Republic of SOUTH AFRICA:- 2nd Day:- Cape Town, March,23rd 2019.

Republic of SOUTH AFRICA     

2nd Day:- Cape Town - 23.03.2019

Table Mountain, Paarl, Stellenbosch

After we had breakfast in our Hotel Lady Hamilton, around 09.00 o’clock, our bus ‘Mega Coach’ took us to the Table Mountain. After a short trip we arrived at the Lower Cable Station. We bought the tickets. The weather was beautiful and warm. Sky was clear and there was no wind at all. There were a lot people in the queue waiting for the aerial cable car. We waited approx. 40 minutes in order to take the cable car.

Cable car of Table Mountain

Endemic animal of the Table Mountain

Looking the west from the top of the Table Mountain

Top view over the city Cape Town

Looking to the North from the Lower Cable Station

Table Bay view

The cable car has a rotating circular floor. Without holding the handrails or sidewalls of the car everybody can have a circular view around the car. There are two cable cars each with a capacity around 50-60 passengers. While one of them is ascending, the other one is descending downwards. The view from the top of the Table Mountain is fantastic. It is open to 360 deg. In the North direction there is Birdseye view over the city Cape Town.

If someone look to the West direction there is endless/ indefinite view over the Atlantic Ocean. Just in the skirts of the Table Mountain, in the West direction there is Camps Bay.

There are summer houses of some famous people at the Camps Bay. However, the beach and the sea is well attractive there is no interest to obtain benefit out of this. It is said that the water is cold even in summer and there is the risk of the white sharks here around.

Camps Bay :- Where the first discovery ships of Portugal have landed.

The so-called Lions Head (rocky extension about 670 meter from sea level) is also one of the remarkable views from the Table Mountain and from the cable car. We walked on the top of the Table Mountain approx. one hour and took a few pictures of the surrounding.

Lions Head Hill from the Table Mountain skirts.

We took again the cable car in order to go down. There are also trekking routes around the Table Mountain (1087 meter from sea level) and someone can see these in the skirts of the mountain. When we arrived at the Lower cable Station our bus continued in the direction (N1 Road) to the Paarl. There are a lot of vineyards in the East side of the Cape Town.  Paarl is also one of the regions where there are vineyards and wine producers.

After almost 1½ hour we reached to the wine producer KWV Wine Emporium. It is a well-known factory and in the world list top 5. They produce many kinds of wine, brandy.

We paid a tour in the factory and then we stopped for wine testing. The lady offered us 6-7 different kind wines and one brandy. After that we bought a couple of things in their shop.

Imoya Brandy of KWV is advisable.

Wines aging in the Oak Barrels

Biggest oak cask I have ever seen :- 202,301 liter of wine.

Wine Testing

We continued on the bus in the direction of the small city ‘Stellenbosch’. This is a small university city with a very nice and picturesque surrounding. The green and colorful gardens of the houses and the clean streets are romantic. We stopped in a park place and then walked to the restaurant. It is a nice and big restaurant with clean tables and garden.

We sat outside in the garden and ate nice food under the comfortable weather condition.

After the lunch we started to walk to our bus. Our bus took us at a street where we waited some of our people walking slowly. Then we had a small walking in the street. There are nice and friendly coffee houses, souvenir shops and art galleries at both sides of the calm street.

After half an hour we stepped into the bus and the bus drove us to the Cape Town, to our Hotel Lady Hamilton. We took a rest and around 20.00 we called an UBER taxi and this one took us to the Bree Str where there is the Tapas Bar/Restaurant which we had planned to go. It is approx. 4-4 ½ km from our Hotel. Since it was Saturday the street is busy in the night. There are a lot of people in the restaurants, taverns and cafés.

We sat in the ‘La Parada Bree Street’ (107 Bree St, Cape Town City Centre). We ordered

some of their specialties and enjoyed our dinner with a couple of beers.

After that we started to walk along the Bree Street in the direction to our Hotel. The street was safe but in some place we had to be careful. The people do say that usually there is crime in the city. We followed the Kloof Street heading our Hotel.

We were lucky it didn’t happen any bad thing and reached to our Hotel around 22:00.