A day on our own walking in Cape Town. We started with a walk through the Company Gardens which were started in 1652 by Dutch settlers to provide fresh produce for shipping on the way to the East. Today it is a beautiful green park in the middle of Cape Town. We passed by the House of Parliament in Cape Town. South Africa has two houses of Parliament - in Cape Town and Pretoria, alternating between the two for several months each year. We visited the Distr...

Today involved a circle tour of the peninsula south of Cape Town. There are actually two points at the south end of the peninsula (which is about 1 ½ hours south of Cape Town). Cape Point is the most southerly point on the peninsula while the Cape of Good Hope is the most southwestern point in Africa. With all of the stops for pictures and viewing, our tour lasted 6 hours. This is a truly spectacular drive. There may be some other great drives in the wo...

Today we start the last leg of our vacation in South Africa --- heading into Cape Town. Other than a photo of an oryx in the West Cape album, the photos for today will appear in a new album - Cape Town. Table Mountain stands out from about 100 km. but gets more and more dramatic as one approaches Cape Town. At about 50 km. beach towns begin to appear, many occupied by retirees and vacation homes. We arrived in Cape Town around 11:00am and began touring th...