Walking around...

Walking through Cape Town is simply awesome although, like any other big city, the Mother City suffers sorts of issues like poverty, violence, and so on. So don’t get surprised if you see homeless people begging money at streets (if you want to help, don’t give them your money).

View to Cape Town, from Lion's Head Mountain. By Stefan Willeke

Besides it, Cape Town is a really clean, organized and beautiful city; Capetonians are a lovely, warm and happy people (especially if you are Brazilian, hehe). However, the city just fails when you look down at the transportation system, which is awful. It is really necessary to take a mini-bus to go anywhere, though it is funny and safe (during the day-light).

Speaking about that, travelling by the famous mini-buses is a single experience. In the whole country there are millions of them in everywhere, and you can just climb into some of it by the streets, wherever you are. It is the cheapest way to go anywhere in Mother City, however it isn't what I call 100% safe... but certainly is funny!

Its ticket costs about R6, which depends on the time you take it or even on the driver's humor...hehe. The most interesting in this whole thing is: your sucess dropping of in the right place is correlated with your ability to emulate the capetonian's accent; otherwise the driver may not understand you (hehe... it's really funny, at all).

Furthermore, because of the 2010 World Cup, the mini-bus service has been improved a lot in the entire country; so it is much more modern than it used to be in 2008.

My tip in here is: avoid taking the mini-bus during the night, because it's not the safiest way, definately! Just for an example: an italian friend of mine decided to take a mini-bus around 20:00 from Green Point to Sea Point, and the driver almost kidnapped her... if she couldn't jump out at the traffic lights (and she got in the school telling us this occurrance and laughing as a crazy one!). Despite of it, I personaly took the mini-bus, couple of times, during the night and nothing has happened to me (thanks God).

Do you want an advice? Don’t be afraid of anything but enjoy your time in Cape Town. I’m pretty sure that Mother City is going to turn to you, making you feel like at home.

Nevertheless, Cape Town has loads of amusement options . The city disposes you beautiful mountains (we are speaking about that later), public parks, libraries, museum, art galleries, squares and whatever... mostly  of it are public places, open until 17:00. 

From left to right: Italian, German, ME and Swiss

In case of you prefer more convenience and safety, or either you have no time enough, LAL Language School offers a weekly tour schedule, which includes a pleasant city tour… you just have to speak with Hugo (my bruu!). However, if you are just like me, who want to do everything by your own and enjoy the city, it’s simple: gather some friends and together go for explore. It is very cheap taking a taxi in Cape Town, so if you have a couple of friends it will be even cheapest. In that way you can enjoy your afternoons in a good company, having some fun with good friends and taking lots of photos. And, what is better… doing all of it, in english.

So guys... i'm stoping here today, though I already have a nice and helpful topic for tomorrow. I'l write about some good places to go for visiting in town!!

See you later!!!