Cape Town from table mountain

The Big City

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August 22nd 2009
The next day we started our final leg of the trip which was supposed to be a 45 minute drive from Stellenbosch to Cape Town. About 5 minutes after we left our last hostel a spring in one of the tires broke and we all had to get out of the truck on the side of the road and sit in the rain for almost 3 hours while the truck was fixed. We did finally make it to Cape Town by the late afternoon. F ... 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