Cape Town, South Africa Travel Blogs

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 of ...

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 ...

A travel blog entry by stephen.j.booth
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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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... 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 ...

A travel blog entry by jonclark2000
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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 ...

A travel blog entry by stephen.j.booth
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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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... 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 ...

A travel blog entry by petenic360
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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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... 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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... 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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... balcony 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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... and 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 Art, ...

A travel blog entry by madman96
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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 ...

A travel blog entry by jonclark2000
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... with her twin sister next to Dixon and I in NYU housing the summer after Junior year in college and is now working for Maersk in Cape Town) being all too helpful! We hit up the Avis and find our car, our hero and our new best friend Chico! Chico is a ' ...

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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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... 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't ...

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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 ...

A travel blog entry by stephen.j.booth
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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, very ...

A travel blog entry by charmedlife
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... political views. It is such a complex place that in 2 months we only have a very basic understanding of its history. They call South Africa the world with in a country. It really is, both because of its people and its landscape. In 2 months we have ...

A travel blog entry by audreyandjack
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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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... 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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Friday 20th April - Johannesburg to Cape Town Another early wakeup call and off to the airport at 7am. Our flight didn't leave til 11 o'clock so we had a couple of hours wait at the airport. We arrived in Cape Town around 1pm. When we went to get our ...

A travel blog entry by peteandmandy
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... of the area. When the rain eased off a bit we wondered over to a cafe where I tried the Rooibos tea, this is a speciality South African tea that is very tasty.. After our tea break we headed out to see the gardens proper. Fynbos is one of the 6 ...

A travel blog entry by jonclark2000
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C... We have reached our final goal...Cape Town, South Africa! We have waved goodbye to the overland truck and are back on our own two feet (Adrian minus one flip flop after it was eaten by a cheetah) for our final adventure involving the Southern coast of ...

A travel blog entry by ad_n_caz
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... a green salad. She also brought out a large baked traditional Xhosa bread. It was about 20 inches in diameter and at least a foot high. Audrey, Mame Fefe and her sister Stay tuned for our last few days in Cape Town and our final goodbyes to Africa.

A travel blog entry by audreyandjack
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