Blogs from Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, Africa - page 141

So, I've been in Cape Town for 2 weeks now! Holy COW!!! I feel like I'm on vacation and according to my dad that's what it sounds like as well! Within the first 2 hours of being in Cape Town I was on my way to the top of Table Mountain. On the second day I was on the top of Lions Head and since I have been on a peninsula tour, toured Robben Island, visited a few townships, moved into my house, been to 4 beaches, walked the botanical gardens and there is still so much to do. Everyone has said that I will experience culture shock but it hasn't hit me yet The most "shocking" thing is the townships. Shack after shack with people in the streets everywhere because they can not get a ... read more

Feb 13 Happy Valentine’s Day everyone; the shops here seem to be as eager to get your chocolate covered money as anywhere else in the Westernized world. Everywhere I go there are teddy bears and specials on pink lingerie…just like home. Weather: still lovely. Views: still beautiful. Still messing around with various bits of paperwork: I WILL get Internet access this week, I am DETERMINED.* It’s been a rough week for Maggie; while she had been feeling reasonably confident of her schoolwork, she was also beginning to challenge the system, in some ways without even realizing it. Still, I think that the whole experience will be incredibly important in her growth, and she still amazes me with her insight and logic. She seems to be making friends; was invited out by some girls Friday night and ... read more

Hello viewers, welcome to the next installment of the "Nick and Sarah TravelBlog", weve been quite the tourists these last few days visiting the major things like Table Mountain and robben island, we did them on 2 seperate days though,weve got the time to take things easy! aswell as table mountain we did a hop on hop off kind of tour, which took us round the city which we both found intresting but an open top bus + us + 30 degree weather sure was exhausting! we hopped off at a place called the Castle, which was used by the dutch, but unfrotunatly didnt find it as intresting as we had hoped, but at the cost of a pound it was no great loss, the reason we got off was that the cable car wasnt running ... read more

Morning All! After many months of planning we have finally made it!Although we had seen many photo's nothing could have prepared us for the breathtaking drvie into cape town, Table Mountain take centre stage, dominating the clear blue skyline. After ging through the realativly painless eperience that is Cape Town airport we were chauffer driven to our first hostel "Big Blue Backpackers" which sits just on the waterfront at the foot of Signal Hill. We were promptly shown round by the helpful staff and are amazed by our accomodation, it is completly the opposite of what you think of when you hear the word 'hostel', to give you an idea of the size of our private room we have a large double bed, aswell as a set of bunk beds! what we have those for i ... read more

January 6, 2006 Our flight arrived in Cape Town right on time, and even after an eleven hour flight, we were pumped and ready to go. We got one of the backpackers’ shuttles into the city center and checked in at the hostel. Lucky for us, we were early, as the hostel had promised three groups a double room, and there was only one available. After snatching it up, we locked our stuff in the storage room, and headed out to discover Cape Town. We couldn’t get into our room, so we were still dressed in our Milan clothes, and felt grubby and hot. We were also still wearing our running shoes, and the blisters on our feet were not too happy. We walked down to the castle, which is the oldest building in South Africa. ... read more