Western Cape

After our honeymoon 1st part we ventured into South Africa to chill out. In constrast to Namibia Western Cape was lush. Thumbs up for South African mentality...

Table Mountain

File size 83 kB. Choose JPEG or Java Viewer. The number one sight of Cape Town and definitely a geological oddity for Swiss people.

Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town

File size 63 kB. Choose JPEG or Java Viewer. I was always astonished on how far back the history of Dutch settlement in Southern Africa goes. The Castle is not just a rotten military place as I had expected, its loaded with history back to the mid-17th century.

Cape Point

File size 61 kB. Choose JPEG or Java Viewer. A very windy and a very smelly (lots of bird colonies) place subject to the basic elements.

Montagu

File size 50 kB. Choose JPEG or Java Viewer. Montagu is the archetypical (white) Miss Marple-town. It gives you a very quiet, distinct old-times feeling. The crossing is architecturally particularly interesting because it shows the four dominating building styles in the region: Cape-Dutch, late-Victorian, Georgian and an early-Victorian town house (left to right).

Diaz Ship, Mossel Bay

File size 95 kB. Choose JPEG or Java Viewer. A reconstruction of Diaz ship which was navigated from Portugal to Mossel Bay at the 500th anniversary of Diaz' arrival at Mossel Bay. Imagine travelling with this rather small vessel in literally white spots on the earth, far from home.

Boschendal

File size 111 kB. Choose JPEG or Java Viewer. Boschendal is a typical Cape-Dutch manor, with a usual combination of vine-growing, sightseeing and restaurant for survival in modern times.