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This is the centre of Cape Town, popularly known as the "City Bowl":
Devil's Peak is on the left, Table Mountain is behind the city, with
the Twelve Apostles stretching off to the right behind it, and Lion's Head and
Signal Hill lie to the right of the city
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Table Bay and the port of Cape Town,
with the Central Business District just inland. The suburb
in the foreground is Sea Point, with Signal Hill behind it.
The Cape Flats stretches out into the distance, and False Bay is just visible
near the top right hand corner
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Sea Point continues in the bottom left hand corner. The beach below Lion's Head
is Clifton, followed by the long curved sandy beach at Camps Bay.
The view of Table Mountain is end on, with Devil's Peak beyond the City Bowl
to the left of Table Mountain.
In the background is False Bay, with the mountains leading to
Cape Hangklip visible
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Further to the south is the village of Llandudno
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Llandudno is in the foreground, and the bay coming in from the right is
Hout Bay. Little Lion's Head lies between them.
The mountain behind Hout Bay is Constantiaberg, and southern end of the
Cape Peninsula stretches off into the distance
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Close up on Hout Bay. Chapman's Peak drive snakes up on the opposite shore
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Chapman's Peak drive
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Looking northward. The rugged stretch of coast in the foreground is between
Hout Bay and Llandudno. The valley on the right is the Hout Bay valley.
Lion's Head is on the left, and the view of Table Mountain is
the unusual view from behind
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The southernmost village along the west coast of the
Cape Peninsula is Scarborough. Farther south is the Cape of Good
Hope Nature Reserve, now part of the Cape Peninsula National Park
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On the east side of the Cape Peninsula is the naval harbour at
Simonstown. Cape Point is in the far distance. Glencairn is in the foreground
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Devil's Peak. The two clusters of large buildings are Groote Schuur Hospital
in the foreground,
where the world's first heart transplant was performed,
with the
University of Cape Town beyond the large green grassy area.
The "southern suburbs" of Cape Town stretch off into the distance
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Robben Island, once the
unvisitable prison of Nelson
Mandela, now a World Heritage Site. The
Robben Island Museum
welcomes hundreds of thousands of
visitors per year.
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All these pictures were taken from scheduled
KLM flights,
either on arrival or departure from Cape Town.
Weather permitting, KLM does a grand tour of the Cape Peninsula
on its daily flights between Amsterdam and Cape Town.
Staff of the Avian Demography Unit fly KLM preferentially
whenever feasible. We make our bookings with
Penny le Mesurier at
Harvey World Travel Rondebosch Village
(formerly Titch Travel)
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