To me, CAPE TOWN was PERFECT… until I saw THIS. 🇿🇦🤔 

It's really just an insanely gorgeous place. Just since leaving I've realized even more how much I enjoyed my time there. It's already near the top of my list, I'm really looking forward to going back! (Also thank you for watching and the kind words!) 🙏🏻❤️

I ❤️ Cape Town 😊

I came here for Cape Town and Got Lost. Nice video for sure as someone that lived in Green Point for many years until last month.

Brilliant video and so glad you enjoyed your experience. Yes, Cape Town is a city of contrasts, courtesy of it's dark history, however, the majority of Capetonians are warm and hospitable. Hope to see you back again and who knows, maybe we hook up and hit some of gorgeous trails

It's really incredible, I'll be back for sure!

Thank you so much!! I loved it there and genuinely can't wait to go back 🙏🏻

.... and how long are we going to keep on blaming the past for our woes for? Why don't we take some of the responsibility for once, we have major Social and moral issues in South Africa and we need to acknowledge that...... You know them unless you pretend to be blind. Stop this Blame game and start well for your life, this excuse is getting tired already. Black people must stop being crybabies and imbeciles and our government must start doing it work.... and also sort our this illegal immigration shit!

Bear in mind that there is no such thing as "equality" in Nature. It is a concept invented by immoral and ignorant politicians. Equal opportunity is what you actually mean, and this is vitally important, but it requires enormous effort, excellent education and total dedication.

Ah thank you so much! I'm looking forward to getting a chance to visit Vietnam in the future as well! I appreciate it! 🙏🏻

Ah thank you so much! I definitely hope to get back to the country and explore some of the other cities soon as well! 🇿🇦

Thank you for watching! Absolutely, as they should be, it's such an incredible city! ❤️

Well said! And wow, what an accomplishment 160 countries! 👏🏻

Ah thank you so much!! That means a lot! You live in a beautiful and amazing country, I can't wait to make another trip! 🙏🏻🇿🇦

Thank you so much! Yeah I honestly would love to live there for those exact reasons. I'll be back! Thank you for watching!!

It's so incredibly beautiful, you are very lucky to live there!! ❤️🇿🇦

Ah I'm glad YT recommended it to you also! Thank you for watching!! 🙏🏻

Yeah we blame it on the apartheid government and on all the capitalist Hedgemon that made sure to keep control of the economy after apartheid ended. If your bitter about this country because of equality then you might as well head home to Europe. We dont need negative people like you here whilst we are building on the future. Your problem is that you hate equality and the fact that black people control this country. GO HOME. Well Done to this guy for pointing out the truth however bad it looks, its the truth!!!!!!

I'm excited to go back and see more!

i'm from the cape but would argue that Natal is probably more beautiful than the cape - drakensberg, isimangaliso, north coast, midlands... definitely worth the trip

@@lm_b5080 I'm not convinced, it just lacks the culture of the Cape, and I'm never too sure when someone offers me a drink whether they want to put their arse or ice into it.

​@@patrickfranke3819 hahaha Natal accents are special indeed.."can i have some fooish & chips"

@@lm_b5080 😉

Ah this is so nice to hear! I'm glad you enjoyed it and it means so much that you feel it reflects life for residents there. I really loved it and can't wait to make another visit! 🙏🏻🇿🇦

Absolutely. The whole thesis of the video is that the difference here is how in-your-face it is and with how luxury and poverty in South Africa live across the street from each other, but in other countries (by design) people have kept it more separate so they can avoid facing it. You're saying exactly what I'm saying!

@@Get.Lost.Travel sorry I disagree- look at Brazil for example- that’s just one.

