Kapstaad 2

Right, so now Im back from dinner, burned my tongue with a hot pizza, but was worth it. So back to business.

After a couple of days in Cape Town I decided to rent a car for a day and go to the famous Cape Wine region. This are located around Stellenbosch, the second european settlement in South Africa. Stellenbosch is also a school town, the university has around 20,000 students and most people here speak Afrikaans. The town itself is quite nice, lots of trees, small streets, dutch architecture. But the real nice are the scenaries around. The town and the vineyards are located in the Cape range, so you have huge mountains surrounding the place. There are lots of samlls towns and wineries around and the weather is very clear and nice, if a bit too hot for me.

The catch on this was the fact that south africans drive on the left side of the road and the steering wheel is on the right side of the car, so I had to do some adjusting to that. But I made it back alive! At night I took some guys from the hostel for a drive up Signal Hill, a small hill next to the city and then came back and had some beers.

Next morning me and the guys (Sarah from Ireland, Nick from South Africa and Charlie from England) went to the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront, a commercial point next to the ocean where the boats leave and with a bunch of stores and places to eat. At night we headed to Camps Bay with some more people, a more upmarket part of town, with lots of cafes and bars, next to the beach to watch a game a just hang around. It ended with a quick midnight ocean jump.


Finally today just went back to the waterfront for lunch and then i boarded a bot to go to Robben Island. This is the place where Mandela and many other political prisoners, including namibians, were held during appartheid. The island is about 11 kilometers from land and holds different prisions. It was here that the goverment decided to put the political prisoners so they would be isolated and wouldnt politize the common prisoners. The tour is conducted by former prisoners, whho relates their own stories and takes you ninto the cells, bathrooms and diferent areas of the museum. The museum was actually created by petition from the ex-prisoners so people could learn about it and that wont happen again. On the boat you get to see a lot of wildlife, since the cape is where the cold Benguela current and the hot Indian current meets, it has very varied wildlife, which I saw today in the form of seals, penguins and even whales!

SO for the next few day ill lose contact with the world since I star my 3 week camping tour across South Africa, Namibia and Botswana. WIll try to find a internet somewhere to post updates.