Capetown Trip

Me, Heather and her Scottish friend decided to do a trip down to Capetown at the end of 2006. It would be my first trip down to Capetown and I was 25 at the time. I know shameless for a South African to see London before Capetown.
Nevertheless off we went to the airport and down to Capetown. We landed and as with most trips in a country with horrific public transport we went in search of the car hire. We had booked the cheapest thing we could and we were half expecting an old crappy car without even a radio in it. Lucky for us those where out of stock. So we got a nice little City Golf with a radio which we could hook up to my iTrip and we were set.

We made our way the long way around from the airport to Kommetjie on the South West coast going past Chapman's peak. The stunning little cliff side road has spectacular views over the ocean alongside the mountain.

We arived at our little chalet in Kommetjie and we were pleasantly surprised with the size of the place. It had a large kitchen, separate lounge and the next morning we discovered we had a sea view just across the rooves of a couple of Cape Dutch style cottages.

The first morning we set out for some tanning on Clifton Beach. As beaches go its a very nice, clean beach. The day we were there a couple of youghts were parked just off shore. Me an Jen went down to the water to attempt a swim. We didn't get in much deeper than the soles of our feet though.

After the beach we all went to la Med for Lunch and even though we took all precautions on the beach to avoid sunburn, we kinda neglected it sitting outside at lunch. So despite knowing better me and Heather both ended up with a sunburn on our first day. Jen escaped this somehow, in fact she escaped getting sun burnt at all.

We decided to go visit Heather's cousin and we ended up going with them to the botanical gardens in Capetown. Apparently there are frequent concerts held there where local bands perform. So we spent the late afternoon sitting listening to "fishbowl" with the great table mountain as a backdrop.













We also had a fantastic day at Table mountain. The sky was fantastically clear and we could see forever. The cable car ride up the mountain was also quite amazing. You just see the rock face of the mountain approaching and if you look down you see people on the trails below like ants scurrying up the mountain manually. I'll try it one day....

Boulders beach was not only a cool place to see penguins but also the only beach we were on where swimming was possible. Well it possible in allot of places but if you wanna go into the water in lots of places the Cape your braver than I am. The penguins weren't as eager as I was to make friends tho.