Day 12, Windhoek, Namibia to Cape Town, South Africa

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We had an early morning pickup from our hotel around 7:15 to take us to the airport for our flight to Cape Town. The city was just waking up, but being a Saturday, it was not too busy on the highway out of town towards the airport.

The sun is just rising as we make our way to the airport.
We made it through to the lounge and are waiting in great anticipation of our next adventure!
Dan on his way to boar our small aircraft, an Airlink flight

We arrived in South Africa in just 2 hours flying time. Very comfortable.

Our view from the aircraft as we were in final approach to the Cape Town Airport

When we got our luggage and cleared customs, our driver Bat was there to meet us. Bat drove us to our hotel, and en route showed us the private hospital where Christiaan Barnard performed the world’s first heart transplant. He then proceeded to tell us about the political situation in the country… very interesting indeed. He wasn’t a fan of the US accepting SA refugees… felt they would be better off at home. Not the first person from here that we have heard say that!

We soon arrived at our hotel after Bat took us through the Camps Bay Area with lots of restaurants and things to do just walking distance from our hotel (In the daylight of course). It was clearly a very affluent neighborhood.

We were delighted with our lodgings for the next 3 nights at Ocean View House. Lots of services and amenities, but still small and had a cozy feel.

Our room and view onto our private patio
This multilevel place built not the side of a mountain has 2 pool areas and extensive gardens. Our room is the lower floor, second from the left, just behind the small palm tree.

Once we had a chance to get unpacked and rest a little ( there may have been a dram of whisky involved), we decided to go for a walk back to Camps Bay to explore our neighbourhood. The scenery was stunning.

View waking into the Bay Area from our hotel
View from the beach looking back on Table Mountain
Lots of artists on the beach, but this one fascinated me. He works with beach sand and water creating these wonderful masterpieces!
Mama and baby girafffe created by Trevor. He said it takes about a day and a half to create these and if he’s lucky ad the wind does not blow, nor vandals try to kick it down, it will last quite a while. Certainly the fanciest sand castle I have ever seen!

Once we walked the entire beach we headed back to our room to get ready for dinner. The hotel had booked us into a restaurant called Paranga, which served seafood.

View of the rocky shoreline heading back east from the Camps Bay

We were told it was safe to walk to the restaurant even though it was just past sunset, but we would need to get a cab or uber back home to the hotel.

The sunset on our way to our dinner. Just magnificent!
May main course which was teriyaki salmon trout served on sticky rice with truffle infused bok choy. ( you can see a little avocado that Dan shared with me as well). Superb! Desert was a molten lava cake with homemade salted caramel ice cream served on a drift of graham crumbs..Divine! and this is without mentioning the extraordinary SA Chemin Blanc wine we had with dinner.

We should have jogged home after that meal, oh well, tomorrow ids a big day of discovery and hiking with our guide Debbie. We’ll be off to see the penguins! Until tomorrow, stay safe. Chat with you then!

Categories: An African Adventure

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