​@societysista6187 Bru don't be that guy... the message of the video clearly flew right over your head

yes but the wealth gap in SA is the biggest globally 😢

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I appreciate it! It's definitely a tough balancing act, but I'm trying! 🙏🏻❤️

@@Get.Lost.Travel I lived in Cape Town for a year during the apartheid era. I am a white American. Some fun facts from back then: (1) The local commuter trains were segregated by race, so different cars were set aside for whites and non-whites. Local buses, on the other hand, were integrated, so when I wanted to do something with my black Angolan friend, we took the bus together. (2) The University of Cape Town, which I attended, was required by law to be a white university. BUT...if you were non-white and wanted to pursue a field of study not offered in non-white universities, you were allowed to attend UCT. As a result, there was a higher proportion of non-white students at UCT when I was there than there was at my liberal university in the United States. (3) I encountered Marxist theory applied to academic subjects for the first time in my life while at UCT. I'm not suggesting apartheid was better than we think---just that there were some interesting anomolies in those days.

Thanks so much! Wroclaw is another amazing city, both among my favorite places!

Thank you so much! 😊🙏🏻

Thank you for watching! It's all super complex, of course, but regardless it's just an incredible country!

Thank you so much! ❤️🙏🏻

Thank you so much! You have an incredible hometown!! ❤️ 🇿🇦

Thank you so much! It is! Definitely goes a long way. I was a waiter for years in New York, so I can relate to that life! Thanks so much for watching and the kind words!!

Thank you so much!! Most definitely, I appreciate the kind words! 🙏🏻

It IS! I keep thinking about it ever since I left, it's just stunning. 😍

Ah that's so kind! I'm also jealous that you're doing a larger-scale SA trip! I've barely scratched the surface on the country as a whole, but I'll be going back for sure. Thank you so much, I hope you enjoy it! 😊🙏🏻

It truly is, I've been all over and the things to do and the value and the beauty are really at the top, it's just an amazing place

The dynamics of present day in tandem with the history of the country are very interesting for sure! Regardless I absolutely love it and can't wait to go back. Thanks so much for watching!

@_theerealnono_7694 Don’t talk kak hey…

​​​​​@@TheWildernessChannelDid I actually blame W h i t e people in my original comment? Show me where I actually mentioned them above, or is it your conscience eating at you? While on the subject of migrants, let me say that many Xhosa people in Gugulethu, Langa, Khayelitsha, Nyanga and other areas of CPT have been there for a long time -- this isn't something recent as you're purporting. Langa was est. in 1923 under the Urban Areas Act, formally opened in '27. Nyanga in '46. So this fallacy that B l a c k people living in CPT is only a recent phenomenon is a fallacy. Many were born and raised in CPT. Yes, there are those who have moved there in recent times, coming from other provinces within RSA, however wouldn't you say they have just as much right to exist as everyone else who lives there since they're South African?

​​​@@TheWildernessChannelI live in Gauteng and there are plenty of people from other provinces, including CPT/ WC who moved here for economic opportunities, yet you hardly will ever hear us telling them that they are migrants and should go back to their provinces as much as you do in CPT. Seems a lot of CPT residents call Black South Africans migrants with undertones of "they don't belong here, they are a burden, and are unwanted." That's at least the impression I usually get. Ironically, you have those from Russia, Serbia, UK, Holland, etc who migrated to CPT/ WC in recent times, but I never see the same treatment bestowed upon them. I wonder why? 🤔 Suddenly you want to make a distinction between the Khoi and Bantu as African groups and even claim that all Cape Malays are descendants of the Khoi -- a misconception since many have more Asian or even Euro DNA and less African (Khoi) DNA compared to say, the Xhosa. All this just so you can say they don't belong there, however those of Euro descent who are South African totally belong there, no questions asked. The a u d a c i t y! *All South Africans* should be comfortable living within RSA w/out self-appointed landlords and Historians policing them and telling them where they do belong and don't belong. This isn't the '50s.

