Cape Town...our journey begins....

Hello everybody,

I am back from my vocation and I really have to tell you a lot.

To begin with we, that would be Leonie, Klara , Signe, Pauline and me, started our trip in Cape Town and after five days we rent a car to go all the way back to Greytown.

Today I will tell you about our five days in Cape Town and in some other posts the journey will go on because otherwise it is a holy lot to read!

So after we had a lift to Pietermaritzburg, we went on a bus for about 24 hours. Yes, it sounds horrible but it wasn’t actually as bad as we all thought. Even at night we could sleep over two places because there was so much room left. The landscape we could see was really beautiful since we drove near by the Drakensberge and Lesotho.

Our hostel in Cape Town was really central in Greenpoint, so we were able to go pass the Mandila Stadium and go to the Alfred and Victoria Waterfront, where we spent a lot of time in the beautiful food market until we bought our lunch there. Delicious muffin with cheese and spinach: D

Afterwards we looked around in the stores and recognized that it is really touristic there .

Thr Table Mountain from the Waterfront

In the evening some stores along the Longstreet were open up until midnight and served some snacks and cold drinks while you were able to shop and enjoy their stores. We enjoyed the drinks and the music and even had a little fashion show in one shop. We enjoyed cooking our own dinner at the hostel and went to bed early sine we wanted to get up early the following morning.

Our plan to go for a hike to the Table Mountain was destroyed by the wind, so we went to spend some money with shopping in the Longstreet and the Greenmarket Square. There you could by many typical African souvenirs and enjoy the feeling of African trade.

Afterwards we walked through the Company’s Garden (really beautiful, passed the Parliament and walked to the City Hall. Both are nice old buildings!

We decided this was enough sightseeing for today and went to a supermarket to buy our dinner. Then we walked all the way on to the Lion’s Head and had a picnic with bread, cheese and African wine while watching the sunset! This was a magical and really beautiful evening, just look at the pictures :)

View from the Signal Hill

  Our way back was a little difficult because it was really too dark to walk back home, so we just walked on top of the signal hill, where we had a fantastic view over Cape Town, even though one part of the city was out of electricity, and drove back to the hostel with a taxi.

On Nikolaus we got up early to walk all the way up to Table Mountain. It was terrible hot and we were sweating horrible, drank a lot of water while suffering for almost two hours until we finally reached the very top. And what must I say it was defiantly worth it! The view was fantastic and we took a lot of pictures after we had an ice cream to coo, down a little. We took back the expensive Table Mountain Cab and walked all the way back to the hostel (5 km). We had to relax for the evening because we went to Longstreet to party. At first we dance in “Space” which is a mainly black club. We were shocked how close the guys came to us and went to another club. Luckily we fall into our beds very late after an exhausting day.

The next morning Signe and I had to get up early because we booked a tour to Cape Point. Our first stop was in one of Cape Town’s rich suburbs, which has a beautiful view over the bay and the Apostles. Afterwards we could visit the penguins at Simon’s beach. They are soo cute, I wish I could have one at home ;) We even saw a small turtle there. We hopped on our bus and drove towards the Nature reserve at Cape Point. We drove through it with a bike so we had a possibility to see the beautiful landscape in slow motion and do some sport before we could enjoy a heavy lunch.

With our fully tummies we went up to the Lighthouse, which was not really interesting and it was really windy there too. 

But the following walk to Point of good Hope was beautiful and I really enjoyed walking on the cliffs while watching the Ocean. We saw some Baboons and Ostrich on our way back. 

Our last day started with sleeping in since the last two days were really hard :D

After a nice breakfast we walked to Bo-Kaap, a Jewish part of the town with lots of colored houses. Nice to take some pictures, as you can see below… 

Afterward we walked through downtown, had a coffee and decided to go to the food market again.

In the evening we went to a typical African restaurant called “Mama Africa”. While eating African meals like Ostrich with raisin or curry a live band play African music. Sadly we were not able to see them, but in my opinion it was a nice evening :)

The following day we had to get up early to fetch our car and start our adventure…..