Cape Town 31 December 2011 – 9 January 2012 Pt. 1
Posted by oeifendy on 31 December 2011
Arrived at 9:30pm took shuttle bus (53 Rands) to the city center then took taxi to The Backpacker hostel. Washed up and went to Long Street to join the crowd for the count down.
New Year's Eve, Long Street, Cape Town, South Africa
1st Jan was very quiet and I chose to stay in the hostel doing nothing … sleeping … In the evening too hungry went out to have sushi then went to walk around the city center.
2nd Jan joined a day tour to Cape Point. Picked up at 8am to start the tour. First stop was Hout Bay. Paid 65 Rands to have 40mins boat trip to see Cape Fur Seals.
Cape Fur Seals, Hout Bay, South Africa
Next stop was Cape of Good Hope the south-western point of Africa. After 10mins drive we arrived at Cape Point. We had to walk up for 25mins to reach the lighthouse to have a great view of the peninsula.
Cape of Good Hope, South Africa
Cape Point Lighthouse, South Africa
Moved on the the last point of interest which was a place called Boulders to see African Penguins.
African Penguins, Boulders Beach, South Africa
3rd Jan took sightseeing bus cost me 410 Rands that included Table Mountain Cableway round trip ticket and also entrance ticket to Two Oceans Aquarium at Victoria & Alfred Waterfront. My first stop was Table Mountain! Queued for 30mins at the entrance. At the top not so good. Very cloudy and couldn’t see anything. After 30mins the cloud seemed to move away and that’s the chance to see Cape Town from the top. Walked walked at the top for almost 3hrs. Came down and continued by taking sightseeing bus to the next stop Camps Bay. Had a nice mussels as lunch at one of the restaurants there.
Table Mountain, Cape Town, South Africa
Table Mountain, Cape Town, South Africa
Camps Bay, South Africa
Next stop was Waterfront to see see look look the fish at Two Oceans Aquarium then walked ard the area. From Waterfront took the bus again to go back hostel rest …
4th Jan picked up at 8:20am headed toward Gansbaai for Shark Cage Diving. It took about 2hrs 30mins to reach Gansbaai from Cape Town. Arrived took lunch then after short briefing we boarded the boat. After 20mins we arrived at where we would do the dive. Wore wetsuit, booties and mask then good to dive. Since there were 36 of us, we had to take turn and each time the cage can only take 6ppl. Unfortunately it was no longer sharks season but we still managed to see around 5 great white sharks. The water was very very choppy causing a lot of people to get seasick. I was one of them and I vomited 4 times … causing the entire trip not so pleasant. At least I got to see the sharks twice when it was my turn to dive in the cage.
