Simon's Town Travel Blogs

In January this year (2007) I was finally able to pack my bags and head for Africa. I spend 6 wonderful weeks down there together with an american friend. South Africa have so much: great people, beautiful nature, wildlife, interesting history, interesting culture.. and the list goes on.

Simons Town, the home of the navy of South Africa. Before we will dump our personal stuff in a backpackers lodge, we went to Boulders. This is a site, little bit to commercial, where you can watch penguins sitting there. Maybe a narrow mind, but these birds were cute for a half hour. When you look …

Start off from 10 weeks in Namibia for a 10-week Expedition. Then, travel around the Southern Africa and Eastern Africa.

2002 undergraduate study abroad trip during my junior year at Pomona College. I spent 4 months living with several families in Botswana, 1 month assisting on a TB surveillance at a refugee camp I was living at, and finally 1 month traveling around neighboring countries, mostly on my own.

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

As we continued through the southern suburbs of Cape Town the houses got bigger and the people on the street paler. This is the richest area in Cape Town and even though apartheid is long gone you'd still be hard pressed to find a black person here. When we reached Simon's Town our (black) guide jo…

Our second to last day we wanted to visit the Cape of Good Hope and find the southern tip of Africa.  Of course along the way we found out the drive would be a little longer than expected, and rather than drive all day just to say we were on the southern tip we stopped at the parks entrance.&n…

Simon’s town was never part of our tour stop, we only made the stop to have coffee before proceeding to Cape Aghulas. I was fascinated by what I saw once we stopped at the tourist shop/ coffee shop by the sea side in Simon’s town. Simon's Town is a maritime naval town and home to the African Ja…

Rondreis van René en Tonnie door Zuid-Afrika, Namibie Botswana en Zambia.

Vroeg in de ochtend vertrekken we naar het zuiden, naar het Kaaps Schiereiland. Van daar uit wandelen we naar Kaap de Goede Hoop. We overnachten in het schilderachtige plaatsje Simonstown, dat bekend staat om de aanwezigheid van een kolonie pinguïns in het nabijgelegen plaatsje Boulders Beach.

Just some pics to remember...

This summer, or winter, depending on which side of the world you're on, I'll be leaving from the summerish Netherlands, to winterish South-Africa. First 4 weeks of volunteering work in a great project, called Masigcine children's home. Than about 3 and a half weeks of traveling with some Italian guy I never met in real life before.