Green Point Park

This guide to Green Point Park in Cape Town starts on 14 December 2009, when the ground you're standing on was still a fenced construction site and a stadium invoice worth billions of rand changed hands. It traces the park that grew up afterward on land that had once been common grazing, a racetrack, and a golf course, and follows what it actually costs Cape Town's ratepayers to keep the stadium beside it running each year. Listen for the frogs in the reed beds as you walk the paths around the lawns.