Leaving Cape Town

Sitting in the Lounge in Johannesburg on my way back to Stockholm again sipping my last holiday GT.

What a positive surprise this country and town was! First experience the Political heart of Johannesburg with the history of apartheid and then the complex history of South Africa, however for the fun part of South Africa is Cape Town, Jo-Burg as great shops, Restaurants and Jazz music but also very much the Commercial heart and soul of SA not the adrenaline fun side which I came for.

Cape Town is the place to get the ultimate holiday for an adrenaline person like me, they have great skydiving even if I passed it this weekend, diving, shopping, trekking, all kind of sports and activities and amazing nature.

this is the Water Front

It’s cheaper than Europe and much cheaper than Stockholm (apart from skydiving where Sweden is still one of the cheapest place to skydive)

The party life was great with lots of bars, discos, and live music, mostly on Longstreet but also at Camp Bay

Negative bits were the beggars, I always get annoyed with beggars, and tourists give them money and therefore it’s very beneficial for them, so they are everywhere, and they can spot foreigners from a distant.

The ocean is not warm, not even in peek summer, I hate cold water… Bring a wetsuit!

Taxi through town 10 min was 6€
Pooch dinner with first class meat and wine was 30€
Normal lunch 4,2€
Coffee was 1,2€
Sharkdiving was 53€ in the Aquarium tank
Sharkdiving in a cage in the ocean full day was 140€
Hotels its good for all kinds of wallets, we had a five star designers hotel Villa Zest with only 7 rooms and fantastic service and cost 135€ including breakfast per night.

A weekend was far to short in Cape, I have to go back

Diving with sharks at last

Oh dear, I’m still so full of adrenaline.

I manage to get to dive in Two Oceans Aquarium by the Water Front in Cape

Town. They have a 2 million liter seawater tank full of Sharks, mantas, fishes and turtles

I met with the dive master at 10.45 for short instructions and to put on the diving gears. You have to have an open water diving license to be able to dive there. I was very nervous and of course my diving gear was broken, first the regulator, then the o-ring and the buckle to my weight belt broke and almost fell of on a turtle. After a lot of frustration I finally sat on the bottom of the tank and tried to relax with a shark bumping my head with her tailfin, relax… relax… breath slowly, I knew it was a she, because the dive master pointed her out before we went in and she had a big scratch on the side

– Don’t get close to her, she will not bite, she has been fed, but she’s a bit bitchy, he said. I notice…! That bump got my mask full of saltwater.

With the GoPro camera on my hand wrist I got some nice films, not brilliant since its my first time using it under water. I was filled with a humble love for the beautiful creatures swimming around me. I big joy apart from diving in this amazing aquarium was to see my husband and more than a hundred visitors behind the glass waving at me, I got so exited that I didn’t see a huge manta approaching me, it took me by surprise that I lost control and fell on my back onto the ground, I started to laugh my ass off, it was so funny and once again I got my mask filled with saltwater

I can go on and on about this 30 minutes dive, every little detail was absolutely amazing
- all of you that have dive license please go there, it’s a memory for life! Sweetling David and all sharkscared people, this is a fantastic way to learn to get to know them, we are on the bottom list their menu

I left the aquarium 13.30 with a huge smile, a shark tooth I picked from the bottom of the tank, and ordered fish for lunch, how bizarre!!!!………

Finally in Cape Town!

WOW what a place, they got everything!

Adventure, beauty, nature, good food, a wild mix of people and cultures, buzz and chill.

Yesterday I left Johannesburg after a very emotional journey though the history of the blacks of South Africa and their hard struggle. Coming from a safe and secure country of Sweden, its quite heartbreaking to visit Soweto, even if it’s been modernized, it’s still a disaster in some areas.

Visiting three museums of apartheid, a few tears fell but I feel so hopeful for a more just future.

Today we had a nice long walk and bus ride through the city of Cape Town and up to the top of Table Mountain, its 1 km, aprox 3 Eifel towers high and a stunning view!

Not to hard to trek compare to my Kilimanjaro trek… even for a sick husband.

When finally got to the sea level again we decided to visit

Campus Bay, really trendy surfers beach with Celeb wine bars and restaurants, the houses and apartments

surrounding the beach were to die for

The Shark-dive tour tomorrow got cancelled due to rough seas, but… I managed to find a last minute solution which is really cool…

More tomorrow