Garden Route to Cape Town April 12th 2010 The last two weeks have been such flourish of activity, it’s going to take me quite some time to get it all out! I am down to about 3.5 weeks left in South Africa and will probably be hanging around PE for most of that time, so I am going to break up our Easter Holiday trip in to about 3 or 4 different blogs and work on them periodically over the next three weeks. I’m just gonna start from t ... read more
Africa » South Africa » Western Cape » Plettenberg Bay 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