Early in the morning it is time to leave the hostel for our first experience with the new group: a tour of one of Cape Town’s many Townships. These are parts of town where only black people live and were previously dangerous, but now things are slowly starting to change, and some visitors are now allowed in. First walking between the run-down buildings. and then through the sheds, there is a feeling that something is out of balance. These people don’t have bathrooms (rows of festival-tanks along the street serve this purpose), many don’t have their on bed, but they have 3G cellphones, dress nicely, and drive rather nice cars. Our guide tells us they don’t want to show that they are poor when they go to town or to work. One of the township’s streets has nice big houses with gardens and fences around, where the few townshippers who have prospered economically live, who still wish to stay with their neighbors.
After a very long but pleasant flight we land in Johannesburg where we have just a three hours waiting before the last leg to Cape Town. The hotel has arranged a driver to pick us up at the airport. We know we are getting a nice hotel, so that we can reload our batteries before the long overland (truck tour), but we didn’t expect it to be as nice as this! Amazing huge bed, full minibar, bathtub, flat screen TV, coffee, tea and snacks of all sorts. It is really a great room and we’ll say our money are well spent!
The idea of having to spend six days here makes me really happy!