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If you want a true cultural experience of the happiness that many South Africans have for life you must ride a commuter train in the economy section of course.  The commuters were singing as I was traveling to the beach for the day!  How many large metro areas in the United States have singing commuters!

In Feb. and March 2007 I spent about 2 months in Cape Town doing some volunteering at the World Burn Foundation. I was working on weekdays and traveling at the weekends. Here are some of the pictures of the awesome area of the Western Cape - hope you enjoy them! :-)

After all, I did not need an alarm clock at all. In the room next to me, someone was really noisy busy waken up. This was not coincidence, it was Dion. Which is a character by itself, we will see later. Taking a shower and walking relaxed to the Cape Towns University cantine, I discovered I was nevertheless relatively late. No problem, this morning there was no program, we could fill the time by ourselfs. Although most of my fellow travellers did had finished their breakfast and went dow...

Well you all heard about our trials and tribulations to leave the UK and hit Cape Town and we're extremely pleased to report that things have got considerably better since we left. After a very good 8 days of wine tasting, skinny dipping, getting blown off Table Mountain, more drinking and meeting some great people in the hostel we also did a few other things. We went to Robben Island where Nelson Mandela was a prisoner and held in solitary confinement for 18 years. You get taken around th...

So, nun bin ich nach vier wochen arbeit bei den affen wieder zurueck in cape town. Die vier wochen waren schlussendlich richtig gut und ich bereue nicht, dass ich freiwillig gearbeitet habe. Es war sehr interessant einmal in einem voellig anderen bereich zu arbeiten. Trotzdem musste ich feststellen, dass das wohl nichts fuer mich ist, in einem zoo oder so zu arbeiten. Ich bin halt einfach nicht der typ, welcher beim groessten "schiff" gerne draussen arbeitet! Naja, auf jedefall habe ich mich ...

Random stuff from Cape Town and around South Africa, Mozambique etc

We spent many a summer holiday in Knysna as kids and still love visiting every couple of years as it is so beautiful, and a lifetime of exploring won't find all there is to explore.

South Africans call Cape Town "The Mother City" as it was the first place in the country settled by Europeans. The origninal inhabitants were the Khoisan, a group of people living in Southern Africa since the days of the caveman, if not before. Cape Town has a rich history as a sea port and place where cultures from around Africa and the world have mixed for decades, beneath the majestic backdrop of towering Table Mountain. Day 1 I flew from Durban on cheap but inefficient Mang...

On of the babies at the safe house were I was volunteering had severly clubbed feet, so Every friday he would get casts put on and every thurdsay I would take them off. On one fine Friday morning Leanna(a local south african women ) and I were on the way back from the Hospital with "Matti" and his fresh casts. When I saw 5 black BMW's  all surrounding this one Black SUV! with a police escort,  they were rather impresive drivers showing off there skills they were crossing and we...

We headed into stellenbosch with high expectations after speaking to many south african travellers in Namibia and Botswana. Everyone reckoned thath this was the place to be on new years eve, rather than the usually over crowded cape town. Having left Namibia either the 29th and after crossing into SA we stopped in the town of Springbok to change some currency. There didn't appear to be anything notable about the town other than it was about the 1st place to change currency real...

Ah!  Retour à la civilisation!  Ça fait franchement du bien!  C'est con, mais voyager dans des pays sans règles ni lois, et encore moins de code de conduite, et bien ça épuise...  Et des petits détails comme constament se soucier de la nourriture que l'on mange, toujours avoir le trac en allant à la toilette, la difficulté à obtenir quoi que ce soit de froid, incluant nourriture, boisson et douche, et toutes ces petites choses rendent fou à la longue!Mais bon, je...

  This very colorfull area is the home of what are called the Cape-Malay people. It is a very nice area but is no longer safe to walk around by yourself even in the daytime. Either have a guide from the area or view the amazing colors from the backseat of a taxi.  

Lived in Cape Town for a month as part a an exploration program through the University of Washington

I enrolled in a travel and creative photgraphy class three weeks ago

My first time in Africa - from Joburg to Cape Town...by BazBus, haha Stops: Joburg - Nelspruit - Kruger - Durban - Port Elizabeth - Jeffreys Bay - Mossel Bay - Cape Town