The best places on earth are on our doorsteps – that’s what I realized over the past two days.
It’s 1 : 53 PM on day 1329 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to pray, brush my teeth, read Psalm 16, publish my Disability of the Day feature, publish my Kid of the Week feature, feed myself egg with bread for breakfast and promote my Eradicate AIDS campaign – I extended my campaign by 4 days to make up for the days that I was on vacation so now my campaign ends on 18 July 2014.
Yesterday evening we – my family and I – returned from our two day Cape Town vacation and I feel like it’s my duty to tell you where to go if you ever find yourself in Cape Town so I compiled a list of the places to visit in Cape Town. Take a look:
Top 8 Places to Visit in Cape Town
- Robben Island – it’s the island where Nelson Mandela and other anti-apartheid activist were imprisoned during apartheid (we didn’t get to go there this time because it was fully booked but when I went last time I left there knowing how small I was and how great I could be).
- Table Mountain – Table Mountain was voted one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World some time ago and rightly so from the top of the mountain you can see the sea and the city it’s breathtaking (we went there on a public holiday so the cues very long but because I was on a wheelchair they allowed me and a few others who were with me to go through first we had to wait about fifty minutes for our other family members to join us at the top of the mountain and when everyone finally got there I reminded that there were stairs almost everywhere on that mountain (it’s a heritage site so they can’t alter it in any way to make it more accessible) so I could only go around the perimeter of the mountain but that’s okay I still enjoyed it).
- Cape Point – it’s a scenic landform (we didn’t go there this time because it was too far from where our apartment was).
- Canal Walk – the second largest mall in South Africa (that mall has everything you could ever want from designer clothes to electronics while there my sister, my brother and I stopped by at Marcels for some frozen yogurt I had the English Toffee frozen yoghurt it tasted good I could believe it was yogurt and not ice-cream).
- Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden – it’s a garden with all sorts of flowers and trees (I really enjoyed seeing the flowers and trees but what I enjoyed more than that was seeing mothers on the grass tickling their children, families picnicking… stuff that you don’t usually see in this day and age).
- Two Oceans Aquarium – it’s a large aquarium with different kinds of marine life (I loved the starfish, the purple jellyfish and the predators exhibition – a part of the aquarium that’s set up like a gallery so you can sit or stand on the top floor and watch sharks swimming in the huge tank -)
- Grand West Casino – it’s the best casino in Cape Town (my sister and I don’t gamble so we hung out with our brother in the arcade while the others went gambling I felt so bad that we were giving our brother money to play with while just kilometres down the road some people didn’t have proper roofs over their heads but as my sister pointed out it was fun for our brother)
- V & A Waterfront – it’s a mall with a view of the ocean.