The city is absolutely amazing, from beautiful mountains to pristine beaches ( equipped with abnormally large seaweed). My group and I took a driving tour through District 6, which, if some of you do not know, was an area that was very diverse and over 60,000 inhabitants were forcibly removed during the apartheid regime in the 70's. We passed a church that had refused to sell to the government during the regime, so they just built around it, and built 24/7, interrupting services with loud construction, in hopes that the church would relent, but they did not.
Inspiring to say the least.
Driving up signal hill offered breathtaking views of the city, and I even got emotional.
We also saw Cape Town's city hall, and the very steps where Nelson Mandela gave his first ever speech, also emotional.
I have not traveled to many cities around the world, but Cape Town has to be one of the most beautiful, and so rich and diverse in its people and cultures.
You can walk down the street and sample African cuisine, and go a few more steps and eat Italian. You can drive through an area infested with drug dealers and broken down buildings, and then go a couple more miles and be along the coast with multi million dollar homes and Range Rovers. It's either extreme poverty, or extreme wealth. There is no middle.
Tomorrow we take a tour of the townships, but for now enjoy some photos I snapped on my iPhone.
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Signal Hill aka "Lion's Butt"
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