South Africa Day 3 and 4

On Friday we slept in then spent the day doing a lot of shopping. We went to the mall then to a town called Strand, which means beach, and went to a pottery shop called fenix. I got some great Christmas stuff. On our way home we drove through a town ship. There are a wide range of townships. Some look like older somewhat rundown towns, they have regular houses with running water and plumbing and electricity. Some are literal shacks made out of whatever scraps the people could find. Some of these shack town have water and electricity and some do not. Then there are the small government houses that have been built to replace shacks in some areas.

Here are some examples of shack townships. Many of the people who live in these shacks have come to So. Africa from other countries to find work and set up a shack where ever they could. Some of the people are afraid to leave their shacks to go to work because when they get home someone else may have moved into their shack. It really is so sad but so interesting. There are hundreds of thousands of these shacks throughout the area.

Saturday we spent laying on this beach, looking out on Table Mountain. It was a beautiful day and we got very sun burnt.

On windy days, which is most days there are dozens of kite surfers on the water it is so fun to watch and the kites are so pretty.This was our last night in Cape Town and there was a gorgeous sunset. The is the view from our balcony. The island in the distance is Robben Island, where Neilson Mandela was imprisoned for 27 years.