Sunday was the day we left Stellenbosch and made our way to Upington. The arrangement was for us meet with […]
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Director of Want a Headshot? Partner at katin images, a travel photography business.African shoestrings – South Africa Day Fourty one – Stellenbosch
One of these future expeditions was the now confirmed Kalahari trip that left in three days time from a place […]
African shoestrings – South Africa Day Fourty – Stellenbosch
The following day we ‘jumped ship’ and found a little apartment just out of town. Not that there was anything […]
African shoestrings – South Africa Day Thirty-nine – Stellenbosch wine route
What the Stumble Inn did have and what backpackers all have is plenty of information in the form of a notice board […]
African shoestrings – South Africa Day Thirty-eight – Stellenbosch
It was time to leave Cape Town, not as we thought at the time forever, but for a few days. […]
African shoestrings – South Africa Day Thirty-seven – Rhodes Memorial Cape Town
Just up the road from Observatory, we found the Rhodes Memorial. A little gem of a place! Cecil John Rhodes, founder […]
African shoestrings – South Africa Day Thirty-six – Cape of Good Hope
We got an even closer look at the Cape the next day after picking up a cheap hire car from […]
African shoestrings – South Africa Day Thirty-five – Table Mountain Cape Town
In our previous visit to Cape Town we had taken the cable car to the top of the 1000 metre […]
African shoestrings – South Africa Day Thirty-four – Cape Town
Table Mountain was next on our agenda but that was tomorrow’s challenge in the meantime we had to get back […]
African shoestrings – South Africa Day Thirty-three – Robben Island Cape Town
Another pretty interesting guy whom unfortunately we didn’t get around to meet was Nelson Mandela. We did however get to […]
African shoestrings – South Africa Day Thirty-two – Cape Town
Back in the guest house we learned what we had suspected that morning, Andre was a ‘know it all’ who […]
African shoestrings – South Africa Day Thirty-one – Cape Muslim quarter Cape Town
You know Cape Town is really a very beautiful place. It’s up there with the likes of Sydney, Rio de […]
African shoestrings – South Africa Day Thirty – Cape Town
What was in regular service were the minibus taxis. If you have being paying attention you’d remember that I’ve mentioned […]
African shoestrings – South Africa Day Twenty-nine
We left J’burg for Cape Town the next day via a domestic South African airways flight. We had been to […]
African shoestrings – South Africa Day Twenty-eight
Next stop was the first of two shebeens. A shebeen is basically a township bar that until recently were illegal […]