We are planning Camp Ubuntu today, as well as getting to know Riviersonderend. We mentioned that we went to the “downtown” area and Geno, our host, about choked. “We don’t call it ‘downtown’ here. It’s not big enough. Say you went to town and we think you went somewhere else. … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: September 2012
We made it to Riviersonderend!
Safe and sound. We saw beautiful views along the way. First off, before we left Cape Town, we stopped off at Table Mountain. The day was clear and beautiful and there were so many people lined up to take the cable car up to the top! We decided not to … Continue reading
Really exhausted. Here’s a beautiful picture.
This is the view from Lookout Hill in Khayelitsha in Cape Town. Khayelitsha is one of the areas we toured a couple of days ago. According to Wikipedia, the population density is about 19,500 people per square mile. Staggering. I must head to bed now, but will post more again … Continue reading
Townships
Yesterday was another day touring. We went to Gugulethu, which is a township (townships, under Apartheid, were where the black and colored population lived, if they had jobs inside the city, otherwise they were not allowed to live in the cities at all). We went with Mzwai, who showed us … Continue reading