Blogs from Victoria and Alfred Waterfront, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, Africa - page 2

East London, South Africa was a new port of call for us and we were going to be there for only about 5 hours. So we had to organize something where we could get a good overview of the place quickly. Fortunately Karolyn and Steve knew Rob Prentis who was a teacher in East London and is now a tour operator who also lectures on ships. So we arranged for him to take us on a whirlwind tour of his hometown. Rob loves Africa and has great hopes for its future.First Rob took us to his friend's house on the Nahoon River for a boat ride. The river is one of the largest ones in South Africa. Gary has a nice runabout and we all piled into the boat and cruised out to the mouth of ... read more

My body awoke at about our usual time for the tour breakfast and wouldn’t sleep in, even though I will uncomfortably spend tonight on the flight to Heathrow. We all have different departure times, mine a transfer to the airport at 3:45 pm. Judy had the whole day, so we decided to go the Victoria and Alfred Waterfrontto wander around the shops. It is the same place where we departed for Robben Island a few days ago. We enjoyed the fifteen-minute walk along the sidewalk that constituted the view from my hotel window. The only intimidating part was crossing two roads at the roundabout. Judy was good at judging, so I followed her. We lucked out by finding the Artisan Workshop first. This was in a large former warehouse. Small booths were operated by the artists. ... read more

How to track our journey - a note from Motoaventures. As promised the tracking system we have arranged so that those not on the adventure can follow where we are. When the sat phone is turned on – during the day – it sends a track point every hour to the internet portal. To access the portal go to https://ast.globalalerting.com/Account/LogOn?ReturnUrl=%2f and enter in the following user name: info@motoaventures.com and password: Moto1234. (this should be filled in automatically) The map will appear with a blue square which is the latest report point... read more

Our South African adventure started with a 14 hour flight to Johannesburg from Sydney. We managed to be seated together in a centre row of 4 which made the "up close and personal" not so awkward :) Through customs at J'Burg before our next flight to Cape Town.....by the time we got to our apartment we'd essentially been awake for 26 hours....feeling shattered But excited to be here. Day 1: picked up at 8am by Super (he was Africaan) for a half day city tour including a trip up to Table Mountain. A combination of 3 things=Sunday, beautiful weather and the last day the cable car was running for 5 weeks due to winter maintenance caused the queues to be horrendous...but it was worth the wait!!!! The views were spectacular. Super was a font of information ... read more

Our last day and a very quick update, we will add the whole story and more photos on our return home. We have been busy trying to see all the wonderful things there are to do here and not even done half so will have to come back. The temp has been in the 30's almost evety day and today is the one day tghat has reallt clouded over. We have been on the red and blue bus tours, to Kirstenbosch Gardens, Camps Bay, Hout Bay, Cape Point & the Cape of Good Hope, Table Mountain, Signal Hill, Llandudno & Scarborough, Simon's Town and the penguins. Now very tired and not looking forward to the overnight flight back to cold Heathrow and for one of us work on Monday morning! Thanks to all who have commented ... read more