Tag: nature

Cape Town Beach Tour

Though most of our travel days are carefully planned, I try to leave a day or two open for spontaneous activities. As we have nothing scheduled post our Paragliding adventure, we hop on the Hop On Hop Off Bus for a self-guided Cape Town Beach Tour. Hout Bay During our tours earlier in the week,…
Visiting Cape Point-Cape of Good Hope-South Africa

We’re not budget travelers per se, but we do travel with a budget. Though we aren’t the biggest fans of large group, bus tours, the City Sightseeing, Cape Point and Penguin Day Tour, allowed us to see Cape Point within our budget. It seemed like a good idea to do the budget version of this…
Visiting Kirstenbosch Garden-Cape Town

The weather in Cape Town, is fascinating. It’s not unusual for the weather to be one way on one side of the mountain and completely opposite on the other. We finish our jazz brunch at Harvey’s, on a patio flooded with sunshine, but as our Hop on Hop Off Bus winds its way around Table…
Sunset on Table Mountain-Cape Town

After receiving the text that our paraglide needed to be rescheduled, due to weather, we scrambled to rearrange our plans for the week. What activity could we fit in on a Friday, late afternoon/evening? A visit to Table Mountain seemed the best choice. With stunning views in every direction, the citizens of Cape Town have…
Rainbows and Moonbows-Helicopter Tour and Lunar Tour-Victoria Falls

Though our day exploring Victoria Falls was amazing, I had one regret. Pre-trip, as I scrolled through Instagram photos of the falls, I saw a lot of fabulous rainbow pics. Alas, on our Victoria Falls day, there was not a single rainbow in sight. Victoria Falls-Helicopter Tour I was a tiny bit nervous as we…
Visiting Victoria Falls-Zambia Side

The relationship between the mind and body is interesting. As I stared up at the stairs on the Zambia side of Victoria Falls, looming before me, by mind said, they are just steps. Easy peasy. You just walk up them. No big deal. I started my upward climb, but around step ten, the pressure in the…
Visiting Victoria Falls-Zimbabwe Side

We arrived to the Zimbabwe side of Victoria Falls bright and early. If you are staying in the town of Victoria Falls, you can walk to the visitor’s entrance from most accommodations. If like us, you end up staying outside of the town, almost all of the hotels have complimentary shuttles that drop you off…
Chobe National Park-Botswana

The line looks endless as we queue up at the border. “Here, hand me your passports,” says one of our transport staff. We hand them over, and she disappears for a brief time. Reappearing, she hands back our passports, freshly stamped. “Okay, let’s go, follow me,” she instructs, and without fuss, we are in the…
A’Zambezi River Lodge-Victoria Falls-Zimbabwe

Shannon settles down for a much needed post-flight nap, but I’m too excited. I am in Africa, and I want to see it all, RIGHT NOW. I spot a cluster of chairs placed at the edge of the river. I take a seat. Soon a troop of monkeys come romping in my direction. They take…