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Cape Town The Mother City.

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Being the oldest city in Africa  and sitting between the ocean and a mountain with a National Park as its heart Cape Town is a unique city. If you add its history both recent and older it ticks all the boxes of a destination you would want to experience.  It's streets give a vivid picture of a mixture of people that covers the Rainbow Nations spectrum of Cape Dutch Homesteads, traditional dancers with tribal backgrounds and the smell of spice filled Malay cooking all creating a cocktail of cultures as you walk around. It is a true feast of your senses.  It was a city I had long wanted to visit and it really did not dissapoint.   We flew there from Base Camp via Heathrow on British Airways. It was a bumpy ( We experienced some bad turbulence over Central Africa) on a 12 hour overnight flight from Heathrow before we arrived in the Mother City in the early morning.  After that the adventure began. Arriving Cape Town International Airport  The Airport is s...