View of Cape Town

From the ferry heading to Robben Island

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August 13th 2008
We've been on the road for the last week, so it's been a bit difficult to update (the backpacker hostels we've stayed at as we've driven through South Africa have been good, but the internet at the hostels wasn't fast enough for our needs). What else to say about South Africa except that what we have seen has been beautiful. Most of the Western Cape region that we've covered has seemed very ... 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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