Some people
asked me, why I'm talking so much and so exuberantly about Cape Town. The
reason is simple -: I fell in love with that city at first view. I would have
liked to visit the Table Mountain right away to have even a better view, but that
wasn't possible due to the table cloth - clouds on the mountains. The cable car
won't take anyone on top and everyone is called back by a horn. It simply is
too dangerous walking in the clouds / fog as there aren't any safety fences in
the national park area (right next to the cable car station are some walls,
however).
I started
reading Deon Meyer's thrillers featuring "Benny Griessel, a fading
policeman on the brink of loosing his job, his family and self-respect."
The crime scenes are always in Cape Town and I had the map of Cape Town and
vicinity ready as I was reading the novels. I had been fun reading and visiting
the city, where the novel play. It also gives inside into post apartheid South
Africa.
Here you
can see the table cloth and also the lookout point in "Thirteen
Hours" by Deon Meyer.
Looking
down from the cable car.
View from
the top. You can see most of the city and Robben Island on the left. There's
the football stadium and right of it you see Waterfront. The centre of the city
is where the higher buildings are.
You can
also walk up. It's 700 m change of altitude! The cable cat brings you up within
a few minutes ... Take enough water with you. And sunscreen.
And you can
watch the rock dassies.
Or have a
view of Camps Bay, where the richer people live.
Concerning
a ride with the cable car: be very, no be very, very, very early as the queue
might get very long.
The older
parts of Cape Town have a European touch.
I visited
the dock area and the harbour. Touristy Waterfront and the hard work area.
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A band
ready to play. Looks a bit like Buena Vista Social Club.
Lots of
restaurants and amusement.
Shopping
arcades - actually not my thing ...
... not
even with mermaids.
And the
docks.
Next to the
Clock Tower is the Nelson Mandela Centre. I just checked. But I would have had
to wait for about a week to get on a tour to Robben Island.
Looking
into Riebeck St. from a pedestrian bridge.
Benny
Griessel thrillers by Deon Meyer: Devil's Peak, Thirteen Hours, 7 Days, COBRA.
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