Tag: South Africa
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Cape Town Kwassa Kwassa
To round it all off, a few days in Cape Town – museums, shopping, sightseeing (no, I do not know why there is a sculpture with Bart Simpson heads coming out of it in the city centre)… …and just like that, my month in Africa was over. I had a superb time, really really enjoyed…
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Cape Peninsula Tour
There’s so much to do and see in and around Cape Town and I missed out on loads of stuff. The Robben Island tour, because I hadn’t anticipated having to book a week in advance just to catch the ferry out there (huh?) and the gay-couples’-all-u-can-drink-… uh, I mean, connoisseur gourmet wine tasting tour, which…
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Pretty as a Picture
Cape Town is photogenic to such an extent, if it were a human, it would be George Clooney (analogy – fail?) The city curves and sprawls along the ocean, up the mountainside and awards amazing views from all angles, so with every step you take in and around Cape Town, you get a peek of…
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Your obvious Whale of a Time pun here
Hermanus is pretty in its own right but mainly known for whale watching, which we did – as you can clearly see in this picture: I know you can’t tell from the picture, but I swear it was doing this:
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Remembered the Wine?
Well, yes, in fact we did remember the wine. And drink it, too! Also: pies and the last muffin in the shop.
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Vertigo vs. Views
Knysna is one of many places on the coast that inevitably comes with a price tag. A drive along the Garden Route is pure, shameless property porn. “This house would have gone for so many million five years ago, now it would be impossible to buy a doorknob for that amount… etc” Understandable, considering this:…
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Nature’s Valley
What can I say – does what it says on the box… Love the furry little elephants (no, seriously)
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Over the Mountain, to the Sea
One more dirt road across a mountain pass… …dodging falling bits of scrap metal… …brought us to Plettenberg Bay, where we stayed in a holiday flat with an okay view: Plett also has stuff that has been washed away by floods. Except this time it’s a restaurant car park and the restaurant will likely be…
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Cango
Oudtshoorn was the first bigger town we came across. We visited the Cango Caves, where I sensibly (and chicken-ly) did the Standard Tour, while Helgart and Siobhan did the Adventure Tour, which I knew was a bad idea when I saw that the narrowest point is THIS narrow: Thanks, I’ll pass and just look at…
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Road Trippiness
As others have observed before me, Cape Town and surrounds isn’t Africa as we like to imagine it. These road trip pictures are more Route 66 than most would expect, right? Much as I complained about the rain and clouds, they made for some spectacular pictures. And just when we were really feeling the wholesome…