April Break - South Africa
We arrived in Cape Town, South Africa, at night, March 31st. It's kind of fun to walk out of the airport and find someone holding a sign with your name on it. It's also expensive! Cape Town is a beautiful city and one day is no where near enough time to explore it. Our one day was also a public holiday so we saw lots of families and quite a few places that were closed. The morning clouds covered the iconic mountains in town so we rode a shuttle to the waterfront rather than riding the cable car to the top of Table mountain. Cape Town doesn't feel like the other major African cities we have visited. The infrastructure of apartheid persists with whites living in the cities and blacks living in the former townships surrounding the cities. The economic divide is very real. This is Lion's Head mountain and the small, colored splotches are paragliders. To the left of Lion's Head is Signal Hill, also known as Lion's Rump. When you're farther away, together they