Cape Town: Framing Table Mountain Adventures

Cape Town: Climbing Table Mountain

Table Mountain is omnipresent in Cape Town. You cannot wander anywhere within the Mother City without this gentle giant looming over or dominating the horizon. An essential part of every traveler’s visit to the city logically includes a trip to the top of the Table. Nowadays this is rather easy, you simply buy yourself a retour ticket on the Table Cable Car and off you go. But hey, where is the adventure in that? Wouldn’t it be way cooler if you could say you actually hiked up that monster. Do you want to have the feeling you really deserved that breathtaking sunset? Then by all means, read on! In this post I elaborate on how we conquered the Mountain and put some wine on the Table.

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Cape Town: Muizenberg Beach Cabins Adventures

Cape Town Roadtrip: 10 things to do around town

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You do not have to pay an entrance fee to see penguins: if you head to the beach right from the parking spot in the center of town, you will most likely stumble onto some already

Cape Town is the most popular city for tourist in South Africa. The reasons for this are many. Although there is no denial the city itself has a lot to offer for all types of travelers, the area around it is almost as diverse and beautiful as the city’s population. Beautiful nature around the Capes, waddling penguins in Simon’s Town and breathtaking scenic routes along 2 oceans in one day. This and a lot more can be discovered around Town. Find out which 10 sites you cannot miss while roaming around South Africa’s Mother City.

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Sani Pass: The green sides of the Drakensberg mountains Adventures

Sani Pass: Hiking the Lesotho Plateau

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With the view gone, we were barely driving more than 30 km/h and we still had a long way to go. We made our way through probably breathtaking landscape that we will never remember, making our way to Sani Pass.

The first stop of our South African Roadtrip was The Drakensberg National Park. That translates basically to Dragon’s Mountain, and yes it was as epic as it sounds. The whole area is amazing to discover but we only had two weeks to cruise through the country. So we picked Sani Pass as our base to explore the amazing nature of Drakensberg. Sani Pass is exactly what it sounds like: a pass that winds up the mountains. It goes from the small village of Underberg to the border with Lesotho. Find out in this post where to stay and what to do here. So you can make this an epic part of your African adventure.

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Road Trip through South Africa Adventures

Road Trip through South Africa

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There is so much to see and do here we could have easily spent the entire two weeks here and never gotten bored. So much culture, history and nature to enjoy around here

In November 2016 me and 3 friends rented car and did a Road Trip through South Africa from Johannesburg all the way to Cape Town. The journey was amazing and we were all fascinated by this beautiful country. In this post I will share our itinerary, travel times and general tips and tricks we learned while driving through this country. You can use this information to plan your own trip. In other post I will share more details about each main destination in our itinerary.

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Aswan: Nefertiti Temple Adventures

Aswan: Life around the Dam

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The tourist information stand was closed and we ended up getting lured into a random hotel waiting for a guide to make us an offer

Everyone has heard of Luxor and it’s temples or of Giza and It’s pyramids. However when people think of Aswan they think of the dam. Although the official name is Nasser Dam, after the President under whose rule the dam was built. Nevertheless people did often hear about Philae Temple. Likewise I think anyone that knows anything about Egypt will confirm they heard about Abu Simbel. To admire those wonderful sights the perfect base camp is Aswan. Trips to these are often part of any group travel that stops in Aswan. However arranging all of it yourself as an independent traveller is not always as easy as stepping on a bus. Find out in this post how we handled it.

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