Arrived in Cape Town on a fantastic morning. Clear, sunny and calm. Got our luggage in 5 minutes and got a taxi to the hotel. Funny driver talking all the way from the airport to the hotel. Almost no traffic - sunday morning. Got a nice room at the hotel, left the luggage and went on tour with the hop on/hop off bus.
Sitting on the open top deck of the bus we had an excellent view of the town as we drove towards table mountain cable car - that turned out to be closed due to maintenance. So instead we took a short hike up the mountain for 20 minutes just to get a better view of Cape Town and to stretch the legs after 11 hours in the plane. Lovely. We hiked back to the bus and went to the harbour to catch our prebooked tour to Robben Island. That was amazing. After some 30 minutes of sailing on a small ferry we landed at the island, boarded the bus and had a 30 minute drive around the island before being guided through the prison by an ex-political prisoner. He was really good at making the tour something special.
Coming back to the harbour we found a nice place to sit and have a late afternoon beer in the sun before going into the mall and finding some food for the dinner. Back at the hotel we just crashed to bed. What an excellent first day.
Sitting on the open top deck of the bus we had an excellent view of the town as we drove towards table mountain cable car - that turned out to be closed due to maintenance. So instead we took a short hike up the mountain for 20 minutes just to get a better view of Cape Town and to stretch the legs after 11 hours in the plane. Lovely. We hiked back to the bus and went to the harbour to catch our prebooked tour to Robben Island. That was amazing. After some 30 minutes of sailing on a small ferry we landed at the island, boarded the bus and had a 30 minute drive around the island before being guided through the prison by an ex-political prisoner. He was really good at making the tour something special.
Coming back to the harbour we found a nice place to sit and have a late afternoon beer in the sun before going into the mall and finding some food for the dinner. Back at the hotel we just crashed to bed. What an excellent first day.
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