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Just up the road from Observatory, we found the Rhodes Memorial. A little gem of a place! Cecil John Rhodes, founder of the famous De Beers Diamond Company and British Empire builder had a big influence on the way Southern Africa was carved up politically in the nineteenth century. He was Prime Minister of the Cape…
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We got an even closer look at the Cape the next day after picking up a cheap hire car from the unknown (to us anyway) Atlantic Car Hire. The plan was to explore the peninsula for the day and drop off the car in Stellenbosch, centre of the South Africa’s wine industry and some 40…
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In our previous visit to Cape Town we had taken the cable car to the top of the 1000 metre Table Mountain (and back down again). This time, we promised ourselves, we would walk to the top and catch the cable car down. Today was a public holiday and even minibuses would be few and…
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Table Mountain was next on our agenda but that was tomorrow’s challenge in the meantime we had to get back and eat! Largely because of its multiculturalism Cape Town is considered the gastronomic capital of Southern Africa. There are lotss of restaurants and cafes of all descriptions and price tags. In Observatory there were several…
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Another pretty interesting guy whom unfortunately we didn’t get around to meet was Nelson Mandela. We did however get to meet someone who served time with him on Robben island a small former prison island 11 kilometres north west of Cape Town. Eugene was his name and he served seven years on Robben Island for…
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Back in the guest house we learned what we had suspected that morning, Andre was a ‘know it all’ who liked to give you the benefit of his wisdom and experience in as many words as possible regardless of whether you asked for it or not. In fact listening to him politely, trying hard to…
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You know Cape Town is really a very beautiful place. It’s up there with the likes of Sydney, Rio de Janeiro and San Francisco as places of natural beauty. With the Atlantic Ocean on its western and northern sides and the brooding presence of Cradle Mountain to the south, it’s in a great location. Of…
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What was in regular service were the minibus taxis. If you have being paying attention you’d remember that I’ve mentioned these before. These are generally run by black or more often or not in Cape Town, coloured South Africans and are mostly used by both these groups of people. They are of course found in…
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We left J’burg for Cape Town the next day via a domestic South African airways flight. We had been to Cape Town before but we had felt that hadn’t done it justice, so this visit was to ‘see’ the place properly. Last time we had stayed in a pleasant Bed & Breakfast near the city…
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Our first stop was the “poor end of town” which in size is the smallest part of Soweto but also by far the most densely populated. We were taken into a small two room “house”. I say house loosely because it was no bigger than two decent size tin sheds found in any Australian suburb.…
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The main reason that we had elected to stay in J’burg the extra night was to see Soweto. Soweto you say! Why would anyone want to see such a notoriously dangerous place? Well, most tourists visiting South Africa regardless of budget have minimal contact with black South Africans. Very few get to visit black townships…
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The hostel itself was an old large rambling single storey house with hand me down furniture spread haphazardly around the place,………… lounge chairs, torn dining chairs and card tables that had all seen better days and a large garden. Sounds all right doesn’t it? Well I did miss out one important fact. It backed onto…
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It was as the guy from Budget was driving away that a rather worrying thought crossed my mind. What if he wasn’t a Budget employee and had just easily hoisted a car from two unsuspecting and naïve tourists! The fact that he was standing in the Budget car park with a Budget jacket might mean…
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We found the Isandlwana battlefield quite eerie and moving. Monuments and unmarked graves in the form of stone cairns (piles of small rocks and stones for anyone that doesn’t know what a cairn is) dot the base of the hill, marking spots where they believe certain events or deaths took place. There is a memorial…
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