A TripAdvisorâ„¢ TripWow video of a travel blog to Cape Town, South Africa by TravelPod blogger Muratcan. See this TripWow and more at tripwow.tripadvisor.com Mandela's Island "Last night we had sushi at a stylish restaurant called "Beluga". Our German friend Simon was sitting across from me. We started talking about the soul of a city. Towards the end of our conversation I realized that Cape Town had none. The glass skyscrapers, the advanced infrastructure, the football stadium that was being built for the World Cup, the Unagi we were eating could all be found in a developed Western city. Let's be fair... The convergence of the Table Mountain Range and the oceans creates a majestic setting and no Western city can equal Cape Town in terms of income disparity. After spending over a week at Alex's, I decided to move to another friend's place so that I could spend a bit more time with him. Hence, I moved to Selcuk's apartment in Rondebosch, a suburb to the east of the Observatory. Selcuk is a Turkish friend from the boarding house of our high school. He was 2 years below me. Currently, he is a mechanical engineering major at Princeton. "What the hell is he doing in Cape Town?" you may ask. Well, he is doing a semester abroad at the University of Cape Town, which is the most reputable academic institution on the entire continent. As I was having breakfast at a coffee house called Cocoa Wah Wah near Selcuk's, I heard Alex honking at me in his rental Opel Corsa. We drove to the ...