Capetown's waterfront - one of the most beautiful inbetween Europe and the East Indies

After church on Sunday morning, it was time to head up to the famous Table Mountains. Unfortunately, after a family from church drove me all the way up there, we decided it was too cloudy, and instead I headed down to the almost-as-famous Capetown waterfront ...

... which is a pretty amazing place. Along with Darling Harbour (and the beaches in Rio of course), it is a very impressive harbour setting - with the shops and boats spread out with magnificent views of the table mountains in the background ...



It was also Father's day (strangely?!), which meant there were free hats being given out (I felt right at home), as well as random marching bands, such as this crew ...



Capetown waterfront has a HUGE shopping complex right on the water. Which would've been great if I was in the mood for shopping. Instead, I was in the mood for taking photos of shopping centres ...



... and shipping. I took a ferry to Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela spent 17 of his 27 years as a political prisoner, for a tour that featured a drive around the island, and a look inside all of the cells, guided by an ex-prisoner! It was pretty good. In fact, here is the walk from the prison cells back to the island port, otherwise known (officially? i'm not sure) as "the Long Walk to Freedom" ...



By the time we got back, it was evening ...



And time for a long walk back to my backpacker hostel!



OK, I lied ... I took a taxi =)

blessings
john