Last not least..... our hotel in Capetown, where we stayed 4 nights ....

 

Hotel Southern Sun Waterfront. Excellent location. 
Free shuttlebus runs every 30 minutes and takes 3 minutes to theV&A Waterfront.
Very sleek, contemporary hotel with outstanding service and excellent food. 




 

Where we stayed.... our hotels/lodges during our trip- Part2

Hotel Court King's Beach  - fantastic views !!!


 Hotel Protea Knysna Quays - very relaxing hotel




 

Hotel Pearl in Oudtshoorn

Where we stayed.... our hotels/lodges during our trip Part1

Court Classique Pretoria  




 Forever Resort Blyde River Canyon

Shishangeni Lodge - Camp Shawu - our luxury tented camp

...  we could watch hippos from our sundeck

 ... bathtub and outdoor shower ... feels like "Out of Africa"





Lugogo Sun - Swaziland




Protea Hluhluwe






Southern Sun Elangeni in Durban

Special: Party Seto goes Zulu .... Time to dance

Here is the Zulu version ....

 

Now, watch out...  Peter does it "Tai Chi" Style

 

 

... King Ping... showing the Zulus how it's done... 

                                               and finally ....Stan with the Borneo version


What do you think?....   

                                                      .... quite impressing....our crew !!!

Victoria & Alfred Waterfront

Our last Day today!!!
Leisure day!

We wandered around the Victoria & Alfred WATERFRONT to do some last minute shopping. Ironically the Table Mountain presented itself at its best tody - WITHOUT a single cloud ! Urgh...
Below are some impressions about the Waterfront... What an amazing city!!!
I could not capture any of the many glossy new buildings and especially the thousands of hyper trendy condos all over the city.
What a place to live!!! Another good thing about C'town is that most of the city shuts down at Friday 2pm. Capetonians love their weekends.... Not on the Waterfront though...
Farewell dinner we had at  the famous Five Flies Restaurant downtown Capetown.I will update pictures as soon as I get them sent over by Linda, as my camera died last night due to lack of batteries :(
I will also do a little introduction about the hotels which we stayed in as soon as I am back. 
Stay tuned....

 

Table mountain - no clouds

Table Bay Hotel

we certainly dead not starve during this trip

Still not done ... today's feature is:
My room mate CarMai - Superwoman

CarMai is one of Linda's four daughters. CarMai lives in Toronto and works as a research scientist for
a Pharmaceutical Company. She is very smart and she gets up (at least during this vacation) at 6am in the morning to either go the gym or do a run. While I was still sleeping. She owns the "black belt"  (watch out!) and is good in many other sport disciplines. I really admire you, CarMai! 
CarMai has been to many countries including Tibet and she has lots of exciting stories to tell about her travels. She is always around to help the older folks with her technical expertise as she is a computer wizz. CarMai, is there anything you are not good at? I don't think so. Good job, Linda and Ping!!! Great you could come with us, CarMai !!!!

Cape Penninsula

Early wake-up calls as we are to catch the first cable car up to the mountain as the line ups are insane
if you arrive later. The cable car only runs on less than 100 day a year due to bad weather and clouds, so we
were lucky to get up there, even if the visibility was limited at least we made it up there!!!
Continued on Chapman's Peak Drive, along many beautiful beaches and seaside villages, we made it to
Cape point and finally to Cape of Good Hope. 
On the way we saw Southern Right Wales from the distance. At the beaches you can see shark spotters, who blow horns when sharks are in sight ... Speaking about sharks, I really wanted to do the Great White Shark Dive, but tomorrow is our last day, so this is definitely a reason to return soon again, as I really want to do this !!! Next time for sure.
We had a fantastic lunch at a Clayfish Restaurant on Boulder's Beach. We really do get spoiled here with seafood! We stayed for a while to watch the cute penguins. Beautiful spot, Boulder's Beach.
Our day ended with a dinner at our South African friends Mr and Mrs Africa (yes, this is their real last name!). Sadly the pictures did not turn out ok, but it was a great evening!!!

Yes! Table Mountain cable car is running.... and we sure are on the first ride up!

...  view from cable car

...visibility was not so great

Camps Bay

and Camps Bay street view

Camps Bay again

Fishhoek

Beach at Fishhoek

Cape Point

Party Seto made it to the Cape of Good Hope!!!

lunch stop

Excellent  Seafood again...

Baboon takes lunch break too...

... so beautiful here

 My two lovely friends, Chia and Jessie Ma

Chia comes from a small town in Szechuan, close to the Tibetian border.

He outruns all of us despite his 82 years.

He even did the Taiwan 101 RUN (!) in 2006.

Jessie used to be a nurse in Taiwan  and Chia worked as a chemical engineer.

In Canada they had a restaurant in Scotia Square.

Jessie leaves us early on the 10th Nov as she continues her travel to Taiwan to visit family.

Lucky Jessie, she can escape the cold weather in NS for a few more weeks!!!

Chia is just the happiest guy in our group. Always dancing and singing and he can eat for two!!!

Have a safe trip Jessie and it was great to have you both on this trip :)