Penguins

Four Seasons in One Day

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August 29th 2008
Touchdown in the Mother City Breakfast, packing and checking out was leisurely, and we hit the road with the aid of Berk, who knew how to find our next planned destination, Cape Point. Cape Point is the southernmost tip of the Table Mountain Peninsula - not the southernmost tip of Africa, or even where Indian and African oceans meet (as lots of tour blurb says) - but is where two ocean c ... read more

Africa » South Africa » Western Cape » Cape Town

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After the British seized the Cape of Good Hope area in 1806, many of the Dutch settlers (the Boers) trekked north to found their own republics. The discovery of diamonds (1867) and gold (1886) spurred wealth and immigration and intensified the subjug... ... read more