Tranquility Camps Bay

... speeds up huge sand dunes. Somersaulting down huge sand dunes like a little kid and not worrying about all the sand everywhere on your body. Getting one of the best tours by one of the most entertaining and energetic Japanese women in the desert. Hearing all the hoopla about the biggest eating contest of game meat for weeks when in Cape Town, and upon arrival find out that the restaurant isn’t all you can eat game meat. Eating a variety of game ...

We decided to book a tour to the regions' vineyards and were met at 8.45am by our guide Miranda.
Todays trip saw us taken on a 30 min drive to Stellenbosch which is the oldest town in South Africa and home to Villiera vineyard our first winetasting stop.
After a short guided tour around the manufacturing area and a detailed explanation of how wine and champagne is processed we were taken to the wine tasting room and ...

... about how kind and generous Dash, Pamela, Ayana, Dyami, and Domani were, not just with drawings from the kids, many hugs, and a delicious dinner, but their welcoming spirit made me feel at ease in their home as soon as I arrived. They felt like long-lost friends! And I felt like Santa Clause (or Father Christmas, as they call him here), as Marti and Bob loaded me up with an entire duffel worth of stuff to take for them! It was truly a ...

... s called "kloofing" here. when we got to that pool (it was the 3rd pool) there was a group of about 20 tourists already in the pools and hanging around. that was a bummer so we decided to hike on to the 5th pool and work our way back. the trails were marked with yellow footprints that had been painted on the rocks/boulders on the trails. sometimes it was easy to go off-path because the paths were not that defined, especially once we got into the canyons. at one point, 2 ...

... was to get into isreal. It was scary yet hilarious. Once inside if was very similar to temple at home except everyone was blonde haired and blue eyed. Afterwards, we wandered around the waterfront talking about all of the food we wished we could eat and hopped a cab back to Langa to go to our afternoon classes. im tired and hungry and have to leave and will write more later.

... Tour of the Company Gardens and surrounding historical buildings Whilst in the Company's Garden, you can explore the South African Museum with Planetarium, the National Gallery, the Jewish Museum and the Parliament, where South Africa's politicians meet. At the bottom end of the park stands the Anglican St. Georges Cathedral and next to it, the South African Library. In the Company Gardens enjoy a meal or cup of tea at the tea room. Visit the aviary ...

Cape Town was the final destination for our 5 week overland excursion through Africa. We said good-bye to ATC and relished a bed instead of a tent, laundry, and best of all no more flapping our plates. After every meal for the last month in camp we found ourselves flapping our plates, bowls, cups, silverware, pots and pans bone dry - every morning, every afternoon, every evening. There was great discussion along the way of flapping techniques and how to minimize what you ...

We got our tickets today!! Yeah!! Now we need to sort out the incorrect airport transfer details. Someone mixed up the SAA and LAN Peru flight info. Nearly a big 'oeps' as we land 23:25 on day 1 of the tour... No room for errors, thank you.

... misconception is that the Cape of Good Hope is the southernmost point of Africa. Check a map sometime and you'll find Cape Agulhas is further south. This came as a bit of a rude shock on our second day in Cape Town as we did a tour of the Cape and Stellenbosch, a picturesque winery town with beautiful old English and Dutch style buildings. As we stood at the Cape of Good Hope lighthouse enjoying what we thought was ...

... Africa and Europe as a cameraman, and that he was on his day off and taking the train to go shopping. I tried to ask him what his favorite restaurant was in South Africa, but he said he preferred to cook at home. I asked him about his schooling, and he said after high school he went into the military before going to a college for a year that specialized in media studies, which is how he ended up with the job as a cameraman. He got off a few stops ...