@@_theerealnono_7694 Firstly, you need to learn to read and interpret ehat I said properly. You talked about discrimination and glaring wealth disparities in the Cape in your first comment. You are implying it is the whites, in that comment, so yes you did blame whites. Besides the whole thread of this video is about seeing the disparities in wealth as brought about by whitea and apartheid. That is the implication and don't try to deny it. Every foreigner who travels to South Africa brings this up. It is the elephant in the room and helps them to gain virtue signalling points. Secondly, I did not say that blacks were not allowed in Cape Town, I merely noted that the black population in Cape Town was always very low at 4%, and that since 1994 there has been a massive influx of bantu people into Cape Town, many of them being foreigners. It now stands at at around 40%, perhaps more. That is clear evidence that the Cape was not traditionally the home of the bantu. That is an historic fact. You can't deal with the fact that the bantu people colonised southern Africa by driving out the Khoi/San, who were the original inhabitants. Now you insult them by denying that the Cape coloureds are the descendents of the hottentot people. I will also say that I resent the fact that there are foreigners of all kinds (Europeans included) who have swooped in and taken advantage of the chaos that is ANC rule. I stand by my original statement, and wrote it to set things straight. I will willingly acknowledge the history of apartheid, but I am sick of hearing falsehoods being pedalled by the other side. The history needs to be even handed, or are you going to deny the Mfecane happened, or that the ANC murdered and tortured their own people in their bases outside of South, or the reprehensible practice of necklacing. The economic disparities in South Africa now fall squarely at the feet of the communist ANC who had 30 years to properly educate all out citizens, but chose instead to lower the standards and destroy our education system. Open discrimination against whites has only forced them to adapt and become more versatile in finding ways to survive. Their economic success is partly driven by the actions of the ANC who have added over 125 anti-white laws against white South Africans. Yet they have allowed organised Russian and Nigerian criminals into our country. Worse than that, they are working with George Soros, a man who believes in exterminating people. Focud your attention on the real enemies of our country. The white South Africans are not the problem.

Thank you so much! It's really just stunning, you're going to love it!!

🥹 If you get emotional I'M going to get emotional. Thank YOU for watching!

Thank you so much! I miss it and can't wait to go back! ❤️

Ah I'm so glad! ❤️ It's rare I can find enough space without any judgmental onlookers to pull off a dance in a video 😂

Ah thank you so much!! It most definitely is, especially in such a beautiful place. I loved it there!

Ah, such love and respect for tour guides!!! 🙏🏻 Thank you so much, it's such an incredible place to visit!!

@@Get.Lost.Travel Thank you. I am glad you enjoyed your time in Cape town. Thank you for sharing and helping sharing Cape town with the world. 🙏

🤣 That's wild you grew up on an ostrich farm! That had to be such an interesting childhood. And yeah, unfortunately, it is pretty delicious 🤣

It's definitely a super unique experience for sure. One I'll definitely never forget, and am for sure looking forward to my next visit. Thank you so much!! 🙏🏻

Thank you so much! I will do that for sure, I'm excited to go back!

Thank you so much, I'm glad you liked it!! 🙏🏻 I saved all the Food/Wine stuff for a second video, actually! Has a whole moment over here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-HJPMb2Q7Seo.html

This is so kind, thank you so much! I'm really glad you enjoyed it, and I hope you're right! It's an incredible and beautiful place, and if I can put anyone at ease and convince them to go then it was more than worthwhile. 🙏🏻🇿🇦

Take care and do come back.

Yes, I've heard about these! I had a tour guide sort of talk us through some of the super creative solutions they're implementing, etc.

I'm trying! Sort of working on how to figure out my own personal connection to each place, I appreciate it!! And actually, there isn't one! The language in South Africa is primarily English, and it's the official language used on all signage, etc. The locals often speak Afrikaans as well, but you might as well be in London as far as language is concerned.

@@Get.Lost.Travel interesting!

We are all bilingual. ❤

Honestly! Already trying to go back! 🙏🏻🇿🇦

Thank you so much!! Yeah the trip up to Table Mountain and back down is honestly half the fun! I did a similar one in Bogota Colombia that was smaller but also super scenic. You're going to love it!

