The Waterfront

View over the Waterfront to the spectacular Table Mountain

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CAPE TOWN (11-16 November 2007)

November 11th 2007
Arrived in Cape Town Sunday morning (11 November) and spent my first day with my great Uncle Les who I've only met a couple of times before. He drove me around the centre of Cape Town and showed me where all the tourists head to down at the Waterfront. Cape Town is a busy but beautiful city, sunny but quite windy too. The sight of Table Top mountain looming so large over the city is so much more i ... 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

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