An afternoon on the Cape of Good Hope

Category: South Africa

Land of contrasts and incredible beauty. A privileged look at the Western Cape.

An afternoon on the Cape of Good Hope

July 1, 2010

New York, Photoblogs, South Africa

South of Cape Town, all the way down the Cape Peninsula, part of the Table Mountain National Park and next to Cape Point, is the famous Cape of Good Hope, southernmost part of the...

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South African Townships, the Nightmare Within a Dream

June 29, 2010

Photoblogs, Sans armes, ni haine, ni violence, South Africa

In 1994, when Apartheid fell, black South Africans must have seen their hopes soar far beyond barbed-wire fences and absolute repression. Everything was suddenly possible. The...

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Flashback - The Cape Argus Pick n Pay Cycle Tour

June 13, 2010

Schtroumpfissime, South Africa

Well, it would seem many busy years have lapsed since I was last torturing my buttocks on a borrowed mountain bike, trying hard to keep up with my father-in-law Henri and to...

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Cartwheels over Lesotho, Part 8 - Sleeping under the Southern Cross

June 5, 2010

Lesotho Trip, On the road

I must apologize to those of you depending on the forthcoming installments of this story to get your, err, daily dose of coffee and relaxation. A hectic work schedule has been...

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Cartwheels over Lesotho, Part 7 - Stalking the Mountain Zebra

May 25, 2010

Fauna, Lesotho Trip, Stories

Out of Rhodes by mid-morning, we drove lazily through patchy fields, their freshly plowed soil dark as coal and contrasting strongly with lush green vegetation all around. In...

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Cartwheels over Lesotho, Part 6 - Flash Flood on the Road to Rhodes

May 17, 2010

Lesotho Trip, Stories

My mosquito bites soothed and Himeville left behind, we drove southwestwards, keeping the dark Drakensberg walls to our right, through rolling hills and immense fields. This was...

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