Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Cape Town, South Africa

For our Spring Break/Easter travels, we took a marathon trip to South Africa, Zambia and Botswana (stepped briefly into Zimbabwe).  It was just amazing!  Cape Town is more like a mix of Europe/America and feels nothing like the rest of Africa.  It is beautiful, scenic, clean, quite inexpensive (with a US Dollar) - healthy and fresh food, adventure, relaxation, modern, historic, and more.  We spent a week in CT doing everything from seeing penguins and other wildlife to touring the wine regions to hiking to shark diving to touring a township to shopping and eating REALLY WELL! Did a lot of 'local' things like a wine festival and a weekend food/craft market as well.  I was in my element for sure. It's very family friendly as well - so I can't recommend it enough!  A place I will DEFINITELY get back to!


This is a sample of the townships located in grouped areas around the city.  






Winery at the highest point in CT

Beaded works seemed to be the thing here


Olive oil tasting


I love penguins


Wild ostriches along drive to Cape of Good Hope

View from Chapmans Peak

Grape juice tasting for the kids


Went to the BEST 'bird' show/experience at a winery



On top of Table Mountain

Wine Country

Hipster neighborhoods

Signal hill photo spot

On the way (yes, we flew business class with points) - wow!

My three boys loved all the biltong (South African version of beef jerky)

making a beaded tiger

Seal Island 
Shark!

The cable cars to Table Mountain

view from Table Mountain

taking food from his head

his first ever real zip line (maybe his fave thing)

Colorful neighborhood Bo Kaap (from Signal Hill)
I can't seem to get away from these guys

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