Cape Town: #1 NY Times Place to Visit in 2014!!

Coming tomorrow from the New York Times in their Sunday Travel Section, they have this headline: "52 Places to Go in 2014" with Cape Town, South Africa, at the top of their list for locations to visit this year.

Among the story highlights: "A place to meditate on freedom, and the creative life that followed. When Nelson Mandela was incarcerated at Robben Island prison, he found inspiration in Cape Town. 'We often looked across Table Bay at the magnificent silhouette of Table Mountain,' he said in a speech. 'To us on Robben Island, Table Mountain was a beacon of hope. It represented the mainland to which we knew we would one day return.' Cape Town’s importance to Mandela, who made his first address there as a free man, will doubtless draw many visitors in the wake of his death. Cape Town is celebrating design in all its forms, hosting architecture open houses, welcoming the public into artists’ studios and folding the annual visual arts spectacular Design Indaba conference in February into the design capital program. Cape Town is again reinventing itself, and the world is invited to its renaissance."

This story also has details on Namibia as ranked sixth with this notation: "Africa’s latest conservation success story is a boon for travelers." In the 19th position in the world, they had Laikipia Plateau, Kenya, with this heading: "A pristine slice of biodiversity is home to a new luxury eco-resort." At 39th is Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, with this highlight: "On the African coast, music thrives in a commercial capital." Lots of interesting highlights and options for Africa and the World!!

We are now working on pulling together the details for our planned late March-April 2015 Africa (Kenya-Zanzibar-Madagascar-South Africa-Botswana) adventure. That includes a 13-day Kenya to South Africa cruise, plus safari options before in Kenya and after in Botswana.

Full story at:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/01/10/travel/2014-places-to-go.html?ref=travel

THANKS! Enjoy! Terry in Ohio

Back from doing a 14-day Celebrity Solstice, Jan. 20-Feb. 3, 2014, Sydney to Auckland adventure on this ship and getting a big sampling for the wonders of "down under” before and after this cruise. Go to:

http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=1974139

for much more information and lots of wonderful pictures on these amazing sights in this great part of the world. Now at 58,142 views for this fun posting.

I just caught up with this. Thanks for sharing it, Terry.

Keith