| South Africa | |
| Cape Town | |
| If you are taking a tour of South Africa and you want to see Cape Town's many attractions it would be advisable to extend your holiday as three nights is not enough. You need to take a tour on the frequent open top double deck tourist bus as you do not see much from a coach. | |
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| Iconic Cape Town with Table Mountain bedecked with its table cloth late on a Sunday afternoon in October 2011 - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
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| The Clock Tower on the Waterfront (left) and a view over the harbour from the Cape Town Eye (right) - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
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| Devil's Peak viewed from the Cape Town Eye (left); South Pole - 6131 Km (right) - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
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| Cape Town Eye - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
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| Victoria and Alfred Waterfront which is perfectly safe to walk around at night - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
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| Cape Town's Victoria and Alfred shopping mall with famous international brands - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
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| Victoria and Alfred Hotel, Cape Town - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
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| Breakfast on the verandah the following morning - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
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| Coca Cola Man complete with vuvuzela - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
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| Fishing boats in Cape Town Harbour (left) and one of the many Armed Response vehicles seen all around South Africa (right) - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
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| Nobel Square (above) with the four statues commemorating - in order from left - the late Chief Albert Luthuli, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and former presidents FW de Klerk and Nelson Mandela. The elephant statues (right) can be found outside the Art and Craft centre in the V&A Waterfront - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
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| Cape Town is a working harbour. Evening (left) and a misty morning (right) with the tug ENGELENI in the basin - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
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| Table Mountain completely obscured by the mist and low cloud - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
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| Sign of the times with anti-piracy measures aboard the cable ship TELIRI - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
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| One of many Bo-Kaap minarets (left); Pentz Street (centre); Boorhaanol Islam in Longmarket Street (right) - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
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| Wale Street (left) and Chiappini Street (right) in Cape Town's Bo-Kaap - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
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| Bo-Kaap: the Mosque Shafie was originally a church and is on the corner of Chiappini Street and Church Street - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
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| Church Street corner in Bo-Kaap below Signal Hill - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
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| Brightly painted houses in Bo-Kaap's Chiapinni Street (left) and Helliger Lane (right) - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
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| Bananas in Bo-Kaap - spring 2011 - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
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| Parliament House, Cape Town (left) and the Tuinhuys (City Hall) (right) - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
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| Field Marshall Jan Smuts (left) outside the Iziko Slave Lodge in Wale Street and British imperialist Cecil Rhodes (right) in the Company Garden close-by - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
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| The Company Garden - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
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| Delville Wood Memorial in the Company Garden in front of Iziko South African Museum and Planetarium - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
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| Southbound (left) and northbound (right) on the N2 above Heerngracht Street - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
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| van Riebeck (left) and the Cape Town International Convention Centre (right) - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
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| Rush hour traffic on the N2 (left) and someone has just had the day spoilt outside the Victoria and Alfred (right) - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
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| The South African Air Force Museum is on three sites - at AFB Swartkop in Pretoria, at Port Elizabeth Airport and here at AFB Ysterplaat outside Cape Town where a South African Air Force Shackleton Mk 3 is preserved. The two photographs above taken at different times show the aircraft on the left in the earlier paint scheme with the South African Air Force springbok roundel and on the right with the later springbok castle motif - PHOTOs Steve McLean | |
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| Table Mountain and Table Bay viewed from a South African Air Force Shackleton - PHOTO Steve McLean. For comparison - an RAF Shackleton Mk 2 taken at RAF Eastleigh, Nairobi in 1961. Note the tail wheel - only the Mk 3 had a tricycle undercarriage - PHOTO Malcolm McCrow | |
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| Malaysia Airlines Boeing 747 9M-MPN - Pangkor - (left) climbs out over Table Bay (right) - unfortunately this is a poor shot, but you can't ask to go round again! PHOTOs - Malcolm McCrow | |