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Mountains and Beaches

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October 24th 2014
Well another hectic week in paradise. We started the week off with lots of good intentions of doing lots of exercise and on Monday morning complete with a picnic of smashed up egg butties we set off to do a 20km walk in Knysna forest. It was called the elephant trail. Named this because there used to be 400 elephants in the forest but now there are only 3 remaining so our chances of bumping into o ... 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