My four days in Cape Town were just enough time to do the four events I had hoped to see/do.
The first day I hiked up Table Mountain…which I wrote about here. The second day I took an organized tour of the peninsula of Cape Town, which you can read about here and here. The third day I took the Red Bus City Tour. If I remember correctly, it was about $20, but you could hop on and off at different sites around the City. Before boarding, I took a walk around the Waterfront area of Cape Town.
I only got off the bus once…at St. George’s Cathedral. I love to take photos of churches and go inside. This Cathedral is South Africa’s oldest.
There was a small park nearby and I took a few more photos before walking to the next stop. I love to…
Surfing the user-friendly waves of El Salvador
El Salvador has suffered from a civil war, natural disasters and continuing violent crime, but foreign surfers are lured by its world-class and forgiving waves… Seattle Times
World’s top revolving restaurants
Over the past 50 years, revolving restaurants have opened in more than 50 countries on six continents… CNN
Top 25 Cruise Lines
River cruises have never been so popular, but readers still love ocean-bound excursions too… Conde Nast Traveler
Forbes names new 5-star hotels, eateries for 2012
Forbes Travel Guide has crowned its new five-star winners in the hospitality industry, bringing the total to 57 hotels, 25 restaurants, and 30 spas… USA Today
A cultural guide to Honfleur
An essential cultural guide to a picturesque town immortalized by the Impressionists… Telegraph (London)
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The Cetacea hold an important lesson for us. The lesson is not about whales and dolphins, but about ourselves. There is at least moderately convincing evidence that there is another class of intelligent beings on Earth beside ourselves. They have behaved benignly and in many cases affectionately towards us. We have systematically slaughtered them. Little reverence for life is evident in the whaling industry – underscoring a deep human failing…In warfare, man against man, it is common for each side to dehumanize the other so that there will be none of the natural misgivings that a human being has at slaughtering another…” ~Carl Sagan, The Cosmic Connection, New York: Doubleday, 1973 (quoted in “Whale Nation” by Heathcote Williams, Jonathan Cape ltd,1988)
Although there are many amazing places to go whale watching, such as Hawaii, New Zealand, and Spain, I have just listed a few below.
Alaska
Azores – Portugal
California
Iceland
Massachusetts
Mexico
Norway
Scotland
South Africa
Vancouver Island
“The brain size of whales is much larger than that of humans. Their cerebral cortexes are as convoluted. They are at least as social as humans. Anthropologists believe that the development of human intelligence has been critically dependent upon these three factors: brain volume, brain convolutions, and social interactions among individuals. Here we find a class of animals where the three conditions leading to human intelligence may be exceeded, and in some cases greatly exceeded. ~Carl Sagan, The Cosmic Connection, New York: Doubleday, 1973 (quoted in “Whale Nation” by Heathcote Williams, Jonathan Cape ltd,1988)
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My four days in Cape Town were just enough time to do the four events I had hoped to see/do.
Anje Vela
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