Prague or Cape Town?

MartinMorrison
Sat, 22 Jun 2013 06:23:23 +0000

Brojan! Many people know very little about South Africa, so take opinions with a grain of salt.

I am from South Africa, I am actually currently in Cape Town at the University of Cape Town (UCT) attending a research workshop. I have studied abroad in the US (Penn)and UK (Oxford, Edinburgh, Keele).

UCT is hands down the best campus I have ever visited. It blows Harvard, Penn, Yale, Oxbridge away.

Cape Town, and South Africa, is definitely not impoverished. The most posh places I have ever been to are in South Africa, especially Cape Town and UCT. If you don’t want to immerse yourself in SA culture or explore Africa etc etc - South Africa is perfect for you. Everything in this country, especially in Cape Town, was built to hide away all the ‘African’ from white people (read: Apartheid). If you go to Cape Town, you really won’t even notice you’re in ‘Africa’.

UCT has an amazing party scene, and there are more US students at UCT than anywhere else in South Africa and possibly Africa. Cape Town is the most international city in SA. The girls are beautiful and the weather is good. Every single high school student in SA wants to go to UCT because it wins in every department, especially for student life.

People can study abroad for whatever reason they want, and even with your reasons UCT is the best for you. South Africa is a bubble for the rich, a bubble you won’t find anywhere else in the world. Don’t even think about Europe.

This is where you’ll be studying: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/UCT_Upper_Campus_landscape_view.jpg . You will never find a place like this anywhere else in the world. This is what I drove through a few days ago: https://www.google.co.za/search?q=chapmins+peak&rlz=1C1CHXB_enGB525GB525&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&authuser=0&ei=C3zFUbXxEsay7AbIjoDABw&biw=1536&bih=764&sei=NXzFUYi7AbGf7AbnnoGACQ

You can fly to Durban, Joburg, Kruger at ~100 dollars.