Lions Peak

This Is The End!

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May 8th 2007
The CapeJohn and Claire Wood After setting foot in 15 different countries and having over 100 different overnight stops in 11 months we arrived in Cape Town for our final five nights. CT is nice , a fairly small but tidy downtown city area is surrounded by ocean and overshadowed by the massive table mountain. So called b ... 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