FUN-travel: Ushuaia, Argentina to Cape Town, South Africa – Silversea Cruise – Day 21 – Cape Town
March 25, 2013 by Susan Clarke
The ABC’s of Africa
A = Awesome
B = Bummer
C = Celebration
Trip Day 52 – Friday, March 22 – Arrive Cape Town, South Africa – sunny, windy – high low 70’s
Clock Tower at V & A
- BB – (big bummer) – 6:50 – wake up over PA for sunrise
- A – I was sleeping so good
- 7:50 – get up cause I can’t fall back to sleep
- A – I see land@ – we’re almost to Cape Town
- B – need to bunker (fill up the gas tank on boat takes 3 hrs) & not the same place we moor
- 9:15 – clear customs in theatre
- A – 1:00 – lunch of chips, salsa, guacamole, beans, jalpenos – YEAH! (not the same as in San Diego but works)
- 1:00 – shuttle bus takes us from bunker pier to Victoria & Alfred (V & A) Waterfront
- C – on land!
- A – lots of walking, shopping, music & fresh air
- 3:00 – iced coffee break
- 5:00 – Pinotage – happy hour at V & A w/shipmates Kathy & Larry – first time tasting Pinotage & kingclip fish for them
- 6:30 – shuttle back to ship for more happy hour
- 8:00 – dinner & bed!
FF – (FUN-fact) – Cape Town is Africa’s most popular tourist destination. It is famous for its harbor and Table Mountain which was named one of the New 7 Wonders of Nature in 2007.
