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Wild West: Top 5 Nature & Outdoor Spots in the Western Cape, South Africa

South Africa is known for its huge swaths of untamed wilderness, but most of the attention on big game and outdoor adventure sports focuses on Kruger National Park in the north or Drakensberg in the east. The wilderness of the Western Cape can be easily overlooked in favor of the posh metropolitan glitz of Cape… Read more »

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Walk Cape Town: A Self-Guided Tour of the City Bowl

With the uncertainty of standby travel we never set a firm itinerary for the first day we plan to arrive somewhere, but when non-rev luck is in our favor and our arrival goes as hoped we tend to spend that first day getting our bearings and learning the culture and personality of our destination. Our arrival… Read more »

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Extreme Sports Africa: Abseil Table Mountain

A minor wrench had been thrown in our Cape Town itinerary when we learned our scheduled shark dive would have to be cancelled. Apparently the Great Whites, the seven gill cow sharks and other species all mysteriously vanished from False Bay three weeks prior and had yet to return en masse. We were to patiently await word… Read more »