Street in the Bo-Kaap neighborhood

On the bottom end of the world

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February 22nd 2006
Feb 17-22, Cape Town I dropped of my car in Durban, and I took a flight to Cape Town. CT is very cosmopolitan, very busy, very relaxed nad yes, extremely beautiful. The city is dominated by mountains and surrounded by the ocean on two sides. It has a very different feel for it then the other major cities of the country. Cape Town was the first city established by the Dutch in South Africa, ... 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