Kirstenbosch

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14 November 2015

We used the time available to us on our extra Cape Town day to visit Kirstenbosch, South Africa’s world famous national botanical gardens, which cover 36 hectares in a beautiful location on the eastern slopes of Table Mountain. The gardens are home to about 9,000 of Southern Africa’s 22,000 plant species and we spent a delightful 3 hours wandering around the diverse attractions. What particularly impressed us were the pincushion flowers in the large protea garden, the recently constructed tree canopy walkway and the exhibition of life sized dinosaurs set in an amphitheatre filled with cyads, a plant species that has survived almost unchanged since they roamed the earth.

Then it was off to the airport to catch the evening flight to Dubai and onwards to Birmingham.

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