We stayed in Cape Town for a couple of days, mainly to visit the city and its surroundings but also to plan our further trip from here. So we gave our first rental car, a Hyndai i10 grande, back and rented a bit more off-road capable car, the Ford EcoSport for the next part of […]
Read more "Cape Town: Downtown "On our first morning in Cape Town, we had a splendid view from our breakfast room over the city and onto Table Mountain (on the left), Lion’s Head (the pointy peak in the center) as well as Signal Hill (on the right). To make the most of the view and the great weather that day and because […]
Read more "Cape Town: Table Mountain "We left Stellenbosch and the lovely wine region in the morning from the Stumble Inn hostel en route to Cape Point. Hands up to the staff from the Stumble Inn who were kind enough to let us sleep in a different dorm in the middle of the night because the snoring of the only other […]
Read more "Penguins and Cape Point"So what’s there to do in Stellenbosch? Wine tasting of course! And that is what we did! Although we had our own car, it wouldn’t have made much sense to do a self-drive wine tasting tour as we obviously wouldn’t get very far. Therefore, we wisely chose to visit four wineries with a minibus tour. […]
Read more "In Stellenbosch: Red red wine, you make me feel so fine!"In slightly rainy weather we set out from De Hoop across long and mainly boring country road towards the Southernmost Tip of Africa in L’Agulhas. L’Agulhas is nothing more than a small village and a sign marking the southern end of the African continent and the location where the warm Indian and the cold Atlantic […]
Read more "Past the southernmost point of Africa"Once back at the ocean from in-land Oudtshoorn, we spent an afternoon looking around Mossel Bay and at the beach there. The surroundings of Mossel Bay offer very nice beaches, both with calm waters in protected bays and with waves for surfing. However, we got bored of lying at the beach relatively fast and left […]
Read more "De Hoop’s white dunes"From Wilderness, we took a ride inland and a break from the beach in order to see the ostrich land and caves around Oudtshoorn. One reminder that this is in fact the ostrich capital of the world, beside all the ostrich farms that we saw on the way into town, was a new item in […]
Read more "Oudtshoorn ostrich capital and the Cango cave"We had a relaxed morning in Plettenberg Bay with breakfast at the beach and a short look around town before heading out to Knysna (pronounced Nysna). At Knysna, we spent some time in the touristic town centre and water front as well the retirement-home-like Thesen’s Island. The view from the head’s viewpoint into the Knysna […]
Read more "Beach days at Knysna and Wilderness"After a great night’s sleep in the Storms River Mouth Rest Camp – a camping site in the Tsitsikamma National Park – we prepared out backbacks for the next five days. The Otter Trail is said to be the most beautiful hiking trail in South Africa. Only 12 hikers are allowed on the trail per […]
Read more "Five days of ups and downs: The Otter Trail I"Day 3 – Scott to Oakhurst hut On the third day the hike started very close to the coast again and just like the days before, each hill was directly followed by another valley. Although ever changing after each turn, the only thing that remained constant was the amazing view on the surrounding landscape. Halfway through […]
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