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Melkbosstrand to The End

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November 11th 2016
We travelled on to our last site in the van via the West Coast National Park where we were hoping to see a few more animals before the end of our adventure. There were supposed to be tortoises in the park and we hadn't seen any on this journey so far. I scoured the grass where one of the others reported having seen a tortoise but to no avail so we set off down the road further into the park. At ... read more

Africa » South Africa » Western Cape

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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