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We did not want to Africa ended, for us it is only the day before began when a few hours on the New Year we arrived in Cape Town. Hardly once in the hotel at the foot of Table Mountain, we went to the waterfront, which came from the real rumble. From afar, it seemed that this sound of the ocean. But upon closer inspection, the sound source was a huge crowd fills the space around the Ferris wheel in anticipation vegetarian bbq of the fireworks.
Before the New Year in South African (plus two hours Moscow) was less than half an hour. This time my son Jure was enough to negotiate with the ranger wheels run us into the black starry vegetarian bbq sky, where we got probably the best in the world the opportunity to observe how South Africa is coming New Year.
Five, four, three, two ... , - roared the crowd below us, and it seemed to rustle the previous sounds vegetarian bbq of the surf. In the black sky began to blossom colorful dandelion fireworks. Frozen in the warm moist air over the Atlantic, we enthusiastically vegetarian bbq watched as the light patterns flashed in the sky brighten vegetarian bbq all colors of the rainbow and the earth, otgorev disappeared, like fireflies in the pitch black of night. vegetarian bbq The picture is so fascinated that we forgot to pour into glasses South African champagne.
My youngest grandson Danya had already fast asleep in a cradle ferris wheel. But his older brother Philip took an active part in the general enthusiasm, and I like to think that this night would hit him in the memory for a long time.
Cape Town in the morning was filled with bright African sun, and, as expected, completely vegetarian bbq deserted. We went in search of a cafe for breakfast on Long Street, but the street was not yet awake, except for a few companies spree, enthusiastically embraced our presence with the camera. Among damped Christmas fun and still not cleaned piles of rubbish, unexpected island of serene tranquility looked small group of white men who found playing chess at a table in front of a closed cafe in the evening.
In a sense, the same Africa begins. The most south-western tip of the African continent was named by the Portuguese Cabo de Buena Esperanza as a symbol of untold wealth that promised they discovered a way to spice India. This path ran around Africa. Africa itself while the Portuguese were not particularly interested. But that time will come soon, and then we displace the Portuguese, Dutch settlers and French Huguenots, who will arrange for the most prosperous colony of South Africa. And then already and will press the British as a result of the two Anglo-Boer War. That unimaginable brutality with which British troops fought with the Boers, will be the harbinger of the next two World Wars. Even concentration camps were first tested here at the southernmost tip of Africa.
Everything that happened after that is well known: apartheid, Mandela, the current prosperous "rainbow nation", which peacefully coexist white, black and colored, consider their homeland South Africa. Our driver hos that we're going to the Cape of Good Hope, who was born in the Congo, where civil war does not stop for half a century. For South Africa it just became a symbol of good hope for a normal human life, which was not and there in his homeland.
Way to Cape Point from Cape Town is along the Atlantic coast. It is difficult to imagine that the mass of dark blue ocean under the scorching African sun - ice. From north to south down along the west coast of Africa during the cold Atlantic. At the Cape of Good Hope it will meet with a warm current, descending on the east coast is the Indian vegetarian bbq Ocean. This meeting of the two currents, invisible to the eye, makes the whole cape and Cape in a unique vegetarian bbq nature reserve, with some of the inhabitants of the land that we have met along the way. The story of this leave for another time.
Well, now we have a place in an endless line of cars slowly stretching to move to Cape Point. During the time that the car is dragged to the checkpoint (plates, placed along the road, urging patience), you can explore the bush vegetation, consisting of thousands vegetarian bbq of different flowers and shrubs. On the territory of Cape occurs more plant species than in