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Day 5 (3rd day in Cape Town) - Flowers and Animals

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Updated: Nov 17, 2019

Our third full day in Cape Town took us on another Hop On Hop Off journey around the city, the blue line, which ventures a bit further out of town. Up bright and early, we arrived early in order to make it to the first bus of the day.


Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens was our first destination. According to the guide, it is the 6th best botanical garden in the world. Not quite sure who made this list, or what the parameters are, but sure, 6th in the world. The land occupied by the gardens used to belong to Cecil Rhodes, the former Prime Minister of the Cape, as well as the founder of Rhodesia, which has since become Zimbabwe and Zambia.

Kirstenbosch is enormous, spanning over 1,250 acres, with thousands of various flowers and plants, mainly indigenous to the region.

We had a lovely walk through the gardens with the cloud covered mountain range providing a heavenly setting.

The next stop on the blue line was the World of Wild Birds and Monkey Park. There isn't much to say about it that pictures can't show. Amazing.



We plans to go on a boat ride to see some seals, but time would not permit. Instead we had terrible fish and chips on the water.

South Africa is known for its mining industry, specifically diamonds (Nadine's birthstone), gold, and tanzanite (Ben's birthstone). A tour of the facilities, Cape Town Diamond Museum, to a diamond jeweler was an hour well spent. As it turned out, the owner was an Israeli transplant. Who would have guessed? Unfortunately we were not allowed to take pictures, nor were we given any samples.


The day ended with a beautiful sunset cruise around Cape Town.

**We forgot to mention that the same day we arrived to Johannesburg, the longtime president of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, died within hours of our arrival. He was in Singapore at the time, therefore his funeral will not be until this Sunday, where he will receive a hero's memorial in Zimbabwe. Mugabe was a controversial figure, thought of as both tyrant and revolutionary, liberator and racist dictator. More to come on him this weekend**


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