It is now more than 10 years after the end of a shameful phenomenon of racism and the clear expression of all remaining issues related to a class of color is the poor slums of 10km squares visible from the road linking the airport to the city. Soon after, however, the presence of small colorful houses under construction that will be the future home of nearly a million people very uncomfortable brightens the landscape.
We arrive at the city center or City Bowl, Which occurs purely colonial, with low houses, colonnades, all very neat, bright colors, even the cars are typically white, due to the high summer temperatures that reach up to measuring up to 50 °. Remember that in South Africa, the summer is our winter: December and January are the warmest months.
Only a small part looks like a real city with glass and steel buildings, which house the main offices of major oil companies or large companies and some buildings for public use.
Take a tour to Waterfront, which is the stroll along the harbor, where there are more than the Naval Museum and 'Aquarium of the two oceansEven local craft shops, bars and cafes where you improvise, and small concerts of gospel, which enliven the walk nicely and folklore. In this place, in addition to tourists, you will find a very diverse population, composed of whites and blacks, as well as Creole, Asian, Indian and from mixtures of various races, the result also of immigration in recent years.
Dominates most of the city to protect a mountain with no top, where the clouds as they stop to form a sort of corolla. This is Table Mountain, A plateau of 1.086m, on whose summit can be reached by cable car, but only in very windy days. From there the view is spectacular, both for this extended table on which to walk, to the view of the city and harbor. If then the hour of sunset colors of the setting sun seem even more beautiful and if it happens that some clouds remain trapped in the mountains is nice to see how it colors almost unreal.
The city has two public gardens "given away" by the people who made his fortune with the mining of precious stones (the founder of DeBeers is one of the most grateful benefactors). Here there are several species of flowers and you can spend your time watching the squirrels are also being caressed, and whoever is interested or passionate can also visit the Botanical Garden KirstenboschAmong the largest in the world.
After the long plane trip to get here until we can not take an additional shift of about thirty miles, the road curves all along the coastline, full of wonderful totally unspoilt bays including Buffles Bay with its white sand, some bush and nothing else. And now ... you're almost at the end of the world. The access point and base for the great travelers of the past from the African continent, East and from India.
The Cape of Good Hope including in the nature reserve Cape Point, Is the extreme point where the Atlantic and Indian Oceans meet. Try to go out with one of the boats you can rent up to the ideal point of union of water, you can also find colonies of African penguins and sea lions sleeping, resting or swimming around you. Or climb up to the summit where it is positioned detector distances in kilometers which indicates how you are away from major cities around the world.
Yes, it is true, the feeling that he is not in its usual collective imagination connects the word Africa, but remains a fascinating and interesting part of giving a new face to an extremely diverse continent with many surprises .
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