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* Hout Bay Township Tour
* Table Mountain & District 6 * Robben Island * Bo Kaap or Cape Malay Quarter * Cape Town! * Citrusdal and The Baths * Orange River Bushcamp at Fiddler’s Creek * Fiddler’s Creek Camp * Hobas & Fish River Canyon * The Dunes & Sarus Guest Farm * Solitaire & Sesriem Camp * Swakopmund * Otjiwarongo Cheetah Camp * Ombinda Country Lodge * Angolan Refugee Camp * Yainguaz Camp Near Gobabis
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June 27, 2002Hout Bay Township TourJust outside Cape Town we visited a squatter’s camp where poor people including immigrants from Zimbabwe and Algeria, who were not allowed to live in Cape Town prior to apartheid,...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on June 27, 2002 08:49 AM
TrackBack | Category: Culture, Excursions, South Africa June 25, 2002Table Mountain & District 6The geographical configuration of the city of Cape Town at the foot of Table Mountain is as beautiful as everyone has said it is. We took the cable car...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on June 25, 2002 08:46 AM
TrackBack | Category: Alternative Transportation, Best Places, Climbs & Walks, History, Hostels & Guesthouses, Music, South Africa June 17, 2002Robben IslandJune 16 to July 13, 2002 Standing bunched shoulder-to-shoulder in the small anteroom of the prison on Robben Island where Mandela and others were political prisoners, our half of...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on June 17, 2002 09:42 AM
TrackBack | Category: Best Places, Boats, Excursions, History, South Africa, Touching Experiences Bo Kaap or Cape Malay QuarterThe next day we take a minibus for 3 rand each (10 rand to a dollar) to look for an apartment. The buses are many and frequent with no schedule-you...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on June 17, 2002 08:36 AM
TrackBack | Category: Best Places, Buses, History, Hostels & Guesthouses, India, South Africa June 16, 2002Cape Town!June 15, 16, 2002 James make an unbelievable maneuver with the truck into the Lions Head Lodge & Backpacker Compound around a corner and in between parked cars on...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on June 16, 2002 08:32 AM
TrackBack | Category: Best Places, Buses, Hostels & Guesthouses, South Africa June 14, 2002Citrusdal and The BathsJune 14, 2002 My birthday The Baths is a health spa about 16 km from Citrusdal in a pretty wooded gorge. It is a long weekend in South Africa;...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on June 14, 2002 08:27 AM
TrackBack | Category: Excursions, Hostels & Guesthouses, Language, South Africa, Touching Experiences June 12, 2002Orange River Bushcamp at Fiddler’s Creekwww.bushwhacked.co.za The facilities are nice-big grassy campsite and there is a lapa (open air shelter) covered with green leaves of a plant with purple flowers within which to eat...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on June 12, 2002 08:24 AM
TrackBack | Category: Food, Language, South Africa Fiddler’s Creek CampJune 12, 2002 To the South African Border In the morning before we leave camp, three guys walk up to our campfire as George is frying bacon; I walk...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on June 12, 2002 08:20 AM
TrackBack | Category: Funniest Experiences, Namibia June 11, 2002Hobas & Fish River CanyonJune 11, 2002 On the way from Serus the topography is incredible--perfectly formed mesas and buttes-almost Utah-like. We stop in the tiny wide spot in the road called Bethanie....Read this update June 10, 2002The Dunes & Sarus Guest FarmJune 10, 2002 After a night camping near Sesriam, everyone else is up at 5:00 to go hiking in the Dunes. No coffee and no "breaky" (breakfast). These are...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on June 10, 2002 08:04 AM
TrackBack | Category: Climbs & Walks, Language, Namibia June 09, 2002Solitaire & Sesriem CampJune 9, 2002 Sesriem literally means "six rawhide strings" The truck ride south to Sesriem Camp was not as cold as we thought it would be. We stopped in...Read this update June 08, 2002SwakopmundJune 6-8, 2002 How are you today mommi? George and James do a pretty good job looking after me-making sure I’m happy so I don’t unglue on this trip...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on June 8, 2002 07:56 AM
TrackBack | Category: Culture, Food, Namibia, Worst Experiences June 05, 2002Otjiwarongo Cheetah CampJune 5, 2002 The next morning James drives us back to Outjo, the small predominantly German/Afrikaner town we had stayed in before and we buy apple strudel and real...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on June 5, 2002 07:48 AM
TrackBack | Category: Excursions, Food, Namibia, Politics June 02, 2002Ombinda Country LodgeSunday June 2, 2002 near Outjo Yesterday the truck broke a spring so we stopped in the Afrikaner town of Outjo to find a mechanic and pick up some...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on June 2, 2002 07:41 AM
TrackBack | Category: Food, Hostels & Guesthouses, Namibia June 01, 2002Angolan Refugee CampJune 2002 So African Intervention in Namibia Namibia used to be part of South Africa and South African incursions into Angola and Namibia continued from 1975 until well into...Read this update Yainguaz Camp Near GobabisJune 1, 2002 Yainguaz Camp near Gobabis, Namibia The countries of Botswana and Namibia are very different geographically from Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia. The topography is flatter even than...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on June 1, 2002 07:29 AM
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