Oh The Things You’ll See
Just a collection of random trip thoughts and experiences. When we arrived at our first camp in the bush, the host was showing us our room when a spider crawled…
Africa Videos
Our internet access was intermittent and slow when we had it. Uploading a post could take an hour. So we didn’t upload any videos while we were on our trip.…
Coming Home
On our last morning in Franschhoek we enjoyed breakfast in the dining room of our farmhouse and then our driver took us to the Cape Town airport, about an hour…
Franschhoek
The final stop of our trip was in a town called Franschhoek, which translates to “French Corner” from Afrikaans. Franschhoek was settled by Europeans starting in 1688 with the Huguenots…
Cape of Good Hope
On our last morning in Cape Town we had planned to hire a driver to take us to the Cape of Good Hope and then onwards to our final stop…
Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa
This place is rocking the art world right now. Mainly because of the setting. Just looking at you’d never know this was an art museum. There was an old grain…
Table Mountain
We had the chance to visit Table Mountain. Our first day in Cape Town was quite foggy and the mountain was closed, but the next day dawned sunnier and clearer.…
Kirstenbosch Gardens
High on our list of places to see in Cape Town was the world-famous Kirstenbosch Gardens. In 2015, the International Garden Tourism Awards Body declared Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens the International…
Onward to Cape Town
After a truly thrilling week in Zambia and Botswana it was time to leave the bush. This was one of the most interesting and enjoyable weeks we’ve ever had on…
