Amazing Capetown!!

Ok, so judging Rio as my new favorite global city only lasted a few weeks..........until our arrival in Capetown!  The port reminds me quite a bit of San Francisco, beautiful port-side shops, bars, and restaurants, but the surrounding mountains and peaks in Capetown's port are far more impressive.  The awesome sight of Table Mountain and Lion's Head encircled most of the time by swirls of clouds is a site like no other.  I really liked this place.  It was cool and comfortable, quiet, yet bustling with activity.

The hop-on, hop-off bus tour takes you to an entirely different part of the city on the other side of those hilly peaks to a variety of small beach-side villages with their own set of unique spots to relax and take it all in.   I didn't want to leave!  I only had two days here since my safari to Kruger National Park took up three of our five days here in port.  Everyone loved this place and vowed to return. 

Besides getting to buy some cool African arts and crafts for my house (and a few Christmas gifts for those back home) there, I got to visit my favorite fast-food restaurant of all time, a South African chain called "Nando's Chicken".  It serves Portugese Peri-Peri flame grilled chicken like no other!  I had first encountered Nando's during my stays in London in the mid-1990s, and always make a pilgrimage there on my visits to Canada as well.  I can only hope they will one day come to America.  At least I was able to buy some of their famous hot sauce at the place where I had the best lunch of my voyage!!  Nando's rocks!