Cape Town, South Africa Travel Blogs

... Bay area to drop off our bags and then head South from there to Cape Point. With new plan in hand we headed South and as we left Cape Town  for the coast we could sense a complete change in pace to the 2 days in central Cape Town. We missed the ...

A travel blog entry by mindabarley
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Charlotte and I celebrated NYE09 at a rooftop party at the V&A Harbour with 3000 people in attendance. It was crazy, tickets were R250 (approx 17GBP) We went with Andy, Dave and Calvin from the hostel. This has to be the best NYE of my life. A round ...

A travel blog entry by stephen.j.booth
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We phoned the Bazbus this morning and found that the next bus to Mossell Bay was fully booked, new year has totally thrown us off-track. After considering hiring a car for around 150GBP we settled on getting the Intercape bus for approx 35GBP straight to ...

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... , at least in public; it helps pave the way - seems to work. Mind you, I wasn't really aware of this until South Africa. I thought people would walk right through me there, but they smiled as they approached; standing in line at a buffet the man beside ...

A travel blog entry by katherine-anne
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... that being said, I think we are both glad to be on our own again, setting our own pace and arranging everything ourselves. Cape Town is nestled into the area surrounding a number of dramatic rocky peaks. It is a super modern town that except for the ...

A travel blog entry by globedecker
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I deliberately made no plans for my time in South Africa after the project - alone in this unknown country I wanted to do whatever I fancied. What I most needed now was to distance myself from what I'd just experienced. Torn between dying to get away and ...

A travel blog entry by katherine-anne
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... to everything that was around it. There really is a massive disparity between the rich and the poor in this country. Despite the fact Cape Town must be the most beautiful city I've ever seen, I think I'd find it hard to live here due to this disparity and ...

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Click here for Cape Town photos Wandered through the harbour, up Long St. and Kloot St. on the way to the cable car up Table Mountain. Managed to get a bit lost in a maze of houses and ended up bushwhacking the final path across some desolate land ...

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... was locked away at for 20+ years. I have to say the tour wasn't great, nothing like Alcatraz. The views back onto Cape Town though were absolutely stupendous. The interesting part of the tour for me was the ex-prisoners who showed you around. They ...

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We have arrived baby. We weren't met by the busy Cape Town I had expected but by a quiet ghost town that seems to shut down on Sunday. Long Street, our home for the next six days is peaceful (I want my money back) nothing like we had been told, pretty hard ...

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... you on a confrontational basis! Both Sarah, myself and most of the travellers who we met in Australia felt this way. Cape Town is a beautiful city with Table Mountain and other mountains acting as a fabulous backdrop to a fantastic city. The market ...

A travel blog entry by jeffs
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Very easy day to recover from all the activity from the previous days. Had breakfast on the balcony and spent the morning sunbathing by the pool. Headed to Kalk bay for lunch at the Olympia Café where I had roast chicken and Steve had a BIG steak sandwich ...

A travel blog entry by mindabarley
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... out our room, and make sure she makes it through her jet lag by going down to the Victoria and Albert Waterfront for lunch. South Africa has incredibly tasty cheap food and fantastic wine, so we indulge and then book ourselves on a sail boat for a sunset ...

A travel blog entry by charmedlife
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... in Salty Sea Dog, Simon's Town. Watched baboons chasing tourists with food and drinking Appletizer. Climbed to lighthouse at south western most point of Africa for stunning views. Saw first wild Ostrich's. Back to CT, booked Baz Bus to Durban, via ...

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... heading to Stellenbosch and the Tokara vineyard. Perched on a hill in a beautiful location it was owned by the 6th riches man in South Africa as a hobby! We had a late lunch as at a place owned by Robbie's cousin. The food was fantastic, we had ...

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Sunday 22nd April - Cape Town This morning we went down to the Green Point craft markets. We bought some nice crafts to send home for our house. Then after lunch we picked up Daniel (safari friend) and drove the scenic drive up to Table Mountain. Now I ...

A travel blog entry by peteandmandy
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... into the restaurant! I crash on Christine's couch and catch up on a bunch of writing that I've been neglecting while enjoying myself to the utmost in South Africa!  This 2 week segment will be awfully hard to beat as I travel around the world...

A travel blog entry by madman96
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... at all. We landed at 7am on Thursday and headed straight for the hostel. For those who know the city, we're staying at Cape Town Backpackers, which is just off Kloof Street, by a restaurant called Greens and a Nandos, and about a 5minute walk down to all ...

A travel blog entry by samkirsop
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... planning my next trip segments.  After a while I feel like I'm wasting time looking ahead and walk around downtown Cape Town.  I browse Green Market Square and walk into the Jewish Museum (where the main exhibit is Hidden Treasures of Japanese ...

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... by her pool at an apartment complex that could rival any top building in NYC, LA or Miami, and it's in the heart of Cape Town (Mandela Rhodes Place).  We are immediately enthralled by this setting and we decided to join in the fun.  Turns out the ...

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... that, some noodles and a bottle of Sauvignon Blanc. It was perfect and the whole bill came to £17.53. What a welcome to South Africa. Unfortunately the sun welcomed us a bit too vigorously and Steve got that pink, sun burnt look of a Brit abroad down to a ...

A travel blog entry by mindabarley
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... to score a ticket to Robben Island, which houses the prison built in the 1960's which housed political prisoners opposed to South Africa's system of apartheid. On the island the day I arrived, the weather was beautiful and sunny, giving a false impression ...

A travel blog entry by charmedlife
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... station, it was just like been back in the USA. Hotdogs, hamburgers and meat pies were all on the menu. South Africa seems to have an enormous variety of Cadbury's chocolate. They have whole shelves devoted to Cadbury's with flavourings such as ...

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... video when I get a bit more time. This afternoon we went to the meeting to chat about the next three weeks. We'll miss Cape Town but we can't wait to get going on our 21 day camping tour through Namibia, Botswana and up to Zimbabwe. Probably won ...

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... does provide spectacular views of the nature reserve below. On to the Cape of Good Hope which IS the most south-westernly tip of Africa, the winds (gale-force) were incredible and I did nearly go flying along with one man's camera who had asked me to ...

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... much of the time! The four of us had a few drinks and a meal together - though we'd seen Charlene two weeks earlier in Cape Town, this was our only chance to catch up with Gerhard. A very precious couple of hours indeed. The flights and stop-overs in ...

A travel blog entry by idarich
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... more like San Francisco than their preconceived notions of Africa. Over the last few days, we have explored downtown Cape Town, gone to the most southwestern tip of Africa at the Cape of Good Hope, taken in a little culture at the Cape Town City Ballet, ...

A travel blog entry by globedecker
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... have been a tiring experience as I don't think one person was awake on the minibus back to Cape Town. That evening we headed to a tourist restaurant, Mama Africa, where they play traditional music. The service was horrendous and the food was OK. I got a ...

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... than a dollar!) whereas in China and Nepal wine was either nonexistent or very expensive for bad wine from Great Wall vineyards. South Africa has incredibly fantastic peanut butter here too, amazing. The traffic here is like home, which is to say, ...

A travel blog entry by charmedlife
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... whether I saw baboons, zebras, penguins, rock dassies or ostrich the views were fantastic and the van full of fun folks. I hated to leave Africa, but was excited to head to Australia.....can't wait to come back to explore more of this amazing continent.

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