Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did.
So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. --- Mark Twain

Saturday, January 28, 2012

Cape Town

And Cape Town it is. Coming here by car it took me 371 days and 41.000 kilometres were covered.

Cape Town is different, as if it were not real Africa. Africa as such is usually associated with villages and towns of quite different looks.

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Mouille Point Lighthouse

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Slangkop Lighthouse.

The Good Hope Cape is located south of the town

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For Europeans the Cape was discovered by Bartolomeu Dias and at first he called it The Cape of Storms. Later it was renamed the Cape of Good Hope as the long search of the road to east - to India - was found.

Immediately next there is another cape – called Cape Point, and it appears to be a place visited by almost every tourist while in Cape Town. At least – this was the impression as the parking lot was full of cars and tourist buses were coming and going constantly.

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The highest accessible point was crowded.ˇ

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Cape Point is in the south

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Cape Point Lighthouse

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Even socks with lighthouses are on sale here. Not to speak of postcards, calendars, T-shirts, caps and all kind of other stuff .

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Guard at the parking place

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