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    • Overlanding Through Africa
      Day 37

      Truth Coffee

      June 12, 2023 in South Africa ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C

      After leaving the garden, it started to rain, so we headed for Truth, the oldest coffee shop in Cape Town, located in an old factory building and decorated in the steampunk style. It’s a really cool place. We had coffee and lunch. As well as roasting their own coffee beans, they also make their own sourdough bread, so Mark ordered a cheese, tomato, and basil toastie, and I had roasted tomato, garlic, and truffle soup. Both were delicious!Read more

    • Overlanding Through Africa
      Day 37

      District Six Museum

      June 12, 2023 in South Africa ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C

      By the time we’d had lunch, it had stopped raining. We made our way across the road to visit the District Six Museum. This museum came into being in 1994. It is housed in a former Methodist church and serves as a remembrance of the once vibrant multi-racial area that existed here before the citizens were forcibly removed from their homes during apartheid in the 1960s and 1970s. On 11 February 1966, it was declared a white area under the Group Areas Act of 1950, and by 1982, the life of the community was over. More than 60,000 people were forcibly removed to barren outlying areas aptly known as the Cape Flats, and their houses in District Six were flattened by bulldozers.

      It is called District Six because in 1867 the area became the sixth municipal district of Cape Town.

      The museum tells the stories of the individuals and families who lived and worked in District Six. Their lives are remembered through photos, recordings, and tableaux. For me, a highlight of the exhibition was a collection of family recipes embroidered on to cloth so as to be handed down through the generations. We listened to one lady whose family was evicted when she was just sixteen years old. Like thousands of others, she is still fighting to have the land her family home was built on returned to her.

      After our museum visit, we walked back to the hotel, getting there just before it rained again. I spent the rest of the afternoon writing my notes and editing photos. We had a similar dinner to yesterday, and then spent the evening watching the rest of After Life.      Read more

    • madeleine.loves.to.travelSüdafrika 2.0
      Day 20

      Hello again Cape Town

      May 1, 2022 in South Africa ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C

      Frisch geduscht und gut geschlafen - ich fühle mich wie ein neuer Mensch 😅
      Heute war nur Essen, Schlafen und Entspannung angesagt. Nach dem Frühstück gab es eine Massage und von dort aus, ging es direkt auf die Dachterrasse, welche einen herrlichen Ausblick auf Kapstadt, den Tafelberg und Lionshead hat. Heute Nachmittag habe ich dann mein Apartment für die nächsten 2 Wochen bezogen. Die Sprachschule startet morgen um 8 Uhr und dann gibts in den nächsten Tagen wieder sicher mehr zu berichten 😬Read more

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    • Südafrika
      Day 11

      Happy New Year 🎉✨

      January 1 in South Africa ⋅ 🌙 21 °C

      Wir wünschen allen ein frohes neues Jahr! Hoffentlich hattet ihr alle ein schönes Neujahrsfest. Wir waren gestern Abend auf einem Festival, es hieß Alcazar. Es war total cool. Eine schöne Atmosphäre, verschiedene Lichter, bunte Menschen, Glitzersternchen in den Gesichtern und einiges an Gin Tonic. Grade mal ca. 4€ für ein Gin Tonic, kein Preis für ein Longdrink auf einem Festival ✌️da wir ja alle smart sind haben wir uns ein Uber vorbestellt, allerdings kam auch dieses Auto auf dem Rückweg eine halbe Stunde später. Hier ist es an Silvester so unglaublich voll, wie eben in jeder großen Stadt. Gegen 2:30 sind wir dann zurück gefahren und ins Bett gefallen. Heute und gestern Nachmittag haben wir den Tag eigentlich nur am Pool verbracht und die Sonne genossen ☀️, das war schön. Unser Apartmentkomplex hat eine Dachterrasse mit einem schönen Pool 🫶 Den Abend lassen wir heute im überfüllten Campsbay mit Sonnenuntergang ausklingen, wir haben zum Glück ein Restaurant gefunden. Morgen hat übrigens Ines Geburtstag 🎈Read more

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    • TravelerApril 2024
      2
      Day 5

      Barbed Wire & Baboons

      April 5 in South Africa ⋅ 🌬 66 °F

      This first photo visually sums up South Africa: beautiful scenery and high crime rates.

