South America and South Africa

Yesterday night Claire and I and two others from the hostel were at an event that most likely I wouldn’t have visited if I had been in Europe: it was the “Christmas Carols and Candlelights” event in the Botanical Garden of Cape Town organized by the Rotary Club. It is a series of three concerts were families and friends gather for a picknick and after sunset sing christmas carols supported by a choir and a narrator reading parts of the nativity play while children are performing it. The organizers provide candles and the lyrics of the carols so that everybody is able to sing (guess who wasn’t). It was such a peaceful atmosphere with  these thousands of people sitting on a big lawn in the beautiful botanical garden, from some families several generations came together, the kids were playing around, and when the sun came down the only lights were those from the candles and the far away suburbs of Cape Town.