Category: World Trip 2006
An epic 153-day world trip visiting twenty-four countries – South Africa; Swaziland; France; England; Belgium; Holland; Germany; Czech Republic; Austria; Switzerland; Italy; Vatican; Monaco; Spain; Finland; Russia; Belarussia; Lithuania; Latvia; Estonia; Canada; USA; Hong Kong; China I traveled between 29 March 2006 and 28 August 2006.
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Saturday 22 April 2006 Highlights: Visiting Robben Island, our guides personal stories and insight, tasty Springbok Today marked the 2nd last day in South Africa and the first since the tour ended. I ended up going to Robben Island during the day with my new friend from Belgium Inge. The ride over was very…
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Friday 21 April 2006 Highlights: Crime in Cape Town, Final dinner, the amazing Karoo Lamb We finished the tour with some wine tasting, I got extras from my table but the other group’ seemed very happy with the offerings 🙂 After the tour had officially ended we arranged for one final dinner together and I…
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Thursday 20 April 2006 Highlights: Hout Bay, African Penguins, Table Top Mountain On our last full day together we headed off to Hout Bay and ended up walking up to a lighthouse that was so high it didn’t really save many ships (I think 20 odd crashed nearby). Jacko & Marjia both run down…
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Wednesday 19 April 2006 Highlights: Sand Dune fun, Cape Point (meeting point for Indian & Atlantic Oceans) We started the day with lots of fun on the sand dunes in De Hoop Nature Reserve. This only proved that some of us are still big kids. I even run down the dunes at one…
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Tuesday 18 April 2006 Highlights: Exploring Knysna Bay by boat So people had to recover from their drinking sessions last night, we finished off last night designing our tour shirts, which we picked up later in the day (very good if I do say so myself). We again visited the town of Knysna but this…
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Monday 17 April 2006 Highlights: I did a crazy Bungee Jump!!! Well today I proved I could jump to my death by leaping (or falling) from a bridge 216 metres of the ground. On a very wet day we headed out for a chance to jump. Chickening out we all thought it was…
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Sunday 16 April 2006 Highlights: Graaff-Reinet Town Visit, the magnificent Outeniqua Mountains Today we set off for Knysna. Our first stopped off at Graaff-Reinet to see a local Africana Museum. Inge & Marjia both commented on how ugly the women appeared to be in the photos. Graaff-Reinet is one of the oldest town…
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Saturday 15 April 2006 Highlights: Two hour hike in Karoo At our Karoo farm stay they have lots of the wildlife roaming around with very few fences. We then we went on a brief 2 hour hike around the Karoo farm. The landscape is stunning; it’s hard to believe that it has snowed in…
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Friday 14 April 2006. Highlights: Helen Martins Owl House We had a very long drive to Karoo today but that meant a chance to see the amazing landscape. Most notable event today was visiting the “Owl House”. Helen Martins created these figures in her house after living a very lonely life, kind of creepy…
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Thursday 13 April 2006 Highlights: Bushman paintings Walking most of the way to our truck (the 4X4 picked us up near the end) was probably a good way to recover from the hike from yesterday. The major thing today was seeing Bushman paintings at Ladyband and putting some of our group in jail at the…
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