😂 🙌🏼 I'll take it!! Thanks for watching the whole thing and for the sub! 🙏🏻

Truly! I can't wait to go back!

Unreal! I literally am already thinking about when I can get back down there 😭❤️

Ah that's so kind, thank you so much! Thank YOU for watching, you're the best!

😂 Maybe one day!

Thank YOU for watching! I loved it there, I'll be suggesting it to people as long as they'll listen! ❤️🇿🇦

​@@Get.Lost.Travel We love our city. Please come back, we love tourists like yourself who take time to find out more about CPT and South Africa.

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You have an incredible City!! Thank YOU for watching! 🙏🏻

Sheesh!!! What a journey! I'm sorry all those negative things happened to you!

@Get.Lost.Travel i appreciate that. Namibia 🇳🇦 is lovely and the pressure is not here

Thank you so much, I'm glad you enjoyed it! Was super great meeting you there as well! I've also seen your videos and they're super well done! I'm learning a lot! 👏

The dancing is finally back! It's been a while, it was overdue. Ah I'm dyinggg to get to Hawaii! For all the places I've been it's insane I've never gotten over there. Maybe this November! Horse meat! I didn't know that was a thing in Iceland.🤯 Sooo many Penguins in SA! They're the cutesttt

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I have a whole video dropping Monday (the 20th) specifically about food in Cape Town, and I'll be talking about Gatsbys there! I was actually lucky to not experience the loadshedding during my time in SA. From my understanding it's because the elections were coming up, so I got lucky!

We haven’t had loadshedding for months…lol you seem thirsty for negativity but sorry to tell you it’s stopped😂

@@gekkiefl don’t you sound bitter for someone who’s supposed visited once but seem to know so much…lol You aren’t fooling anyone by your lies “I worked with some South Africans” lol you’re the bloody SAns. Oh we recognise your miserable tone…left the country (and you’re welcome to) but always watching out for miserable news to validate your choice to leave. Sterke back to you whilst you realise how tough life is in the west, outside of this beautiful country; warts and all were good here, don’t you worry yourself about us. Focus on settling there, wherever you are😂

It's a super interesting dynamic for sure! I hope you get the chance to go back, I'm sure so much has changed!

It's super unique for sure, the dynamic is different from anywhere else! But the good stuff is SO GOOD. 😭❤️🇿🇦

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Thank YOU for watching! It is a really incredible city, I'm still thinking about it. At the moment I'm a full-time nomad! I have new home bases monthly, and then sometime do smaller trips away from my bases as well. For Instance, Cape Town was my base in April. But I'm from New York City! And before I was a "digital nomad" I was travelling out from NYC for all my videos.

However, I do understand this it not a history specific channel, and the video is mainly concentrating on boosting the tourist attractions, whilst not forgetting there are still places of struggle wherever one goes.

It truly is, I love it so much!

And who are the 10% 🤔🤔🤔🤔

@@acappella1983 the employed.

Thank YOU for watching!

It's definitely complicated, that's for sure! But it truly is an amazing city and country, I'm excited to see how the elections play out!

Yes, exactly! It's nice when tourism is actually *helpful*. I can only imagine what might be coming soon to Cape Town, excited to see what it's like on my next visit!

Honestly, I would like that! 🙏🏻

Watching a rugby game would actually be a blast. I'll add it to the list for next time! 🙏🏻

They told us they were from out of town as part of their performance! So either 1) they're lying or more likely 2) they travel/commute in every day from out of town. Not sure why they would lie about that?

I forgot to mention our South African wines and beer.

Thank you so much! These are great recommendations! I will be back and I'll be exploring a lot more of the country and will try to do any of these things I might have missed! 🙏🏻

If come to Cape Town again, try to plan to visit our West Coast in August. Flower time West Coast and Namaqualand. Google Namaqualand flowers.

