Last day of this tour

November 19, 2025

Since I have been in Cape Town before and we can’t use the gondola on table mountain because the winds are too high I decided to stay around the hotel in Bantry Bay and just chill out. The winds are steady at 55kph/32mph gusting to 95kph/55mph so not much wonder the gondola is closed. I wasn’t interested in hiking up and down Table Mountain nor schlepping around town with a group. I wandered around a bit but frankly I have had enough of the wind so I did some laundry and relaxed until we went out for our last dinner as a group.

The yellow line on this map was our route for yesterday.

Map of Cape Town. The red dot is where we are staying now.

The gang that hiked up and down Table Mtn, 5 Canadians and 1 German. The total hike was 14.2km with 965m of climbing.

There is this amazing pool complex in Sea Point. I am sure that it is a salt water pool.

Not unlike NZ coffee is taken very seriously here.

Checkers is a grocery chain and you see these delivery motorcycles everywhere.

From Stefa’s Strava the profile and distance of the hike that I did not do.

At dinner last night where a variety of African dishes was served they also painted our faces. The place was pretty “touristy “ but fun nonetheless

Kim our driver without painting but a lovely smile.

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