The first full day we had in Cape Town, we woke up relatively early and started exploring the city bowl area. It was a bit chilly in the morning, but it quickly warmed up during the day.
We wandered around the city and made our way to the Gold Museum. It was a small, neat museum, with a pretty cheap entrance fee. The first exhibit in the museum was amazing. It was 3 walls full of incredibly detailed time lines of every major civilization (almost) the dawn of man, and their important accomplishments, trades, etc.
While that was my favorite room of the whole museum, the rest didn't disappoint either. Most of the remaining rooms (of maybe 4, 5) were decked out with old gold relics and old tools and clothing adorned with gold. It was pretty nice, with the final small room being completely dedicated to a small golden lion with a huuuge smiley face on it. It was several hundred years old, but still hilarious looking. Unnecessary humor, sure, but I'm just that ridiculous.
We walked to the waterfront and grabbed lunch at a Portuguese restaurant called Tasca. I grabbed the cheapest thing on the menu (a chicken burger), which was incredibly delicious, tossed with this red sauce, lettuce, tomato, and had french fries on the side. I had a draft of their house brew, and Kaitlin had a Castle.
While walking past the waterfront to Green Point (a very pretty gay district, from what I hear), we passed by the new World Cup stadium (that thing was huge!) and high-tailed it to Camps Bay, which was, without a doubt, the most gorgeous area I've been to, and one of the most gorgeous beaches in the world.
After climbing some very huge rocks and exploring the beach front, we hit a small restaurant, grabbed some small appetizers, and split a bottle of a blush wine. It was tasty and cheap, but if I was alone i would never get it. Certainly not for people who strictly enjoy reds (i wanted a full red, not a blush, but can't complain when alcohol is presented!), but it was still great. We split a small garlic bread, which ended up being a flat pizza bread with light olive oil and grilled onions with very fine garlic on the side to put on if we chose to. We also split some great bruschetto (spelling, clearly). The restaurant is apparently a world chain, Primi Piatti, with a location in Washington DC (i believe), but I've never been to it before.
We head back to our hostel, chilled, relaxed, and headed out for the night. We hit up a bar across the street with a few live guitarists playing, and relatively cheap drinks. After 3 drinks or so we went to another bar called Mama Africa, where a group was playing traditional African music, and we listened and danced for about an hour before heading home for sleep.
The more I explore this city, the more I wish I had more time here, its simply amazing.
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