Cape Town The Mother City.
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...