Cape Town —Finishing Government Ave. and Beginning Our City Sightseeing Tour

So, you may recall that our first full day in Cape Town involved a wine tour to the Paarl and Stellenbosch regions. Our next day we headed out on foot, first to explore the area around our hotel, then over to Government Avenue and the Company’s Garden. I’ll finish up with this 9 March 2025 foot tour, then show you our first day adventure using our two-day City Sightseeing bus tickets that we started using on 10 March.

Heading back on foot this bright, sunny Sunday afternoon, I managed to snag a few images, such as this silhouetted statue with South Africa’s old Parliament building in the background:

Prominent statue on a prominent pedestal in a prominent location with a prominent backdrop. Must be someone prominent, one would assume. And indeed it is. That is a memorial to…

… Sir George Grey, KCB. If you find yourself looking in front of the Parliament building for the Statue of Sir George, then I misled you with that photograph. The road behind the iron fencing and before the Parliament building is Government Avenue. That places the statue with the Company’s Garden, so you must seek it there. Let’s continue our trek back to St. George’s Mall and our hotel with this view of Cape Town’s famous Table Mountain:

I’ll be showing you a lot of Table Mountain over the next several weeks, so I’ll just gloss over that for now and show you another view of the Anglican St. George’s Cathedral:

That concludes our foot tour on 9 March. Now it’s time to head over to Long Street near Shortmarket to pick up our reserved two-day pass for City Sightseeing’s Hop On/Hop Off buses. You may remember that one of our favorite things to do while traveling is to get a multi-day pass aboard the local hop-on/hop-off. City Sightseeing is a great company for this; we’ve used them in many locations. City Sightseeing runs two Cape Town routes — Red and Blue — and you can alternate between the two as much as you desire. This is also the company we used for our Paarl-Franschhoek-Stellenbosch wine tour. Here is the City Sightseeing mapr for their red and blue routes:

We began with the Blue Route, which took us past Devil’s Peak and the Rhodes Memorial. This route also affords you a great view of Table Mountain in the distance. Here is today’s photo gallery/slide show to whet your appetite:

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