March 1998: South Africa
A week in Cape Town for a JSC meeting. Zoe and I climbed Table Mountain and, after the meeting, drove east to the Addo Elephant Park. We visited an Ostrich Farm, and did some hiking.
Category: South Africa 1998
A JSC Meeting in Cape Town and then driving east to the Addo Elephant Park and then returning to Cape Town
In Cape Town
The Breakwater Prison where we were staying was close to the Victoria and Alfred Waterfront and we used restaurants there. Apparently the convict inmates had...
Climbing Table Mountain
Table Mountain is just over 1km high (3,558 feet). From the Breakwater Prison we could see the cable car and nicknamed it “Tinkerbelle” from its...
Driving East – De Hoop Sand Dunes
After the meeting we hired a car and, after collecting it, I think we must have had an evening’s drive to the Chapman’s Peak Lookout...
Cango Ostrich Farm
From the sand dunes of De Hoop National Park we headed inland to Oudtshoorn in the region known as the Little Karoo. North of the...
Addo Elephant National Park
Addo Elephant National Park was founded in 1931 when, following a previous Government backed campaign to destroy the local elephant herds, there were only 11...
Returning to Cape Town
Having achieved our aim of seeing elephants at Addo National Park we returned to the coast and stayed overnight at Jeffreys Bay. Famous for surf...
Places we Stayed
I can’t find any record of just where we stayed, and when, but I do remember how pleasant our accommodation was, and at very reasonable...