Cape Town: Love at first visit
There is a funny word some Cape Tonians always say:”Visitors shouldn't spend more than three days in Cape Town’s streets if he/she wants to leave one day”.
You won't understand this word till you visit this special city, the third biggest city in Africa in population, and its capital is Western Cape.
When you see the most famous mountain which looks like a flat table, embraces the beautiful peaceful city, always appears in most backgrounds of photos of nature and white sand under your feet, you can understand why these people warn visitors of falling in love with this beauty and staying in it forever, and that what exactly happened to me and my family.
Cape Town has an extraordinary geographic location among many nature coastal sceneries, cuddled by the Table mountain that's 1000 above sea level which had chosen as one of 7 nature wonders in 2012.
Here is the last point in Africa, the cape of good hope, the capital of calm and beauty, the meeting place of Indian and Atlantic oceans. It is one of the biggest ethnic and cultural diversite cities in the world that you can rarely find alike. People of Cape town characterized by tolerance and they are very friendly, not just people are diverse and harmonious but also the nature, the whether, tourist attractions and the landmarks.
Bo Kaap the district famous for its diverse nice colours, that lies there in the foothills of the Table mountain and overlooks the beautiful city. It is inhabited by Malay Islamic minority that their residence identified during apartheid, today Bo Kaap mixed with luxury upmarket buildings.
Kirstenbosch, here you find a little paradise, thousands of rare plants and unique beautiful trees. You'll be attracted by the diversity of flowers' colours just like the diversity of people in colours, languages and cultures, all people understand one language, the language of mutual respect and co-existence.
It does not matter whether you were white, black, Malay, Indian or even Arabic visitor, rights reserved by the constitution and the brand registered in the name of Nelson Mandela, his prison is only about 6 Kilometers away from Cape Town.
For as long as I wanted to see Nelson Mandela, especially after entrenched in my mind a show of his prison cell. When I was about 8 years old I watched a documentary in BBC about him with my parents. Since that time I could clearly realize South Africa is a country not a direction in the African continent. I also understood why I hear its name in my parents talks, so Robin Island was the first place I visited after I arrived to South Africa in my first holiday in South Africa 2013. The most thing effected me is that most of tour guides were prisoners in Robin Island and my group’s guide had been detained in the same period of arresting Nelson Mandela and knows him personally, after long time with history and Nelson Mandela, I turned back to the most famous port in the city and water front, the most enjoyable thing was music of migrants especially the music Irish music. There is an outdoor music theater sends beautiful everywhere around, many tourists sit there in spiral circle around the place and enjoy the scenery of the Table mountain its sides were moistened of the gulf water. In Cape Town you’ll be amazed by magnificence of hotels and their friendly staffs especially in Water front, also shopping places there, its very high quality and cheap to Europe the Middle East. Cape Town in my eyes as a tourist isn't the same as a resident, now I don’t just love it but understand it also. If its about Cape Town, word will never end about beauty, coexistence, history, diversity and love.