Travel Plans

Travel Plans for 2011: South Africa Part Two

As promised, today we continue our research about Cape Town (the latest destination on our travel wish list) with other interesting information about this lovely city and its surroundings – we hope you will find them useful too. Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden A special place that we don’t want to miss is The Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden, which covers 36 hectares, just 13 km away from downtown Cape Town.The garden is easy to find: you can get here by car, going from Cape Town towards Muizenberg and following the signs to Kirstenbosch, or by bus – there are several bus services operating 7 days...

Travel Plans for 2011: South Africa

We recently did some research on possible destinations for our next vacations and the country that attracted our attention was South Africa. Therefore, we decided it should be on our travel wish list and hopefully we will get to visit it sometime during the next year or two.The idea came to us back in 2010, when South Africa, the host of 2010 FIFA World Cup, was on the lips of all football fans. The World Cup has occasioned a considerable increase in the number of tourists from around the world and the famous Vuvuzela became the symbol of the country during this sporting event. Next we had...