South Africa is a country that everyone must visit. I want to go back and do lots of the other things that I did not get to see […]
Days 10, 11, 12, & 13 – Kruger National Park
We landed in the very small airport in Skukuza around lunch time. We decided to rent a car, rather than take the free shuttle so that we would […]
Day 9 – A Night in Johannesburg
We did not get to be tourists in Johannesburg. By the time we had landed, we were only a few hours away from everything closing, so we decided […]
Day 6 – Lion Rescue and more Wine Tasting
Holly and Spencer woke up feeling better, but they both thought that drinking wine at 10 am may not be the best way to test their recovery. We […]
Day 5 – Biking in Stellenbosch
Problem day. Holly and Spencer woke up sick and could not go on the bike trip. We decided to meet them at the hotel in Stellenbosch. Samer and […]
Day 4 – District 6, Cooking Class, and Shopping
Today was a weird day. We hired Cape Fusion Tours to take us on a half day trip that culminated in a cooking class at the Eziko Cooking […]
Day 3 – Robben Island and Table Mountain
A few months ago, Samer I decided to listen to Nelson Mandela’s autobiography A Long Walk to Freedom. Neither of us had read it before, so we thought […]
Day 2 – The Cape Peninsula and Jazz
We hired Lynnette Wilms from Exquisite Cape Tours and Hikes to give us a half day tour of the Cape Peninsula. She was very good at describing the […]
Day 1 – Cape Town
We all met in Cape Town around 2PM at the airport and made our way to the our hotel. Holly had found us a hotel called Rouge on […]
Introduction to our trip to South Africa
A year ago we decided that we wanted to go on safari and we thought that South African would be as good a place as any to try […]