Gday mate! That's South Afrikaan for Hello! Actually, its Australian, but I wanted to see how gullible you were. Anywhoo, so Justin and I arrived in Cape Town early on Monday morning, after a short 8 hour layover in London. After failing to find each other in Heathrow's terminal 3, I ventured off to discover London, where I drank a brew with the locals and played with giant lion statues in Trafalgar square.
Our Hostel in Cape Town (Ashanti Lodge) is located with a view of Table Mountain in the background (then again everything in cape town has Table Mountain in the background).
On Aug. 4, Justin and I went off to the Harbor, which was pretty sweet. After being swindled away from a pancake joint into an Indian restaurant, we set sail for Robben Island, home of Nelson Mandela for 20 years. Unfortunately, it was formerly a jail for political prisoners. A former political prisoner gave us a tour. I wish I could have enjoyed it more, but I was about to pass out after getting 4 hours of sleep over the past 2 days. Maybe Justin can tell you more about it. I do remember that the island was covered with Rabbits who looked just like Loki!!! There were literally thousands of them (along with penguins).
Today, Rachel joined us for an exciting stroll around cape town. Justin had eggs, bacon, and I think toast for breakfast. We all visited a couple of museums around town, the South African Museum (natural history), and the National Gallery (art). Justin enjoyed the National Gallery more, Rachel and I enjoyed the South African Museum more...a theme of affinity for animals that would continue throughout the day, when Rachel and I were enamored (and Justin for a little less time) with some pretty awesome fur seals that hopped up on the docks to play with us. Ok, they just hopped up on the decks, which we watched from above.
We also walked around some botanical gardens, which were just lovely. For dinner, we ate at a very nice African place, where I had three species of antelope. They bring out three antelope on a skewer, let you take a bit of each, and then serve you your favorite, sans the hoofs, etc.
Tomorrow we're off to climb Table Mountain (you can google it to find out more). Its pretty sweet, about 3000 feet high, and has a flat top, where you can overlook all of Cape Town.
Hope everyone is doing wonderfully in the states.
-Andrew
P.S. For all of you brothers of mine out there emailing me about the newly found 125,000 eastern lowland gorillas, that's glorious, but we're visiting mountain gorillas, and we could really use 125,000 more of them, cause there's only about 600 left in the world. See what you can do. Thanks.
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3 comments:
thanks for the update!
glad you all made it there;
some of us had our doubts;
did the antelope taste like chicken?
Maybe you should go to the congo with a cargo plane and transport a few thousand of the gorillas to the mountains. Problem solved!
Hi Andrew! I liked hearing about your encounters with the seals and rabbits. Those would have been my favorites so far, too. If you find any of those snow globes in South Africa – you know, those little snow shakies I collect - see if you can get one for me. I know I won't see it for 7 more weeks, but I've never been to South Africa and doubt I'll get there any time soon. :-)
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