South Africa Adventures

South Africa After a very long flight from Seattle January 2005, we arrived in Cape Town, South Africa for a six-night stay and tours before we headed to our one week photo safari at the Zulu Nyala Game Lodge. We began our exploration of Cape Town with a city tour that took us to the major tourist attractions. We were at the Castle of Good Hope for the Key Ceremony and then visited the District 6 Museum that displayed how the apartheid government forcefully evicted 50,000 people, some of whose families had been there for five generations and relocated them to segregated townships. We toured the colorful Bo-Kaap area where Cape Muslims lived and bargained at the nearby Greenmarket Square for carvings, jewelry, and weavings from all over Africa.

The remainder of our tour took us to Signal Hill, Table Mountain, Camps Bay, Victoria & Alfred Waterfront, Houses of Parliament, Slave Lodge, and the Grand Parade and City Hall where Nelson Mandela addressed the people after his release after 27 years of imprisonment February 1990.

We sailed to Robben Island to see where Nelson Mandela and other political prisoners were incarcerated and were given a tour by one of the former political prisoners who described his treatment there as if it were yesterday. Our final tour was of the Langa Township where we visited some of the families homes, drank beer at a sheeban, were offered cures from a medicine man, and sang songs at a crèche or daycare facility with the preschoolers.

We then flew to Durban where we rented a car and drove about 3 hours to the KwaZulu-Natal province and the Zulu Nyala Game Lodge which was located on a private game reserve where the movie, I Dream of Africa, staring Kim Bassinger was filmed.

For a week we went out with our guide in an open Land Rover to see the game in its natural setting both in the morning and afternoon. We saw elephants, cape buffalo, giraffes, hippos, zebras, nyalas, kudas, crocodiles, wart hogs, wildebeests, and other game and an abundance of birds, small lizards, and snakes. We also did a game walk with our guide who was armed with a rifle as we tracked and found a rhinoceros.

We ended our trip by visiting a Zulu village and their vigorous dancing and singing entertained us.

This video is 56 minutes long. Rick Hunt filmed it January 2005. For more travel pictures go to www.huntforgold.homestead.com.

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