Vic falls & South Africa

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Matkaaja Vic falls & South Africa
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- 13.9.2023 klo 9.57
- ☀️ 16 °C
- Korkeus: 130 m
- Etelä-Afrikka Province of the Western Cape Swellendam -34.017825, 20.44709334°1’4” S 20°26’50” E
Päivä 11
Riversdale to L'Agulhas (most south)
13. syyskuuta 2023, Etelä-Afrikka ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C
We woke up this morning freezing cold, no lights or heating because of Load Shedding!
Drove to swellendam, lovely town with a lot of history and the prettiest church in South Africa. Tried to go shopping but all shops were still in darkness at 10am with electricity cuts.
Got to destination, most southerly point of Africa where the oceans meet and we of course had to drink in most southerly pub.
B&B we are in is again very different, this is a B&B! Strange for us but the view is great.
No whales again. Took a walk out in the dark ar 7pm, nothing to see so will be early night.
One positive from load shedding (power cuts) is that the stars are brilliant, never seen so many.
Off to Cape Town tomorrow.Lue lisää
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Matkaaja Vic falls & South Africa
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- 14.9.2023 klo 12.10
- 🌬 15 °C
- Korkeus: 6 m
- Etelä-Afrikka Province of the Western Cape Overstrand Silver Sands Stony Point -34.371975, 18.89310234°22’19” S 18°53’35” E
Päivä 12
Cape Town via Penquins
14. syyskuuta 2023, Etelä-Afrikka ⋅ 🌬 15 °C
Drove from L'Agulhas to Cape Town Airport via several renowned whale watching sites; Hermanus is world famous. After several hours of driving along coastal road we did not see a whale. Did stop at Betty's Bay where we found Penguins. Road from Betty's Bay to Gordon's Bay was stunning. All in we have driven over 1200 km.
Hotel in Cape Town Seapoint area is right on beach and great location, safe to walk out at night. Our room is on corner of building on right one below top floor where we see beach or signal Hill.Lue lisää
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Matkaaja Vic falls & South Africa
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- 15.9.2023 klo 10.27
- 🌬 15 °C
- Korkeus: 16 m
- Etelä-Afrikka Province of the Western Cape City of Cape Town De Waterkant Outer Basin -33.903633, 18.41955233°54’13” S 18°25’10” E
Päivä 13
Cape Town storm & V&A
15. syyskuuta 2023, Etelä-Afrikka ⋅ 🌬 15 °C
All night and most of day experienced a wild storm. Our planned trip to Robben Island was cancelled and we are now scheduled for Sunday.
Spent morning in V&A area. Its a major tourist area on old docks. Quite impressive, massive with 3 shopping malls, craft areas, hotels etc. We walked back against the wind, took over an hour, feet hurting! And can't have a bath!Lue lisää
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Matkaaja Vic falls & South Africa
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- 16.9.2023 klo 9.53
- ☁️ 13 °C
- Korkeus: 22 m
- Etelä-Afrikka Province of the Western Cape City of Cape Town De Waterkant Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art of Africa -33.908176, 18.42229133°54’29” S 18°25’20” E
Päivä 14
Bus tour and no table mountain
16. syyskuuta 2023, Etelä-Afrikka ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C
Bus tour today with walk around Bo Kaap area, very colourful. Table top mountain cable car closed due to high winds. Robben Island visit rescheduled twice, now may have to totally cancel!
Weather may be improving based on tonight's sunset.Lue lisää
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Matkaaja Vic falls & South Africa
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- 17.9.2023 klo 8.49
- ☁️ 13 °C
- Korkeus: 3 m
- Etelä-Afrikka Province of the Western Cape City of Cape Town De Waterkant Cape Town Clock Tower -33.906205, 18.42237933°54’22” S 18°25’21” E
Päivä 15
The last cheesecake ha ha
17. syyskuuta 2023, Etelä-Afrikka ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C
We had high hopes for today with good weather. But Cape Town has not been great. We have had 3 big letdowns; 1 no whales throughout the south coast, 2 no robben Island and 3 no table top mountain. We tried to get robben Island and table mountain in today but boat not running for 3rd day although it was calm and the cable car queue was huge with several days of people backlog.
Stayed in V&A area again, it's really impressive, I think the best Cape Town has to offer, there really isn't much else in the city.

Tonight we ate in hotel as I wanted schnitzel so I ordered lamb chops special! We had a group of 9 african women all wearing coats and Bob hats by us who took all the cheesecake! We ordered 2 cheesecakes, waitress came back and said there was only one left, so we took that with another dessert, she then came back and said there was no cheesecake so we cancelled all desserts. 5 minutes later she came back and knelt down and said "I have a plan, I can take a cheesecake off the women" . We declined her offer and thanked her but found it hilarious.
This is Africa.

To top it all, not sure there is any whiskey in our Irish coffees!Lue lisää
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Matkaaja Haha what a funny story! Shame about your planned trips though x
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Matkaaja Vic falls & South Africa
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- 18.9.2023 klo 9.17
- ☁️ 13 °C
- Korkeus: 18 m
- Etelä-Afrikka Province of the Western Cape City of Cape Town Sea Point Graaff’s Pool -33.912856, 18.38921533°54’46” S 18°23’21” E
Päivä 16
Last day and travelling home
18. syyskuuta 2023, Etelä-Afrikka ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C
Leisurely morning and a few hours at Cape Town Airport. Uber took 20 minutes for £6. Cape Town Airport is very good, small but efficient with everything you need.

Lasting impressions are;
People are very friendly,
Service is very good but sometimes slow,
Food is high quality and cheap,
Every clean except Cape Town,
Scenery is varied & impressive,
Safer than you read but still be sensible,
Roads are great and drivers are more polite than UK,
Still a 2 race system with lots of poverty,
Black Africans don't rush they saunter (very sloely) and make mam look like a sprinter,
Definitely worth a visit.
Ps we may have seen a whale from our room while waiting to leave this morning!Lue lisää
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Matkaaja Safe journey Home x
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Vic falls & South Africa

Riversdale to L'Agulhas (most south)

Cape Town via Penquins

Cape Town storm & V&A

Bus tour and no table mountain

The last cheesecake ha ha

Last day and travelling home