Cape Town coast and Kirstenbosch Gardens 12- Tree shot

Cape Town coast and Kirstenbosch Gardens

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July 7th 2010
Today we needed to return our car at noon, but we still had a few things on our list. We figured we could do 2 of those things before then: drive along the Cape Town coast and visit the Kirstenbosch Gardens. Both were on the way to the airport, which is where we were going to return the car prior to flying back to Johannesburg at 6pm. We left the hostel around 8:45am and proceeded to drive alon ... read more

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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