20 August 2009

A bucolic interlude in SA

David Pauline visits Cape Town and the Western Cape

SASunset over Knysna lagoon

I must ask you, first, to put aside for the moment any preconceptions you may have of South Africa – leastwise the Western Cape region.

If you’re looking to find poverty, you will surely find it in some of the townships around Cape Town. If you’re expecting to look out of your hotel window and see herds of Wildebeest galloping across the plain, you’ll be disappointed. (The serious game reserves are way up north.) And if you’re concerned about unfettered lawlessness, with a mugger lurking on every street corner, you’ll be pleasantly surprised.

And from here on in it just gets better and better. More