Now, I will talk about attractions located around Cape Town city..those that can be covered in a hour's ride from Cape Town. in fact, there are many but I will only talk about 2 of them..
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| At Table mOuntain National Park |
1) Cape Point Peninsula
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| Seascape |
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| At the iconic Sign |
It has been known that the convergence of the Indian ocean and Atlantic ocean happens near to cape point, not exactly at cape point but it is Cape Agulhas. the visit to cape point was made possible with African eagles tour. you can opt to do self drive too. In this tour, we stopped over at Hout bay, Muizenberg, Simon's town and the Cape Point.
The scenery at Cape of Good Hope was mesmerizing with the beautiful seascape. Everyone wanna take picture with the signage, including us! And I do recommend to take the cablecar up at Cape Point to see the sea from above..I cannot emphasize enough on the sea and waves you get to enjoy at south Africa..it's the best I have ever seen before..
The tour also brought you to
Boulders beach..where the African penguin colony resides in. You pay an entrance fee to get into the beach..(this beach is special tats why is not free)..but I enjoyed sometime looking at penguin behaviours, their actions, mating process, and adult penguins taking care of their eggs under the shade.
This tour was prearranged by Pamela.the freelance driver who brought us to the centre was Mike Zuma..he was an amazing guy I will talk further later..He brought us to!khwattu culture centre to learn about the origins and all about the San bushmen, who were one of the first to colonize South Africa. This centre was started as an initiative to support descendants of these bushmen to learn skills and receive education as a non profit organization. We met with a young man, named Andre Antonio, whose parents were San bushmen. He has developed an impressive set of music skills from this centre and will be on his way to receive music education at Germany..this has been kindly supported by the centre. Professionals fromAfrica, Sweden,Norway also go there to teach students and help them develop skills so that they can contribute back to the society. We learnt so much from Andre as he told us all about bushmen living.. the medicinal practices, the plant species, the traditions and culture we found them interesting to learn about.
After the visit to the centre, Mike brought us to this national park to spot some wildlife like antelopes, springboks, cape zebras..snakes..tortoises etc... We managed to spot some ostriches...but the vegetation was really high that time..and we didn't have much luck..there is a really beautiful beach within the park where pple do yachting, fishing, or just simply suntanning. We did see some elands there..they were huge! Near the size of bulls!you needed to pay a nominal fee to enter the park.. But in our hearts, we still think De Hoop Nature Reserve is still the best thus far..I will talk about that in the following parts.
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| West Coast National Park |
So these are the places we covered in our short excursions out of cape town. In the next few parts to come, I will share with you attractions in other parts of Western Cape as well as Oudtshoorn in the Eastern Cape. We actually did a 10day circular route starting from Cape Town..then to cover Hermanus, Swellendam, Oudtshoorn, Inverdoorn Game Reserve(Ceres)..and then back to Cape Town..
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