You mean like a Metro? No there isn't unfortunately. I'm sure one day soon, though!

For me it's not a "train", it was about the real-life effect of the inequality on my personal experience and how it's a very palpable thing. It's something you can really *feel*, and it is new and profound in a deep and meaningful way to those who aren't used to it. It blew me away, and that's what the video is about. Reading about it doesn't do it justice. It has nothing to do with big numbers or statistics. Of course there are many many years of politics and issues surrounding all of it, so I understand many people can't allow someone to just see something and talk about how it makes them feel without there being many many deep layers of history surrounding it, so I don't blame you for feeling the way you're feeling also.

😂 My internal conflict was at an all-time high. Sometimes it works out though, I tried Guinea Pig in Peru and it was really really not great. So I can feel OK looking at guinea pigs 😂

These ones did? I know that because they specifically told us where they came from as part of their performance? Like, I actually spoke to them?

@@Get.Lost.Travel I hear you, I'm a local so I know where they come from, just pointing it out. Doesn't really matter where they come from, the performance is always entertaining.

This is really interesting!! The basis for a great discussion for sure, thanks for sharing!

I will be back 100%, it's one of my new favorite places! Thank you for watching! 🙏🏻

I did, I talk about it for a whole segment of this video you're commenting on!

I'll mark down all these places! Despite any perceived negatives, I really fell in love with the place and will for sure be going back to explore other cities! Thanks for the recs! 🙏🏻🇿🇦

@@Get.Lost.Travel it really is a great place and glad you enjoyed yourself.✨Can't wait to have you ack and hopefully you do get a chance to explore around other parts of our country🇿🇦

If only that were an option! I'm with you, in life I enjoy peace and "zen" at times, but in 2024 the world of content creation on RU-vid just doesn't allow for it. People have extremely short attention spans. I'm quite certain if the video were a more relaxed pace you would never have never watched it in the first place since it would not have performed well enough with the masses for the algorithm to place it on your homepage. It's an unfortunate reality, but it's the world we live in as content creators! I love Cape Town, you truly have an incredible (and yes, relaxing) city!

🤣🤣 With every comment like this I'm only going to dance HARDER 🤣 (you're right though, real dancers have my heart)

Oh yeah, I mean this barely is even surface level. There are entire books written about the complexities of things like this. It's a video that should be watched through the lens of one visitor's observations (my own), and not taken as a socioeconomic thesis on a grand scale, that's for sure

@@Get.Lost.Travel Glad we agree.

I loved it so much, I definitely am excited to explore more of Africa!

@@Get.Lost.Travel Thank you, sir

So many people have so much to say about these dancers, but the dancers told us their story themselves. Where they were from. What they were doing it for. So I'll tend to believe them and not some people on the internet making assumptions. And *of course* they're putting on the smile as part of the performance, that's how dancing works?

Why wont you when you get attacked because of the colour of your skin.

I actually could never live in California, I've been many many times (I work in film) and it's much too spread out for me. Aside from perhaps San Francisco, but in that situation the cost is immense, even moreso than in NYC. And yeah, of course! This isn't a video about the different ethnic divisions of South Africa and where they all live and exist economically. This is merely about my personal experience and observations, and the clips you see are just of whomever happened to be near me at the moment when I hit "record". Though I do mention the San and the Khoekhoe tribes in the video as the original natives to the area, if you watched all the way through 🇿🇦

I'm sure it is, but just because every nation has their own history. I plan on finding out for myself, hoping to one day visit every nation in the continent! (or as many as I can!)

​@@Get.Lost.Travel Cape Town 🇿🇦 is the only country in Africa with entertainment.. I live in South Africa

To be fair he did not say that the income inequality of current day South Africa was due to apartheid. Most of the nouveau rich are not white anyway.

Are the Xhosas not native to the Eastern Cape? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xhosa_people

As some would want you to believe