Cape Town, a few sights and sounds
Here are is a gallery of images, sights and sounds of Cape Town, the Mother City, Parliamentary Capital of South Africa and one of the coolest cities on the planet....
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Grahamstown, Academia in the Eastern Cape
Grahamstown is a very odd place. The middle of Africa is hardly the place that you would expect to find deep academia, but as I rolled out of the Karoo...
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Highland Lodge, a Little Oasis in the Stormberg
Eco Travel Africa Rating: The Eastern Cape is an odd landscape of high desert, alpine highlands and the soft hill country that falls away from the southern Drakensberg. Without the...
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Amazian River Lodge, Underberg
Eco Travel Africa Rating: The Umzimkulu River begins its journey in the highlands of the Drakensberg, reaching the ocean near Port Shepstone. In between it meanders through the hills and...
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Spionkop Lodge: A History Unto Itself
Eco Travel Africa Rating: My visit to Spioenkop Battle Site on the KwaZulu Natal Battlefield Route included a stay as the guest of Raymond and Lynette Heron, owners of the...
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KwaZulu/Natal South Coast
The South Coast, not what you would expect… There is a lot about South Africa that is distinctly un-African in character. I once read a rather caustic quip that the...
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Arriving in South Africa
I was pretty lucky with my flight from US to South Africa. From Chicago to Munich, and from Munich to SA, I had a row of seats to myself, which,...
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Golfing in South Africa and Zimbabwe
The two great golfing nation of southern Africa – South Africa and Zimbabwe – both offer an unusual variety of golfing opportunities with some extremely unusual settings. From the Elephant...
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A quick look at the beaches of Cape Town
Overview of Cape Town Beaches There are some 30 beaches accessible from the main Cape Town metropolitan area, situated in either the Table Bay area, or on the Atlantic or...
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Cultural Sites and Museums in Cape Town
City Bowl This is the name of the heart of Cape Town, the old town, and the Central Business District. It is pressed between Table Mountain, Signal Hill and the...