Today we’re going to the townships! Albert lives in one of the townships himself and is our guide for today. First he took us to District Six, where we visit the museum. We went to three townships (Langa, Nyanga and Gugulethu) It felt kind of weird, a bunch of white people with big camera’s coming to see how these people live. On the one hand it makes you aware of what is happening and see another side of Capetown. On the other hand you feel like an intruder, going into these people’s homes. It is undescribeble what we saw there. People living in shacks with their whole families and children walking the street barefoot. The shack's leak when it rains, are hot during the day and cold during the night. A major problem with shacks is they are built very close together and allow fires to spread very rapidly through an area. The majority of people still use kerosene stoves for cooking and candles for lighting, which causes a very intense smell and colors the houses black on the inside. After we visited a family living in one of the shacks, we continued our way to a brewery situated in a shack. The women make the beer there and the man pay a little amount to drink all day. We took a little zip of the homemade beer which made Lou almost throw up (isn’t used to anything). After this we went to visit a local herbalist, who makes all kinds of medication. The reason that he did not have a medicine for aids, was that the disease did not exist in the period their grand-grand parents were alive. In Gugulethu we visited a kindergarten, which was established there with the help of Daytrippers, the organization with which we took this tour. The children first sang and counted for us, after which they ran towards us and were holding on to us wherever they could. We arrived back in Capetown at around one, where we meet up with the Dutch couple and a German guy who we met during the township tour. Our mission for this afternoon; climbing the Tablemountain. After some blood, sweat and tears we made it to the top. And it was definitely worth the trouble. Looking down on Capetown, you could hear the city breathing. We made lots of pictures of the view and we also saw our first Dassies. We had a little something to eat and went back down with the cableway. This afternoon we had a first meeting with the group, with whom we’re going to spend the next 19 days. The tour starts very early tomorrow morning. The group consists out of 22 people, 5 Spanish, 5 Dutch (us included), 2 German, 7 English and 3 Australian people. After this we took a quick shower and went back in town!! After a nice meal at Mama Africa, we went to a local bar with the five of us and showed those Africans how to boogie. Unfortunately, this is our last night in Capetown. This city is incredible, amazing and beautiful!! We’re looking forward to everything that’s coming, but it hurts a little to say goodnight to Capetown for the last time…