AirPano ~ Cape of Good Hope and Cape Town surroundings

1 ~~~ AirPano ~ Cape of Good Hope and Cape Town surroundings

One of the countries available to be visited in the spring of 2021 was the Republic of South Africa. There was no quarantine at the arrival, the only thing you needed was a standard Covid-test. Thus we decided to take a risk and try to capture one of the most beautiful cities in the country, Cape Town.

And on a warm April night, being slightly stunned by an almost 24-hour journey from Moscow, I finally crawled out of the Cape Town airport and tried to mentally adjust myself to the peculiarities of driving a right-hand drive car. The head couldn't think straight and my mind wandered; it's good that there was practically no traffic on the highway, and it took me only half an hour to get to the hotel. But at the entrance to the city centre, I saw that something apparently abnormal was happening around: there were many firefighters and police cars on the side of the road, some fires were visible in the distance, everything was in smoke and it was difficult to breathe.

In the morning I learned that a fire broke out in the Table Mountain National Park just the day before my arrival. Locals talked about arson. The park itself got closed, several hundred firefighters were trying to halt the advance of the fire towards the city. The flames were also extinguished from helicopters, but unfortunately, due to strong winds, so far without much success. The library and campus of the local university, as well as several historical buildings, had already burned down.

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5 November 2021