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Table Mountain

Well I lied to you again, the cape of good hope is not the southern most tip of Africa which anyone who can look at a map would now right away (again call me dumb). It is on the other hand an increadably beautiful spot especially from the top of table mountain which nests nicly between the cape and cape town itself. The hike up was way harder than I thought it'd be, its not actually a trail but carved out steps that goes on for about 2 hours (kinda like the sentence). Once your at the top you can take a cable car down in about 30 seconds (a lot of people cheat and take it up too, buggers). I've planned out the rest of my time here in Cape Town. Tomorrow I'm going shark cage diving, its about 2 hours from here. They take you a mile or so offshore in a tiny little boat and drop you down 2 meters in a cage and then proceed to dump blood and guts into the water to attract as many Great White sharks as they can, most of which get over 5 meters long. Apparently they bait the cage as well so the sharks hit the cage while your in it. Tom has a water proof camera so I should have some awesome pictures for you after that. The day after that we're booked for a wine tour of the cape area. There's some really good wineries around here and apparently its a bit of a boozefest. And lastly on our last day before we leave for the Safari, we're going to Robben Island which is the prison island that Nelson Mendela and his collegues were kept for all those years of the Aparthied Regime. Its supposed to be pretty awesome you get to see his cell and stuff and the tours are given by ex-inmates so that should be good. Anyway, still no pictures but I'll get em too you before I leave for Namibia I promise. Miss everyone and I'll see you in May.

Posted by gbrockmag 9:46 AM Archived in South Africa

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AAAAAAAH SHARKS BE CAREFUL

19.02.2007 by ellenc

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