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Beach Road, Camps Beach, Cape Town, Green Point, Hop-on-hop-off bus tour, Kirstenbosch Botanic Gardens, Llandudno Beach, South Africa, V&A Waterfront, Victoria & Alfred Waterfront
Another day in Cape Town
I know I have said this in a previous post, but I really love Cape Town! During my stay last year, I spent one day on the hop-on-hop-off bus taking the red line tour and then returning to my hotel for lunch and then hopping back on to take the blue line tour. All included in the cost of the one ticket.
The red line is the city tour. It’s very rare when I take these tours that I ‘hop off’ and didn’t on this occasion, staying on to view Table Mountain, the cable car and stunning views over Cape Town followed by the coloured houses of Bo Kaap. Because I didn’t hop off the bus at Bo Kaap, the next day I asked my driver on the way to the Cape of Good Hope to stop so I could take a few photos. I read in the newspapers that one week after I was at Bo Kaap, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex had visited and had morning tea with one of the locals; no such luck for me.
The blue line tour after lunch was really lovely albeit the tour went past several sights I had already seen on the previous morning tour, but I didn’t mind. We travelled to Beach Road at Green Point, Camps and Llandudno Beach (now there’s a good Welsh name) looking at the stunning ocean views and beautiful homes.
My Aussie friends in Pretoria had told me that I must visit Kirstenbosch Botanic Gardens whilst in Cape Town so on this one occasion I actually did hop off the bus and walked around for about forty-minutes until the next bus arrived. It was worth it; so lovely to see so many people out and about walking around the beautiful gardens, enjoying a picnic or relaxing on the grass.
And once back on the bus it was time to return to the stop near my hotel, hop off and have dinner…another great day out!
Color my world. 🌎🌿
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I loved how colourful the buildings were in your photographs Sue. I love photographs of the sea and surf.
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Wow! Beautiful place beautifully photographed. I love the colorful buildings, and the mountains are superb.
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Thanks so much John.
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Thanks Gary. I loved the buildings. They were a little run down but guess that’s to be expected.
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Too right Gail. Very good.
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Beautiful, colorful buildings! Thank you, Sue for the tour. 🙂
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Most welcome Amy.
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I absolutely love the colourful houses! What a delight!
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Look at those colorful houses! It’s like Kinsale in Ireland but even brighter! Love it!
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Thank you. Going to check out Kinsale on web now.
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They are really lovely Emma. You would capture them very well I am sure.
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Thanks for taking me to beautiful places I could only dream of visiting!
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I’ve never been. Thanks for this tour. There’s plenty of beautiful scenery in this area. Do they provide any commentary on the bus? I would want to ride that cablecar, though.
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Seems as though you had an irrestible added day to your stay!💦
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Oh I so want to visit Cape Town now, it looks lovely. I’ve never been anywhere in Africa so must be due a visit. Obviously someone from Wales probably visited a long time back if they gave a Llandudno Beach! Hope you’re having a good weekend. I’m at home for once and there’s a howling gale blowing but at least it’s not raining!
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Hi Marion. Yes I certainly think someone from Wales popped over to give that name. We had a terrible weekend with Canberra declared a State of Emergency because of the bushfires. I think our wonderful firefighters have it under control now. Please send your rain to us. But glad you are just enjoying a weekend at home. Surprising!!!! Ha ha.
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I did thank you very much.
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Yes commentary using individual ear plugs in a choice of languages.
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Most welcome Joann.
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Hi Sue, an amazing place indeed. I had lost you, due to my blog migration. I am glad to have found you once again ☺️
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Oh how great to hear you are back. And funnily enough I just went into your blog and I was still ‘following’ you but all your latest posts I had not received notification about. I have unfollowed and followed again so hopefully they works.
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Hi Sue, don’t even tell me🤦🏻♀️it’s been a bug after the other since I made the migration and it happens to me as well with blogs that I follow. No notifications so I have to go there. I don’t know how to fix it! I will try to open another ticket with the assistance…
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Your posts coming up now. All sorted my end.
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💪💪😊
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Helps to have a head scarf on the top level of the red bus… Did you manage to see our protea flowers Sue?
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Stunning rainbow houses! I wonder how they choose the colors.
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