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Langebaan Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Langebaan, South Africa
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Back to School with a little bit of travelling....
This is a top pick! ... most amazing places to observe...to watch the way people interact... the intricacies of the dialogue, the references to new and old South Africa, and which one of the speaker believes was better. The only problem that we have as travelers is that we ...
Wild west coast
This is a top pick! ... had in Langebaan. Cheers Nig! Our first port of call in Langebaan was Pearly's on the beach. Situated right on the Langebaan lagoon they have a wonderful view of the lagoon where you can lazily spend the afternoon watching the action with a beer ...
Southern African Large Telescope
There are about 18 observatories at the South African Astronomical Observatories, 2 of them are English scopes and we also share the newest and largest one SALT. SALT has 91 mirrors all joined to make one big mirror and 13 meters up from the mirrors is ...
The terrors
When we were going outside to do some reading, I started to read to dad and he said 'oh there is a tick on my leg'. I ran over to Iain and told him so we went to get the tick card out of the medical box. It pulled the tick off. A few days later I picked ...
Fossils
At the fossil place there were loads of animal bones piled up and one of them was a giant short necked giraffe twice as tall as a human and a four tusked elephant. These animals existed millions of years ago and were drowned in a big flood. There was ...
Fantastic food....
Fiona Hello again! Well, we are now in South Africa, currently having a lovely time in Cape Town. After Tanzania we spent a couple of weeks travelling from Johannesburg via the Garden Route, the wine region and the west coast. We have been ...
Strandloper
Een daguitstapje naar Langebaan, zo'n 125KM up the West Coast voor een ambachtelijk bereid 10-gangen vismenu. En als een niet-viseter als ondergetekende die 10 gangen vol kan maken wil dat waarschijnlijk wel iets zeggen over de ...
South Africa!
The final border crossing... Quick and efficient...how dull. Strange feeling of happiness and sadness...promise muscled I'll do this again...perhaps next time taking more time! No time to think to much as its 13 degrees, blowing a gale and raining...Erm ...
Start of the West Coast
This is a top pick! ... photo. We watched then for a bit with the Buchnells. The estuary was divided into 3 parts. Park 1 being the mouth in Langebaan where watersport etc was allowed. The 2nd part, the middle, was for the sail boats and the last part was only ...
The West Coast
... holiday resort. There has been one notable highlight though - a foray to the very excellent fossil excavation & museum near Langebaan. They're excavating what 5m years ago was a bend in a river. In a couple of calamitous events vast numbers of ...
Holiday Start Day 4
What a wonderful evening last night was. I thought I was going to fall asleep right there at the table in Pearley's! But by the time we got back I had my second wind and we sat chatting till late night (well 2200) which was loads of fun. ...
Jet skiing is for WINNERS
Hello weekend! Saturday means jet skiing in Langebaan! 2 hour drive what what! We left at about 10 am and drove through Cape Town and up the east coast. It was really nice to get out of Muizenberg and see more of the surrounding area. Its very useful to ...
Holiday Day 3 Visiting Richard and Claire
... it is possible to BBQ fish, so all is not lost! Langebaan is a town in the Western Cape province of South Africa on the eastern shore of Langebaan Lagoon. Langebaan is situated 120 km north of Cape Town, just off the R27, about 28km from Vredenburg and ...
Winding down the trip
... who you used to know, but 40+ years later. He is well known in the community and has organized a small party to watch South Africa play Ireland later today. Needless to say, we will be supporting Ireland. We just had breakfast and are heading out for a ...
Ontdek je plekje, Griekse sferen en Kaapstad
... tripje, ik had weer eens een conferentie in een mooi oord. Dit keer was het bij Club Mykonos, een 'griekse stijl' vakantieoord in Langebaan, een uurtje buiten Kaapstad. We zouden onszelf niet zijn als we er lui voor de 4 dagen heen zouden vliegen, dus de ...
In Langebaan
... where we had our breakfast. After breakfast we visited various beaches and we drove through the bushveld- very traditional vegetation in South Africa. We saw a few buck and were also met with the rather nasty surprise of spotting a Puff Adder- A very, ...
Langebaan
... cycling day in my opinion....a really nice road with just a few hills (that I can remember). About 7km outside of Langebaan we bumped into 2 of the local traffic police doing spot checks. It's encounters like this that are making this journey ...
Kite Boarding Mecca
... but hasn't had a chance to really give it a shot. So, off we went in search of some serious air! :) Langebaan is a "surfer town"...without surfing and a get-a-way town for people in Cape Town. We took daily walks looking for ...
Tactical Flying
VFR Tactical Flying in Cessna 208's: During those days the tactical bits of the course fell after the Wings Test and we completed a week flying 2 Cessna Caravans around the Karoo, sleeping in different towns each evening. What absolute fun we ...
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