      Check out the pretty lamp in the next picture: it’s surrounded by cctv cameras. Nearly every home has cctv monitoring as well as electric fencing, concertina wire, and signs proclaiming that an “armed response team” will come if the alarm goes off.

      According to our guide, the number of homeless has grown exponentially since the Covid pandemic.

      I’m not sure what the deal is with the hookah place. Is pot legal here? I dunno. It did crack me up to see all the UberEats motorbikes parked beside it, as if ready to deliver when folks get the munchies.

      As our tour bus left Cape Town, the countryside was beautiful. But look closely, every time you see a cluster of homes, there is an electrified fence around it, with cctv monitored perimeters.

      At the outskirts of Simon’s Cove, we saw a street sign warning of baboons. Our guide explained that residents cannot leave their windows open.

      “If they do, the baboons will enter and trash the place.”

      As if to illustrate her point, we saw a few baboons shortly after she told us this. One sat on a wall eating from a bag of cookies. Another drank from a puddle, while a couple more hopped from rooftop to rooftop, trying to find a way inside.      Read more

    • TravelerAfrica
      Day 5

      Cape Town, Day 3

      October 5, 2019 in South Africa ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C

      Another full day! We planned on going up to Table Mountain since it was a beautiful, sunny, clear day without clouds or wind...HOWEVER...when we got half way up the mountain with our UBER driver, it became apparent that half of the tourists in Cape town had the same plan. So we abandoned that and got the driver to take us to the District Six Museum. This was the area of Cape Town that during apartheid was cleared of all Blacks and people of Colour, as they were forcibly moved to other areas of town that were only for their ‘race’. The history was told with many photos, stories and displays, and the lady who talked to us, told us of her own mother’s evacuation against her will which killed her two days later, of a broken heart. We then Ubered to the hospital where Christiaan Barnard performed the first heart transplant and heard the story in a private tour which was extremely interesting and well done. We then went to an Art Gallery which came highly recommended to us, and although the building where it was displayed was amazing, the art was hard for us to appreciate. We also went to a Diamond Museum, run by the Shimanski Company where we had a 45 minute private tour that taught us about diamond mining, history, grading and cutting which was very informative. There was a singing and dance group performing in the square which we also enjoyed. All in all a busy and interesting day!Read more

    • TravelerTravelling Tanja
      Day 245

      Willkommen in Südafrika

      September 29, 2019 in South Africa ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C

      Die letzten acht Wochen in Spanien und Portugal waren toll und das Pilgern auf den Jakobswegen war eine geniale Erfahrung aber nun ist es Zeit für ein paar neue Eindrücke... und die gibt es in Südafrika. 🇿🇦
      Von Lissabon bin ich über Dubai nach Kapstadt geflogen, wo ich gestern Nachmittag angekommen bin.
      Heute habe ich mir noch nichts angeschaut, sondern nur gefaulenzt, denn das Wetter war heute sehr bescheiden. Aber ab morgen geht's dann los, denn ich bekomme Besuch aus Deutschland.😀 Eine Freundin wird zwei Wochen mit mir hier durch Südafrika reisen. 😊      Read more

    • TravelerWeltreise
      Day 23

      Kapstadt

      October 24, 2019 in South Africa ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C

      In Kapstadt blieben wir nur einen Tag, was viel zu kurz für eine so große Stadt ist. Wir wollten dann zumindest auf den Tafelberg gehen, doch als wir am nächsten Morgen aufwachten regnete es und die Wolken waren so tief, dass die gesamte Bergspitze in den Wolken war. Das heißt, wir hätten von der tollen Aussicht nichts mitbekommen. Stattdessen gingen wir in das Viertel Bo-Kaap, welches für seine bunten Häuser bekannt ist. In dieser Gegend waren wirklich alle Häuser bunt, was sehr lustig aussah. Auf der Suche nach einem Taxi durchstreiften wir noch einige Straßen der riesigen Stadt. Dabei stellten wir fest, dass uns Kapstadt deutlich besser gefiel, als Johannesburg oder Durban. Um unser erstes Reiseland abzurunden gingen wir am Abend in ein leckeres Restaurant, wo wir riesige, leckere, vegetarische Burger und sehr gute Pommes bekamen. Am nächsten Morgen startete dann der Stress, mit den Flügen nach Bangkok.Read more

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    • TravelerEast and South Africa 2019-20
      Day 74

      Cape Town - Day 1

      February 6, 2020 in South Africa ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C

