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It’s almost time for the blog to move on from Cape Town as we prepare to head up the west coast of Africa for further adventures. That means I’ll be finishing up Cape Town this week with less talk and more photographs, most of which were taken from our Citiy Sightseeing excursions. And you may recall that last week I told you the Canal District was ritzy. Above is an example showing two Ferraris, including the original Magnum P.I. car, a 308 GTS, in the appropriate color, of course.

The following pictures include shots from our wine tour, Canal District tour, Table Mountain, and Table Mountain Aerial Cableway, and the upscale Cape Town suburb of Clifton. Wednesday’s article will continue the theme, but this week will feature a delicious Fun Food Friday featuring two restraunts we discovered.

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Still showing you City Sightseeing’s Blue Route, which initially heads south along the mountains before turning west toward Hout Bay (stop 24). After driving through Hout Bay and passing by the Hout Bay Harbour Marina, the Blue Route turns north where, at Camps Bay (stop 8), it merges with the Red Route. To help you get oriented, I repeat the route map below. All our jaunts began at stop 5, which was nearest to our hotel. Stop 5 is on Long Street near Shortmarket Street.

A photo gallery/slide show of Hout Bay and Hout Bay Harbour Marina:

From Camps Bay northward you’ll pass between pounding surf and beaches to your left and tall mountains to your right, as seen in this photo gallery/slide show:

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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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