The Pinnacle
Travel Blogs from Cape Town
Cape Town
We wake up to a glorious sunny warm day and decide to trek up to Table Mountain, along with every other man and his dog! We snare a park some how not too far away and then join the very long line for the cable car. It does move reasonably quickly though & in about 20 mins we are on our way up in the rotating, rather large cable car. Up the top and the views are spectacular, we walk around and realise we are getting ...
The Cape of good hope
We started our day with a lovely breakfast at our bed and breakfast. we hit the road to start our drive around the cape. We started on the eastern side. We drive through Kaulk bay and fish hoek. These two tows were very cute and full of character. There were several antique shops and stores along the ocean boulevard. Soon we reached Simons town and boulder beach. This place is famous for the ...
Winter Face
We began the first leg of our journey quite early that morning and had breakfast along the way. After approximately 4 hours of driving shared between 2 drivers we hit our first photo opportunity on van Rhyn's Pass.
A tree-laden truck laboured up the pass which overlooked a vast green plain which has a rather arid appearance in summer.
Then we headed to our first overnight stop in ...
Conference dinner
... evening – drum beats,
dancing singing and food!! Everyone had their face decorated and this added to
the surreal effect – one lady at our table told us she felt ethereal! My hotel
has a shuttle service so I was able to phone ahead and a car was waiting to take
me back to my hotel safe and sound. Now for the big pack up and tomorrow I will
go to the first session and then head for Knysna.
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Revin in Africa. Part 1
... zijn, zitten we op de altijd discrete hop-on hop-off bus, ontdekken we met onze huurauto de Cape Peninsula, geniet Evi van het opblaasbadje op het terras, vindt Re het tijd om haar nagels te laten doen en volbrengt Vincent zijn missie om een pick-up (bakkie) te kopen; een Isuzu bakkie uit 2003 met een 3 liter turbo diesel. Ja dat is nodig, want deze bak is zo groot dat ie waarschijnlijk al bij de afrit van de A10 klem zou komen te ...