Politics wines and mountains

One of the things that is a must do whilst in cape town is table mountain, so we did it, straight up Pleterklip Gorge a steep by well marked trail which takes roughly 2 hours of course I could of ran up it much quicker but. Hung around on the top for a while and was befriended by these bizarre looking rodent like creatures which are apparently distant cousins of the elephant.

the afternoon was spent casually ambling around District 6 one of the areas in which there was forced clearings in cape town during apartheid, went to quite an interesting museum but not as informative as the apartheid museum in Jo'burg. Far more impressive still was the trip we made to Roben Island where you get a tour around the prison by an ex political prison, ours was a guy who used to work in the intelligence sector of the ANC gathering information and finding safe houses for the gun runners. Quite a moving experience.

have I already told you about the penguins , I think I have if not they where really cool.

time had came for use to drop our hire car back to the depot which is just as well as the rest of the day was spent sampling life in the vineyards of Stellenboch, I can now personally recommend simonsig wines and can add wine tasting to my very long list of talents, al be it at the cost of mornings.