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Travel Blogs from Cape Point, South Africa
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Leopard Prints and Waterfalls
This is a top pick! ... ' of the waterfall by the camp, but when I look at it now it certainly fills me with great memories - and that's the point. Then, even better news - the 26th had been brought forward 3 days, so it was goodbye to the pasta shells, pepper, and onion. ...
At the end of Africa
This is a top pick! Dream Two : Check It somehow seemed appropriate to be standing at the Cape of Good Hope, one month after I arrived in South Africa. I cried. I was alone and at the end of the earth. Next stop Antarctica. What joy. It turned out to be a most ...
Wine,Penguins, Birds and the Two Oceans
This is a top pick! ... a grand old time. I had to do a lot of smooth talking and negotiating (food) to re-appropriate my rubber tie! Cape Point and Cape of Good Hope near Simon's Town is where two oceans meet; the Indian and the Atlantic. I ...
Cape Point and Cape of Good Hope
Beautiful day in this part of South Africa. After an early morning drive along some of the southeastern bays, I drove out to Cape Point and the Cape of Good Hope, climbing to the edge of the continent and just beyond the lighthouse. Also visited a place ...
Flower Day aka 1st day of Spring
Day Trip to Cape Point for R385 (discounted by R50 if you buy a Baz Bus pass to tour the Garden Route). The most southwesterly point of Africa. The foliage here is so breathtaking that I really miss my camera (long story, but it went on the fritz in ...
Sunrise at the tip of Africa
... a marathon if we were going to see most of what Cape Town had to offer. So it was up at sparrow's in an attempt to get to Cape Point by opening time/sunrise. We almost made it - its a very long way over some quiet, but difficult roads - so there was still ...
T' Garden Route feat. Springbok
... laughing at our car (they were all jealous), BJ, Mel, Morgs, Jules, Michelle, Dustin and Claire waved us off and we sped off towards Cape Point. We had no real idea where we were going and a lack of a decent map didn't help, but we didn't care too much, ...
Cape Point
... east. If you look at a map you will understand what I mean and also realise that Cape Point in not the most southern point of Africa. Cape point and the Cape of Good Hope is definitely something to do if you are in the area. The scenery is worth it but ...
Promenade sur la péninsule du Cap
... de se retrouver sur la carte de l'Afrique. Perché à plus de 800 mètres au dessus du niveau de la mer, le phare de Cape Point, maintenant un monument historique, offre un panorama à se régaler les yeux. Lors d'une journée sans nuages, des bateaux à ...
Cape Point: Peninsula, Penguins & Protea
... ;region not only featuring great sites but also baboons and many protea. We enjoyed a leisurely drive as we headed south straight for Cape Point. Here we stopped for a hike up to the lighthouse, hiked around trails and enjoyed the cliff ...
Aussies + Cape Point
... . We rolled ourselves home and that was that. Today Liisi and I helped on the first day of Yr 9 camp, which was a 10km hike at Cape Point nature reserve. We didn't get to the Point (the most southern point), but all the same, we drove through a pack of ...
Cape Point
... . After an initial struggle to come to terms with my first bit of exercise in over six weeks I managed to pedal my way to Cape Point first! My picture was the first to be taken, and a good job too as the hordes soon arrived to steal any further photo ...
Capes, Baboons, Penguins, and Farewells
... them they'd done a sufficient job and that we'd take the car from there. So back in the car we were, driving south towards Cape Point. Cape Point and the Cape of Good Hope are both housed in the same National Park, which is an arm of Table Mountain ...
Cape Point. Part II
... enough to recognise those and to distinguish them from eagles, as I overheard a rather over-excited American yelling that he could see. From Cape Point it is about an hours walk to the Cape Of Good Hope, Africa's most SW point. Not, I know, the most ...
Penguins!!!
... it just led them into a ..false bay. Simons Town is where the penguins can be found, or rather about 1km further south in Boulders Beach. Its a nature reserve so fortunately for them, they are protected from the marauding public like myself, who would ...
We Feel So Underdressed!
... helped divede the two. It was stunning. On our way back to Cape Twon, we drove on the Chapmans Road, which is South Africa's Great Ocean Road. It was yet another beautiful coastal drive along the cliffs overlooking the ocean. We are having such ...
Penguins and Baboons
Leaving Cape Town behind, we headed to Cape Point and the Cape of Good Hope (the southwestern most point of Africa). I wish I could upload these pictures...but the drive was most easily compared to driving along Route ...
extreme southwestern tip of the African continent
actually the southernmost point in Africa is Cape ...
Edge of Glory!
... . Our continued motto is "Sleep when you're in America", but we've added a new one. TISA, which stands for This Is South Africa. It is our way of justifying things, such as eating unsanitary goat head, drinking "coffee", speaking in a British accent, and ...
Cape Point
Cape Point is most South Westerly point on the whole African continent and that where we were heading today. We were up early and showered and headed out around 9am. The drive to Cape Point is unreal, I think this road and the road from ...
34.21 S - Cape Point, Table Mountain NP
... a trip of their own from Istanbul to Singapore. We rented a car and headed down the incredibly gusty Cape to Cape Point, the end of our trip south. Geoff, thinking of this moment, of course, brought a handy GPS unit to mark the end point of our trip ...
Southern Africa Overland Tour : Week 1 and 2
Hey guys, Week 1 & 2 of the tour has been amazing! Its been so long since I have emailed that Im going to keep what I did in the first weeks as short and sweet as poss! We did a township tour in SA, which I thought was going to be awful but it was ...
Cape Point (2012): Tip of the Continent
... it to a dragon, while the Zulus referred to it as the "Barrier of Spears". Of all the places in the world, South Africa has unusually high lightning strikes and these usually lead to forest fires; the Drakensberg does live up to its name. I ...
Driving to the most southern tip of Cape Town
... but unfortunately, it wasn't meant to be. :-( Michel and I were picked up at the Waterfront at 8:30am for our Cape Point-Cape Peninsula Tour. Since we were the first ones to be picked up and no one else was seated in the minivan, ...
Seals, Penguins and Cape Point
... our adventure travel in South Africa, today we arranged for a nice private tour to explore the western coast of South Africa from Cape Town to Cape Point (southern point of the African continent). Hylton Ross (www.hyltonross.co.za) provided our ...
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