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Work in Cape Town

A travel blog entry by travellingadam

Today I was visiting the hotels in Cape Town so up early so i can make my first appointment in the water front.

Cape Town is very easy to get around as long as you have a map. Today I am viewing waterfront properties mostly top end with a couple of 3 stars in there.

Water front is buzzing. Loads to do and a restaurant every few …

Township, Lion's Head & Rude African Women!!!

A travel blog entry by danib1985

... aren't received too well here!!! He was a lively skinny black man who shook my hand and said that from my name he expected a man!!! Great! So I was the first in the minibus van type thing and he was telling me about names and what did my name mean and I said I thought it was French and he said that his name Tabyani or something meant happiness in English (or so his mum had told him) I was thinking mate, I'm English and it doesn't ******* mean that but I didnt have the heart ...

"hey, we wanna be your friends!"

A travel blog entry by sarah_burkel

I haven't blogged in awhile and a few more exciting things have happened since!

1. Hillary Clinton visits UWC
On Wednesday of this past week (nearly a week ago - sorry!), Hillary Clinton came to visit our school and we all received invitations to attend her speech! It was very exciting to see her in South Africa and she was such a phenomenal speaker. Whatever her political views, I give her a lot of respect. I think she is a very strong woman, especially to stand ...

Tales from Table Mountain

A travel blog entry by kateinjapan

... and weather conditions. We joined hundreds of other tourists in a long line and slowly inched our way to the ticket booth. It took about an hour until we boarded the cable car, wouldn't have been bad except for the girl standing behind me in line stood SO close. I'm talking centimeters away from my backpack. Argh! The cable car was different than others I've been on (and I've been on a lot, the Japanese love cable cars) because it rotates ...

South Africa Part 2

A travel blog entry by nedk

... and I was having second thoughts about not taking the tour, but I continued on.....bad mistake. �We then stopped at a township; a township is what you have seen on TV, a ton of aluminum shanties and much poverty. �They offered a tour through the township, with the proceeds of the tour going to help those living there. �It was still very nice out so I decided to move forward with my plan to stop at Camps Bay. �As we were going up over the pass to head down to the ...

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