Paarl

Trip to Cape Town

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September 25th 2012
Good friends (family) of mine were invited to a wedding in Cape Town in April, they invited me to go with them. We decided that we are not going to fly down to CPT but rather make a road-trip out of it, and so WE DID!!! We left Pretoria on the Wednesday and slept over at Vereeniging where we met our friend who drove us to CPT with his Combi early Thursday morning. We arrived at the house we st ... 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