I stayed at a backpackers called Carnival Court in Cape Town, which was nice, even though it was loud at night. Here's a view from the balcony across the road:
It was raining when I arrived and we spent the day down at the waterfront, meeting up with a few friends but it was a pretty quiet day. I did see some random Germans posing with Desmond and friends though.
The next morning I went with a few friends who knew someone who had a car and we drove through the mountains around the city. There were some amazing views, even though it was raining and really cloudy at times.
By lunch it had cleared up and we had some excellent seafood in Simonstown, a pretty touristy place outside of Cape Town. From there we went to the beach and saw some African penguins.
The beach was wide open and they were just running all over the place and nesting on the beach as well. You could just walk right up to them, it was pretty cool. In the afternoon we went down to the Cape of Good Hope, the southernmost point in Africa. This is the very end here...
And there's me looking out over the whole thing...
We then went to a Braai (cook out) at one of our friend's house. He and his dad built an entire enclosed patio with a bar and a barbeque, it was really well done, and they had some interesting political views on South Africa. We rounded off the night at a 21st birthday party at this really swanky club, despite being underdressed and having to go change. The next day we went to the aquarium, and saw more penguins, amongst other things..
That night we went to a huge club called Springboks, which was massive, and there must have been 2000 people there, both inside and outside. 
The last day I went to Robben Island, the prison where many Apartheid-era political prisoners, including Nelson Mandela, were held. This was the abandoned rugby pitch the prisoners used to play on:
They also had dog cages that were bigger than the prison cells for the guard dogs.
There are still a few hundred people living on the island, maintaining the grounds and running things, and they have a fully functioning church, post office, and school amongst other things. Here's the school:
The island provided amazing views of the city, and this is probably the best one I got with Table Mountain in the background.
We were rushed through the tour of the actual prison itself, I'll try to find some pictures of Mandela's cell that I took, I may have a few more photos to throw up here as well, check back in a few days. Finally, one day we were walking down the street and stopped at a shop run by this Asian guy, and he was obviously quite taken by Steven Seagall. Totally random.
