
33	34 the next day on Cape of Good Hope tour; Camps Bay Beach I think; the water is about 10 degrees; 12 apostles in the background	35 crazy guy at Hout Bay	36 Chapman's Peak with Hout Bay in background
37 Chapman's Peak panorama	38 me at Cape of Good Hope	39 male ostrich at Cape of Good Hope	40 Cape Point
41	42 funicular is an option but <10 minute walk up	43 old lighthouse	44 new lighthouse
45	46 lunch at Simon's Town; this was my guide and Japanese tourists	47	48 penguins! so tiny
49 penguin pano	50	51 some of them are going through their 3 week non-waterproof stage	52 Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden
53 Robben Island Museum - the ferries to the island were all broken (!?) on my last day	54 Clock Tower	55	56 One and Only Hotel >$700 per night
57 Bo-Kaap, formerly known as the Malay Quarter; Lion's Head in background	58 video of Noon Gun on Signal Hill	59 view of World Cup soccer stadium from Signal Hill	60 V & A Waterfront
61 heading back down through Bo-Kaap again	62 lunchtime view from Den Anker restaurant	63 V & A Waterfront daytime version; about to leave for the airport

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