Goodbye Cape Town! We'll miss you!
Goodbye Table Mountain!
Hello Windhoek (beer...from the plane).
...This is the best pic I could post to represent Windhoek...there just wasn't much else goin on there.
Tuesday, August 30, 2016
COS trippn' stop 2: Cape Town - Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens
These gardens are world-famous and well worth a visit! It's divided into different sections: plants for food, medicinal plants, aromatic plants, threatened/endangered plants, etc.
A view of Table Mountain, desigur. 😃
Here is a cool slithering bridge, designed to represent a Boomslang snake, which walks you over the garden canopy & gives you fantastic view of the gardens, Table Mountain, & Cape Town.
COS trippn' stop 2: Cape Town - Jackass penguins
We visited the Jackass penguins! Yes, that's their actual name cuz they sound like donkeys when they talk, which I can confirm cuz I heard them 😄.
The penguins arrived a couple decades ago on this beach & never left. It's a rare occurrence of wildlife kicking out the humans rather than the other way around (meaning, once they arrived & didn't leave, the people decided to protect them and are no longer allowed on the beach where the penguins reside).
Saturday, August 27, 2016
COS trippn' stop 2: Cape Town - Table Mountain
Like i mentioned in a previous post, Table Mountain can be seen from many different places and angles in Cape Town. Here are a few:
Observatory
Minibus station
Minibus station
On a walking bridge
Waterfront
COS trippn' stop 2: Cape Town - Free Walking Tour: District 6
So, these posts are a bit out of order...Stacy and i are blogging together for the first time since starting this blog, so we're a work in progress :op.
That said, this is on the plane from Jo'burg to Cape Town (the previous post we're already in Cape Town...opa!). Notice the happy smiling faces before they die in a firey &/or drowning crash. Pleasant.
Our first glimpse of Cape Town! YAY! :oD
This is the building where Nelson Mandela gave his first speech after being released from prison.
Cool street art. It represents the decades from the sixties thru the nineties of how South Africa looked politically during those decades. Our Free Walking Tour guide, Ken, said there are plans to paint over it soon with something more up-to-date.
More great street art. Like the statue in Jo'burg, this also represents the women that protested apartheid together...notice the baby on the back.
This is St. Mark's church which stood its ground and refused to relocate during apartheid so a college could be built there in it's place (because it's prime property for the area). The church was offered to be moved stone by stone and rebuilt exactly the same in another area and $1 million. They refused. Then they were offered $2 million and the "hassle-free" move. They refused. So, the college built around the church...and the church stands there til this day as a functioning church, surrounded by a college campus.
Table Mountain can be seen from many different angles in Cape Town, and in many different places there are these big yellow frames framing Table Mountain behind it. I liked the Nelson Mandela art in the frame with Table Mountain behind it.
This is world-famous Charly's Bakery...world-famous for it's cupcakes and quiches! So of course we had to go! Even the building is super adorable!! :o]
The cupcakes did not disappoint. On the left is the lemon meringue cupcake (my fave of the 2) and on the right is the vanilla w/chocolate fudgey center topped with chocolate ganache and sprinkled with peppermint (Stacy's fave). They were expectedly delicious!
Notice anything unusual about this photo?
COS trippn' stop 2: Cape Town - Observatory District
We stayed at a hostel in the Observatory District of Cape Town. We loved it there! The neighborhood was really cute and everything we needed, from good food to a grocery store was right there. It was also really close to the main road where it was easy to catch minibus taxis to the city.
The hostel (33 South) had great wi-fi and even gave us a quick tour of the neighborhood.
The food here was amazing. This is the best veggie burger we have ever had. It was from a place called A Touch of Madness. It was so good we had to go back a few days later and order it again.
The next day we had the Wrath Burger at a place called Jerry's, and we agreed it was the best beef burger we had ever had. So basically, if you like burgers you need to visit Observatory. No pics of this one because we ate it too fast!
There was lots of public art here in Obs.
And everywhere you went you could see Table Mountain. Gorgeous.
COS!
I completed my Peace Corps service and am now officially Returned Peace Corps Volunteer (RPCV)! In Moldova, the tradition is to ring the COS bell on the day of COSing.
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