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Cape Town - Our Kind of Town
A Travel Blog entry by gudell from Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
... through Camps Bay area we embark on winding roads to Hout Bay. This is a working fishing town about 30 minutes from Cape Town. What a wonderful place. From there, it was up to Chapman’s Peak Road, which is a toll road (28 Rand) ...
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Cape Town Day 1
A Travel Blog entry by zollarck from Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
... at the moment. I hope everyone had great a Thanksgiving! I guess our Thanksgiving meal was at the Joberg airport last night waiting for our flight to Cape Town; a club sandwich drenched in some weird ranch sauce and a few castle lights (local beer, ...
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Cape Town - The City
A Travel Blog entry by nimitandneesha from Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
... had a rotating floor, so everyone got a good view. And with the unfortunately volcanic eruption, most European tourists couldn't come to Cape Town, so in effect, no lines. Gorgeous views of the city and the oceans. They also had a race ...
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Not - Out of Africa
A Travel Blog entry by gudell from Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
... walk over (which we ended up doing A LOT) and get all of the bad news delivered to us face to face. Interesting, that Cape Town ‘the bad’ still lingers as they keep the office door locked and the Qatar ladies must buzz you in every time ...
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Day 1 in Africa, I am jet-lagged
A Travel Blog entry by 90daywalkabout from Cape Town, South Africa
... make the semis. I put the guest relations guy to work to see what he can put together and decide to walk the nearby streets of Cape Town. Getting reading to go for a walk down the street, I look at my backpack. It emits a smell strong enough that I ...
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Over the Indian Ocean to Africa
A Travel Blog entry by 90daywalkabout from Cape Town, South Africa
After canceling my African trip to the Serengeti, I head to Cape Town instead without a hotel scheduled, a rental car or any type of map or agenda on what I will do there. It is a nice way to travel and I have grown accustomed to having fun getting ...
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Hello summer!
A Travel Blog entry by travelingdiva from Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
... passengers, and the bus was very new, not a scratch or flame to be seen. Each passenger had about 4 rows to ourselves. Surely Cape Town doesn't count as Africa? But then I arrived at the civic center and was assured it was Africa by the super friendly ...
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June 23: Day- A storm rolls into South Africa
A Travel Blog entry by 90daywalkabout from Cape Town, South Africa
... The gal at the Surf Shop is Jacqui. She and her husband own the Surf Shop. She is from Zimbabwe. Her husband is from Cape Town. He is the local Land Rover competition winner of several years. Being a Land Rover owner, I am aware of the hard-core ...
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The PCH of Africa
A Travel Blog entry by nimitandneesha from Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
... on here, so hopefully I can write most of it in the next hour or so while I am in Ho Chi Minh Airport. So after getting to Cape Town at 10pm on the 15th, we headed to our hotel for some shut eye (South African Airways decided to oversell/bump us from our ...
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Robben Island & Table Mountain
A Travel Blog entry by michellem143 from Cape Town, South Africa
Hi all, We have been so lucky with the weather. Many people come to Cape Town hoping to visit Robben Island and hiking up Table Mountain but due to the winds are unable to do so. Robben Island: http://www.robben-island.org.za/ Table Mountain: ...
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Day One - Into Africa
A Travel Blog entry by bryce330 from Cape Town, South Africa
... quickly. Then I killed an hour or so shopping at the airport before catching my flight to Cape Town. I'm staying at the Westin Grand Arabella in Cape Town, which is pretty nice if somewhat generic, like every other Westin. Tomorrow, ...
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"Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?"
A Travel Blog entry by andymo99 from Cape Town, South Africa
... fisticuffs 3) Buenos Aires cabbie pulls a currency switcheroo to steal 18 pesos 2) LJ temporarily breaks her father's camera 1) Cape Town mugging Well, hopefully we have all that nonsense behind us. Really, you wouldn't think we were seasoned ...
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The Second Prettiest City in the World
A Travel Blog entry by claraz8 from Cape Town, South Africa
Our hotel in Cape Town was really nice, another Westin. When we arrived to the airport it was raining, which surprised us. On this trip we haven't had a lot of rain. In fact, the clouds covered the famous view of Table Mountain which presides over Cape ...
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Table Mountain
A Travel Blog entry by kenhuocj from Cape Town, South Africa
Table Mountain is synonymous to Cape Town, described nad painted by the early voyageurs from Portugal and Holland. in 1652 Jand Van Ribbeck under the auspices of the Dutch East India Company, arrived in three ship sin Table Bay. We saw it from the plane ...
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Last African Evening!
A Travel Blog entry by kytravels from Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
So back at the Cape Town Westin we befriended the owner of the wine shop in the hotel. He was a really cool guy who actually lived in NY for 18 years. He opened a bottle of champagne and we all shared it. Then he set us up with dinner ...
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Leaving Zambia
A Travel Blog entry by travelingdiva from Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
... with my boarding card. I ran through security to stand in a long line for boarding the flight. Another crappy seat and packed plane. Cape Town is as great as it was last week, but ridiculously hot. My transfer driver told me they have been having a heat ...
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Back to the Cape Peninsula
A Travel Blog entry by kenhuocj from Cape Town, South Africa
We had our Boerewors and Steaks, so breakfast was clearing up what's left in our Cottage fridge. Hand in the keys and buy some Organic Rooibos harvested from the hills above us fine gifts for our friends back home, and not Kilo problem when ...
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34.21 S - Cape Point, Table Mountain NP
A Travel Blog entry by 110daysdown from Cape Point, Western Cape, South Africa
... to linger downtown, we hopped the cab to what was a fantastic and informative museum. Enough about Jo'Berg, though. Arriving in Cape Town, particularly after taking a luxury overnight train, was like night and day. We walked from the train station to the ...
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