Blogs from Hermanus, Western Cape, South Africa, Africa - page 5

After another animal-filled safari at url=http://myitchytravelfeet.com/2009/03/09/combining-luxury-with-adventure-at-madikwe-hills-private-game-lodge/ Madikwe Hills , we boarded the small plane that would take us back to Johannesburg and the perils of the Johannesburg Airport. All I can say is, don't let a porter get hold of your luggage and don't trust the agents at the South African Airlines counter. Upon returning to the states, we discovered that our United VISA card had been compromised . The only place we used it - at the South African Air counter to confirm our flight. VISA did a great job of catching the bogus charges, closing our account and issuing new cards. But back to South Africa, Brown and Keene chartered a bus to take the group to the West Cape and our accommoda... read more

Thanks for the news from home - good to read. I cant believe Obama has been elected - excellant news. Anyway on with the blog.... We left Stellenbosch at a reasonable hour and headed in the searing heat to Boschendal. We were overwhelmed by the beauty of the place and enjoyed a good few hours in the house, gardens and wine tasting experiance. I even found Mr Pritchard's visitors log entry for earlier this year!! From then we travelled to Franshoek. Very disappointing comparred to Stellenbosch and to make it worse we got very lost serval times trying to leave the god foresaken town. Eventually we made it on to Hermanus - the Whale Capital. Well after arriving later than planned we headed straight to the bay hoping to catch a glimps of these beautiful animals. ... read more

Him, his mate, and his mate’s mate Having checked out of the hotel nicely bundled up against the weather we emerged to find that today was actually quite warm and sunny. We shed a layer or two of clothing and spent the morning in Hermanus waiting for 2pm when our boat would be leaving the new harbour on a whale watching trip. On our way along the sea front we saw our little mammal friends on the rocks below again. There were three of them this time, and we spent quite a while watching them interact/boss each other around, although we had no ginger biscuits to offer them this time. Jack named them him, his mate and his mate’s mate. We visited the Whale House, which is a small museum, housing a southern right whale skeleton ... read more

Ever onwards to Hermanus We awoke to a still cold cabin, despite the heating being on all night and it was the speediest we’d ever managed to get the kids dressed! After breakfast back at the main building we set of towards Hermanus. The weather on the journey started off cold (only 7 degrees C) and foggy and then brightened up to bright blue skies and around 15 degrees, before then alternating these lovely skies with downpours of rain throughout the following 5-hour journey. The scenery was absolutely spectacular, we’ve never seen such a big stretch of land in one go before. Green hill after green hill lay before us with only the occasional farmhouse showing signs of life and only the one road (that’ll be the one we were on). Driving down this road changed ... read more

This will be my first attempt at writing a blog so here we go!!! I love adventure travels and have experienced many interesting activities but I must truly say that the Hermanus area exceeded my expectations ten fold! We stayed in a small Hotel - Misty Waves Boutique Hotel - what a gem of a place , we where treated like royalty and this is defiantly one of our best choice for accommodation up to date. In the foyer we discovered a brochure with regards to activities to do and one company in particular offered the full deal. Specialized Adventure - the owner a young woman visited us at the hotel and helped us plan our next few days! She was most efficient and extremely helpful and informative. We went Shard Diving, Whale watching, Wine tasting ... read more