Skydive Cape Town

... is. Being in South Africa meant that I needed to do some obvious things (well obvious to me). Go on a safari? Yes. Skydive over Cape Town? Yes. Get in a shark cage surrounded by Great Whites? Yes. South Africa seems to have a lot of exciting things ...

... winery tour, 'tasting' as many wines and cheeses as possible in 4 different vineyards. Ofcourse we're both now experts :). It was then onto Cape Town for our final night out with the group, where we had a lovely meal out on Long Street. Cape Town was in a ...

... pile 16 people into a 7 person van with no air conditioning.  Cozy.  Did I mention that the van was headed to Skydive Cape Town?  So there we were 14 Americans, 1 Canadian and 1 German, piled into what can only be compared to a clown van, ...

... so it was really cool to get everyone to loosen up a little. Woke up in bed and that's what counts! It's a rainy day in Cape Town but somehow I woke up and went to another market at 10am. Well I was there physically, but my mental state was still a ...

... pack a bag just in case, we stuffed it fulled of just everything, slung it on our backs and left Worcester without a map. Cape Town was pretty amazing place.  The first day we hit the beach, splashed around a little bit and walked toward the ...

... often compared to the Grand Canyon in Arizona. In South Africa, we enjoyed going out to the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Town. Our Dragoman Overland tour officially finished April 20th and we will now remain in Cape Town until April 25th when we return to ...

... KFC! An easy night ahead me thinks and probably not a late one as everyone is suffering today but that's it in a nutshell. In Cape Town for a fortnight but might take off up the Garden Route at the weekend with Eimer and Sarah before they go home (sad ...

Manchester to Amsterdam, Amsterdam to Cape Town – I had now arrived. Just as I had imagined, my lift had arrived with my name on a cardboard sign and a huge grin spread across my face, I was here living my dream! I was quickly bundled into a ...

... time to kill.  I met my group in the Union, we found our bus, and were on our way.  We had to drive out of Cape Town, which really isn't that big of a city, in order to get to the Langa township we were visiting.  I knew when we were ...

... to jump, I needed to keep my head back and enjoy.  He pointed out some of the sights as it was a pretty amazing few over Cape Town.  We climbed to 9000 feet and then the door was opened.  I had to sit on Donovans lap and try to squeeze my ...

... and broccoli) so the next logical step I figured was to throw myself out of a plane 9000ft above the city of Cape Town. For months before the trip, knowing how many adrenaline fuelled opportunities awaited me in South Africa, I had been worried that my ...

... I had more fun doing this than I did actually sand boarding.  After 4 hours of sand boarding, it was finally time to skydive.   When we got to the skydiving place, we had to wait until the people before us jumped and then it was our ...

... to go and teach in NZ for a few months next year. So this adventure is ending - onto the next one, volunteering with Vicky in Cape Town. Loads still to look forward to. Can't WAIT to be home at Christmas, will be home for a month now so loads of time to ...

Hey Mutha Funksters, Just a real Quick one to say that CAPE TOWN turned out to be not too bad......if your into that sort of thing.....i met a lot of people ....and drank a lot of beer.......this is always quite good fun .....but it never really leaves ...

... and went a over t into the desert planting sand everywhere, up my nose, in my ears, everywhere! not happy, time for a more leisurely persuit drinking and eating! so we did just that and enjoyed the comforts of a hotel for the last time til Cape ...

... the 20 minute plane ride up, which is a bit tricky as your sat on the floor and there's very little room. The Plettenberg bay skydive is billed as being (one of!) the most scenic drop zones in the world, and I can definitely understand why. Words cannot ...

... canopy of the trees. The walkways were Indiana Jones style rope bridges and pretty high up...and, well it seems neither a skydive or a bungee jump has helped Nick to conquer his fear of heights! While he gripped to the side of the bridges and ...

... ;    The boys had their skydive booked for the morning, so I planned for some time alone shopping. Unfortunately their skydive was cancelled due to bad weather. I still went off and did my shopping and arranged to meet the boys for lunch. I ...

... feel like I am in africa and I can not wait to be picked up on Saturday to see some big paws! Tomorrow I might do a skydive or paragliding depending on the weather - everything is possible here in SA unless you run out of money which is also very easily ...

... forward to having time off where i can go into the city and walk around seeing different sites, and going to the zoo! and maybe do a skydive over the sydney beaches! sorry this post has been so messy, but that is a bit of news about what i have been up ...