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Travel Blogs from Kempton Park
Mossel Bay
... to process. Lucky me. Thursday, we went to the Cango Caves in Oudtshoorn. The caves were incredibly huge and beautiful, with large stalactites and stalagmites that connected and then grew wider. We did the adventure tour which meant that after the first two largest caves, we were crawling through small openings, climbing up and through tunnels. It was nerve racking at points, but incredibly fun. On our way home, we stopped off at ...
Cape Town
Sigh...my last day in Africa is here. We had our last breakfast together as a group and I exchanged goodbyes with the majority of them. Maddy, 2 other girls and myself left our hotel around 9am and started the day with some shopping. We visited several boutiques but I refrained from purchasing clothes. My favourite stop of the morning was walking around a large craft market. We met up with Jon and Nick and had a ...
Recent history and amazing people
... books, magazines, and newspapers, and they provided him with lots of tobacco in hopes he would smoke himself to death. Even once he was released he was kept under house arrest until his death in 1978.
We heard about how Nelson Mandela's wife snuck his new born baby onto the island (where babies were not allowed) so Mandela could see him and one of the guards helped her and that was the start of a good relationship ...
Cape Town, South Africa!
... the home stay, but also I found myself feeling slightly uncomfortable and very at home at the same time. In being away from an entirely westernized country for a while, getting back into the rhythm of caffeine, shopping and even the English language was interesting. Not surprisingly, I found myself shopping at a store that sold products from India (as I have done in every other country-I love India). We then decided to partake in a traditional ...
Tales From the Mother City
... there always seems to be a layer of white clouds resting on top, which they call the Table Cloth.
Nelson Mandela is a God here and just about everything is named after him. Desmond Tuttu is no fading star either, his church is in the middle of town and we hope to go to a service there.(The man just turned 80 and his BFF, the Dalhi Lama, was not granted a Visa into SA because of their trade relations with China.) World Cup futbal was held here last ...
Location
Other places to stay in Kempton Park
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Southern Sun O.R Tambo International Hotel
Jones Road, Kempton Park | 3 star hotelfrom $185 -
Peermont D'oreale Grande at Emperor's Palace
64 Jones Road, Kempton Park | 5 star hotelfrom $224 -
InterContinental Johannesburg OR Tambo Airport
68.7 metres from International Arrivals Hall, Kempton Park | 4 star hotelfrom $400 -
Peermont Metcourt at Emperors Palace
64 Jones Road, Kempton Park | 3 star hotelfrom $91 -
Garden Court O.R. Tambo Airport Hotel
2 Hulley Road, Isando Ext. 3, Kempton Park | Hotelfrom $109 -
Safari Club
68 Pomona Rd, Kempton Park | Hotelfrom $81 -
Hotel Villa Toscania
Cnr Oak Ave And Jubilee St., Kempton Park | Hotelfrom $53 -
Someplace Else
N2 Kwazulu-Natal 3915 Kwambonambi, Kempton Park | Hotel -
Sunrock Guesthouse
11 Park Street, Kempton Park | 3 star hotelfrom $91 -
Protea Hotel OR Tambo Airport
Corner York & Gladiator Street, Kempton Park | 4 star hotelfrom $86 -
Peermont Metcourt Suites at Emperors Palace
64 Jones Road, Kempton Park | 3 star hotelfrom $105 -
Life Hotels Airport Johannesburg
Corner of Kempton and Bosch Street, Kempton Park | 3 star hotelfrom $58