CAPE TOWN AND SURROUNDS

DAY 1-2 - CAPE TOWN AND SURROUNDS
26-27 June 2004

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SOUTHERN AFRICA 2004

ARRIVING TO CAPE TOWN


Welcome to Cape Town, banner of 'Cell C' phone company.	Road Lodge at the Airport was our hotel for the first 3 nights, as we had a lost suitcase, which arrived two days later.	This Landrover Defender hired from the company 'Just Done It' was our car and home, with a comfortable roof tent on the top.	The stunning view of the table Mountain, from the City Center.

ON THE TOP OF TABLE MOUNTAIN

Cape Town - City Bowl - Panorama from Table Mountain. We went up by Cable Way.
Cape Town is one of the most beautiful cities of the world. The city is dominated by a towering, table-shaped mountain, set on a peninsula of soaring, rocky heights and lush valleys, where two oceans converge, the Indian and the Atlantic.


Going up to Table Mountain by the famous Cableway.	We enjoyed the panorama from the top:...	...smaller peaks, miniature houses and roads, sweeping white waves...	The city itself is far larger than we could think.

Fascinating plants of the Table Mountain area.	Little rock dassies, expecting food from tourists...	... however feeding these little animals is incorrect behavior.	Our hired car and the nice panorama of the City Bowl.

Sometimes clouds were climbing on us...	Lot of cars parking at the lower station of the Cable Way.	The modern City Center in Cape Town.	Acacias are lovely African trees

PICTURES OF THE CITY


The impressive building of the City Hall was built in 1905, and it is one of the landmarks of the city center.	Victoria and Alfred Waterfront is a world of elegant outlets, banks, shops, entertainment facilities	Devil's Peak?	Modern building in the town center and the Table Mountain in the background

Old and new buildings in city center	The majestic old Standard Bank Building was built in the late 1890s	Silky grass grow everywhere along the roads.	The Upper Station of Cableway is covered by clouds.

AROUND CAPE TOWN


Gabor and Klara somewhere at Sea Point. Twelve Apostles (twelve peaks) in the background, south from Cape Town.	Cute houses on the main street of Simon's Town	Baboons live in Good Hope Reserve on Cape Peninsula.	Baboons might be dangerous when attracted by food. Visitors must not feed or tease them.

Cape Point is a place of heavy sea storms, where Atlantic meets the Indian Ocean.	Cape of Good Hope is the most South-Western Point of the African Continent.	Sunset at Cape of Good Hope. our 'Just Done It' Landy is parking on the beach.	The view of Table Mountain is really majestic, from the otherside of the Table Bay.