The Stadium

Cape Town boat charters provide the best possible opportunity for you to see the city from an entirely new and vastly different perspective. When you visit a city so closely linked to the sea, not only geographically but historically too it makes perfect sense to take a sunset cruise into one of the many bays to enjoy the beauty of the Atlantic sea board without dealing with the crowds that these beaches attract. The perspective offered by Cape Town boat charters is beautiful and unique it's a trip that has to be taken. While there is no doubting the magnificence of Chapman's Peak drive and the amazing views offered from the top of Table Mountain they don't come close to comparing to the panoramic view of the twelve apostles from the sea. Interestingly these views are very seldom sold on postcards; perhaps it is this that makes them so special.

On the outskirts of the city bowl right on the edge of the Atlantic Ocean there is a building, a monument that was completed with much pomp and ceremony at the beginning of 2010. It was a building that was clouded in controversy from its inception and its construction was the topic of much debate with both sides having equally strong opinions, however when it was completed it drew tens of thousands of foreigners and by all accounts created positive life changing memories for both the locals and the tourists. When the crowds had left and the politicians had finished patting each other on the back the building was once again the subject of much debate and venom, more than once been called a white elephant. The building in question is of course the new Cape Town stadium. To the people that describe it as a pimple on the Cape Town skyline and a waste of tax payer's money I have only one thing to say, they have obviously yet to see it from the sea. It is from this vantage point that the true magnificence of this monument to Cape Town's beauty truly makes sense.

The Mother City is a place that was first seen by foreign visitors from the sea so it is relevant and strangely awesome that the best view of the stadium is from the sea at the same time it is sad the majority of positive comments about the stadium come from tourists while those for whom the stadium was really built are to short sighted and blinded by political diatribe to appreciate it.

Every Capetonian should be forced to take anyone of the sunset cruises that leaves from the V&A Waterfront to witness and appreciate the true architectural beauty of Cape Town.