Well this is it! This is goodbye to our second tour of the year. We are flying out this morning from Zambia, Livingstone airport into Johannesburg and then catching a flight into Cape Town. We are flying with Matt and Kasey and meeting up with Ellaina in Cape Town. I am looking forward to that.
I have been trying my best in the last two days to update the travel log, but I haven't send it to anyone yet, as alot more work needs to be done. but hopefully I will finish it once I am in Hong Kong.
I may be able to get on the net in Cape Town, but we are there for only 2 days.
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Sunday evening: 11:26 We have arrived in Cape Town
The flight into Cape town was really nice. We arrived in JHB around 3 in the afternoon and then flew into Cape town around 5 and arrived around 7. The whole thing was quite nice and smooth. We got the same Taxi as Jane and Toni from our previouse trip and got to our backpackers hostel. It is a very cool place actually. I have grown to like it! :) We met up with Ellaina, which was absolutely great. It is her 27th Birthday. She is also staying with us in the same hostel, which by the way is called the backpackers in Cape town.
Cape town is very nice, it is very modern. It is a very strange feeling to have left our camping and staying in tents and coming back to civilisation. To be honest, I have not missed this, but I am missing my tent! I truely feel that Africa is one place that I feel free and happy. For me coming back to modernisation and civilisation is not something I have been looking forward to! The buildings in Cape town are huge and are all lit up by these gorgeous lights. It reminded me alot of New York!
Monday Morning: 28th August
Yesterday evening, steve and I discovered that our plane ticket had a different date for our travel to Hong Kong than our itinery. So this morning, I got on the phone to the Ba and managed to sort out the problem, which meant we are leaving tomorrow morning and not the next day. It is kinda sad because it means we won't be able to do some things with the others, such as great white shark diving and going to Table mountain, then again there is always next time! :)
This morning once we got ourselves some good breakfast (the food here by the way is very cheep), we went to the Roben Island, that is where Nelson Mandella was improsoned for 27 years. It was an amazing day. There is so much history to this amazing country and it's people. We had a tour guide who was a prisoner himself and sometimes during his talk, you could hear and sense the pain in his speech, from the hard times he had in the prison. People like him did so much for the country and the one thing that they kept saying was, that no one in their country should go through what they went through. To be able to be there after all those times and the hard memories and to be able to talk about it, is something which I don't think I would be able to do. I admire that very much.
It is the one place which I recommend to anyone to go and see, if they only have one day to spend in cape town, like us. Later today we went to the market at the waterfront and had a look around the shops. We had some coffee and eventually there was time to say goodbye to Matt, Kasey, Toni and Jane. I can't wait to see them sometime soon. They have been a pleasure to travel with.
The weather here has been quite cold. Very much like the UK, grey and cloudy! :) Tomorro we are off to Hong Kong. Having been in Cape town after Botswana and our 35 days of camping has been good. It was a good medium to bring us back in to civilisation and to prepare us for Hong Kong. I am not too keen on civilisation right now! I miss putting up my tent, I miss looking for a bush and I miss the camp fire! And of course the animals. I hope to come back to Africa sometime very soon! :)
The accomodation we stayed at in Cape town was very cheep. It was called the backpackers South Africa and it is 220 Rand for two people per night. It is like a hostel but it is more equiped. At the moment there is about 13 Rand to a pound. On our last night there we got upgraded to a more secluded room at a different apartment, as our room was taken by another group. It worked out better for us, since the new room have it's own bathroom and still the price was the same!
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