Bap Street

last day in Cape Town..

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February 27th 2007
and its raining!! Well sunday I wnet to Kistenbosch. Quite a taxi ride out of Cape Town. very beautiful. Lots of thigns to see and do, and very interesting even though I am not so green fingered!! A conservatory, a Nelson Mandela plant that took 20 years to make, a smelling garden, a practical planst garden, an aboreum? something or other for trees! The mjusic was African Jazx,, but also quite ... 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