Sunrise. Fail.
We (approximately 300 international students) piled onto buses that took us around Cape Town, then south down the peninsula, ending at the Cape of Good Hope. During our drive through Cape Town, we saw five-start hotels, the tourist-y waterfront area, and a Ferrari dealership, among other rich-people attractions.
Cape Town in the morning
A traditional African neighborhood
World Cup stadium being built!
Building where Nelson Mandela made his first speech after his release
Our first stop was between Bantry Bay and Camps Bay - two of the ritziest residential areas on the peninsula.
Camps Bay
Camps Bay
From there, we returned to the buses and headed to a wild penguin reserve. They were so cute, I definitely contemplated stashing one in my purse (theyre only about a foot and a half high!).
Hubby and his wife
African Penguins!
Byeee
From here, we went to lunch at a South African township called Ocean View. In the 1960s, a mostly black town called Simon's Town was re-zoned as a "whites only" area under apartheid, and all the blacks there were forcibly relocated to a makeshift shanty town in what is now Ocean View. Today, there are over 35,000 residents of Ocean View, a town rampant with drug abuse, gangs, and violent crime.
Ocean View
During our lunch break, we saw performances by a community after-school arts program. They were amazing! Here's part of their Single Ladies performance :)
From there, we drove all the way to the south-westernmost point of the African continent, the Cape of Good Hope. It's a national park, with no developments for 30 square miles. We hiked across the cape, and then down the cliffs to stand by the super awesome tourist sign at the bottom.
Cape of Good Hope
BABOON! Apparently they're extremely dangerous and try to steal food from peoples' hands. They have left tourists mangled when the person tried to fight back against them. Feeding baboons is illegal, and can land you in jail with a criminal record.
Cape of Good Hope
Long way down!
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