      I got up at 7.30am after another hot night in the dorm room with mosquitoes around in the room. I slept quite well considering the heat but still felt very tired when I woke up. I got a shower and had some cereal before packing my things and boarding the truck for our departure time of 9am. We had a relatively short drive into the wealthy suburbs of Cape Town with the huge clouded silhouette of Table Mountain dominating the skyline above the city.
      We arrived at the busy and bustling Ashanti Gardens Lodge hostel. It was a well furnished hostel with a big reception area, bar/restaurant, communal kitchen and small pool. Lots of young travellers were moving around the corridors and sitting in the large patio area outside. We had arrived early after only an hour's drive with unexpectedly light traffic in the city. This meant that we had to wait for our dorm room to be made ready. We used the time by looking through the leaflets of activities and English Brian, Lauren and I booked for two days on the 'hop on and hop off' open top buses which take you on different tours around the city. As we readied to depart for the bus stop where the tour started, our dorm room became available and Monica, Phil, Bro, Lauren, Kristin, English Brian and I all claimed our bunk beds.
      Then English Brian, Lauren and I all headed down through a local park and through city streets until we eventually found the ticket office and bus stop for the 'red route' of the 'hop on and off' bus tour. I sat in the front and plugged in the headphones for the informative audio tour which picked out sites and histories of the city. We headed up towards Table Mountain with Lion's Head mountain behind (so named because it looks remotely like a lion's head with a mane). Black maned lions once lived around the Cape Town area. These are stunning looking mountains with wonderful views over the city and deep blue bay. The bus stopped by where the cable cars take people to the top of the mountain. We then headed through very expensive real estate which is shielded from the strong winds that blow through the mountain corridors. We drove down and along the coastal bay areas with azure blue seas and sandy beaches. The coastal road had lots of fresh fish restaurants. We drove back towards the city, past a stadium built for the football world cup in Soith Africa. We reached the harbour and waterfront area and decided to get off to see a large arts and crafts shopping area and then on into the V & A food market where we chose between the many world food options for lunch. I had an Indian chicken tikka wrap which tasted a bit strange and wasn't my best choice. We then tried to take a harbour tour on a boat which was included for free on our ticket, but was cancelled due to the high winds that day. While we were there we watched lots of cape fur seals on a wooden platform. Their calls and behaviour, where the males vied for space, amused us and Lauren and I started 'communicating' through seal calls to each other which was a bit craziness that kept us entertained until we got back on the bus. The bus then returned through the inner city streets. It was interesting to hear that most of that part of the city had been reclaimed from the sea by the Dutch. We arrived back at the starting point and walked back up to the hostel.
      I was able to get a shower and a short rest before it was time to meet for our group meal at Mama Africas to mark the official end of the journey for many of our fellow travellers. Sadly, Ian didn't make the meal from his hotel which was a shame as I was therefore unable to say goodbye and thank him for his kind and supportive conversation several days earlier. The restaurant was busy with a wonderful band playing African 'fusion' music. I enjoyed it so much that I drunkenly bought their CD at a somewhat exorbitant price. I ate a very enjoyable "catch of the dau" 'Derado'? fish with chips which was very nice indeed. I washed this down with rum mojitos and got quite drunk as a result. After the meal, we headed over to a loud bar where I drank more rum and coke and danced to the music with fellow travellers Lauren, Kristin and Vincent. We decided to head back to the hostel after an hour or so and it was time to say our goodbyes to fellow traveller Vincent as he took his leave. Back at the hostel, I fell asleep quickly thanks the large amount of alcohol in my system.      Read more

    • TravelerZuid-Afrika
      Day 22

      Kaapstad

      September 22, 2019 in South Africa ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C

      Dag 2 in Kaap begon in mineur. Een van de autoruiten van de wagens was ingeslagen, op zoek naar buit. Die was er niet, dus hebben ze letterlijk voor niks de raam ingeslagen. Maar het betekende wel dat ik een halve dag administratie had en alles praktisch in orde moest brengen. Ondertussen ging de rest van de groep de tafelberg op, maar dat moest ik dus missen.
      Na de middag gingen we wel nog samen een stadswandeling doen met een lokale gids, maar die was erg zwak en had niks te vertellen dat we nog niet wisten.
      Het was wel ons laatste avondmaal samen, dus dat hebben we in stijl en met veel gezelligheid gevierd :)      Read more

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