Deep and I visited Cape Town during the recent Easter holidays and had a wonderful time! Here are some photos from our travels. We spent 3 nights and 4 days exploring the entire region including the city, waterfront, Table Mountain, Robben Island, Western coast, up and down the peninsula, Cape Point and the wine country. Cape Town is definitely one of our favourite destinations in the world! The weather is excellent, the natural landscape of the region is so beautiful, the history is of course fascinating, the food is superb and best of all the rand affords you a great time (15 rand to the pound, we were in heaven!) :) Some highlights include:
- We took a fenicular (cable car) up to the top of Table Mountain and hiked around the top, where there were incredible views of Cape Town!
- We drove down the East coast of the peninsula down to Cape Point, took a fenicular up to the top for some fantastic views from Cape Point, and then drove back up to Cape Town along the Western coast, which has some of the most breathtaking views! Reminded us of an untouched version of the PCH or Highway 1 in California.
- Deep had organised a personal helicopter tour of Cape Town and the wine country, which was lots of fun! We even landed in Franschhoek in the wine region to have lunch at a vineyard called Haute Cabriere, which was delicious!
- We took a ferry to Robben Island to explore the place where Mandela spent most of his years as a political prisoner. The tour given by an ex-politicial prisoner who was at Robben Island during the same time as Mandela was truly fascinating and his stories were both interesting and of course terrifying as well.
We would both highly recommend you all visit and 4 days is a good amount of time to spend, although 5 would have been a little less hectic. If you want any tips, just send us an email! :)
