2021-03-15 : Storm River Mouth. Amazing suspension bridge over a beautiful river in a gorgeous landscape..
Gandalf Around The World
We (Christine and Thierry Dupin) are realizing an old dream that since August 31, 2018 has become reality: a world tour in 80 months with Gandalf, our motorhome. An Iveco Daily 4x4 that has already taken us to Tunisia, Morocco, Iceland, Iran, the Emirates and Oman, Wales, Ireland, Senegal, Gambia and North Cape. The departure took place on August 31, 2018 from our village, Illmensee, not far from Lake Constance. Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany.
Montag, 10. Mai 2021
Storm River Mouth, South Africa
Plettenberg Bay, South Africa
2021-03-12 : Plettenberg Bay and the Robberg Reserve. Thousands of Cape Fur Seals on the rocks of the peninsula.
The Route 62 in "Klein Karoo", South Africa
2021-03-08 / 10 : Route 62 and Klein Karoo. One of the most scenic route in South Africa !
Samstag, 6. März 2021
Cape Agulhas, South Africa.
2021-03-06 : Cape Agulhas, the southernmost point of Africa. At the East, the Indian Ocean, At the West, the Atlantic Ocean.
Franschhoek, South Africa
2021-03-05 : Franschhoek, le Coind des Francais. 300 Huguenots fleeing repression in France were brought here by the Dutch at the end of the 17th century to colonize the Cape hinterland. They have developed a wine-making activity there that has endured for generations. There is a very French flair there.
Stellenbosch, South Africa
2021-03-02/03 : Stellenbosch. The sedond established town in South Africa. A young and lively city thanks to its university and its world-renowned wines.
Boulders Beach, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa
2021-03-01 : Boulders Beach and one of only two colonies of African penguins on the continent. Amazing !
Cape of Good Hope, South AFrica
2021-02-28 : Cape of Good Hope. It is not necessary to present this mythical cape !
Capetown, South Africa
2021-02-23 / 27 : Capetown : Bo-Kaap, Waterfront, Table Mountain, Kirstenbosch
Donnerstag, 25. Februar 2021
Paternoster, South Africa
2021-02-20/21 : Paternoster. Seeing again the Atlantic Ocean after 15 months of separation (from Lobito in Angola). Two days in the rocks a few meters from the waves crashing on the granite. We could almost believe we are in Brittany but periwinkles still lack a little too much !! The waters of the Atlantic are cool, the wind too. Even in the heart of the southern summer.
Wolfberg Cracks, Cederberg, South Africa
2021-02-16 : The Wolfberg Cracks. Another hard hike to another extraordinary natural site: a narrow fault 500 m in length to climb to a plateau at an altitude of 1400 m, an Indiana Jones-style setting!
Maltese Cross, Cederberg, South Africa
2021-02-15 : The Maltese Cross in the Cederberg Mountain. A beautiful hike to an extraordinary natural sites: a 20-meter-high Maltese cross-shaped rock that has resisted the destructive forces of erosion for millions of years while all the neighboring rocks have succumbed.
Rock Art Trail, Cederberg, South Africa
2021-02-14 : Sevilla Rock Art Trail, a 5 km trail (round trip) which takes us to 9 cave painting sites of the San (the oldest people in South Africa). These paintings are estimated to be between 500 and 5,000 years old.
Sonntag, 14. Februar 2021
Fraserburg, Great Karoo, South Africa
2021-02-10/11 : 250 million years old animal footprints and fossils hunting in the Great Karoo desert.
Graaff-Reinet, Great Karoo, South Africa
2021-02-05 : The extraordinary dorolite columns of the Valley of Desolation.
Nieu Bethesda, Great Karoo, South Africa
2021-02-05 : Nieu Bethesda and Helen Martin's extraordinary garden.
Cradock and Mountain Zebra National Park, Great Karoo, South Africa
2021-02-01/02 : Market Street in Cradock with the flair of the 19th century. 700 mountain zebras live in the park, one third of the world's population.
Bloemfontein, South-Africa
2021-01-30 : Gandalf in the hometown of J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings)