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On this second blog some more pictures of the trip we made through the Garden Route National Park with its amazing beaches, lakes and mountains.

We managed to take some great pictures on the beaches of Buffalo Bay, Jeffreys Bay and the Wilderness region. The beaches in this part of South Africa are so unspoilt and show a huge contrast with some of the pollution you'll come accross...

A great trip to do is the Garden Route tour. These trips can be booked in Cape Town and include a bus tour through the Garden Route National Park with stops at all the major attractions and lookouts.

The Bazz Bus that drives the Garden Route is a kind of backpackers bus

One of the nice stops is the town of Wilderness, a popular holiday resort with gorgous beaches...

One of the things that keeps surpring in Cape Town is how creative the people are with their limited public transport services. Ok, there are a few buses but sharing a car or a truck is less expensive and it's hot anyway so you might as well hang your head out of the trunk:)

In South Africa these kind of traffic hazards are completely normal and we were probably the weird tourists...

Cape Town is South Africa's second most populated town and located on the tip of the southwestern part of the country.

In Cape Town you'll find a lot of smaller townships like the old black township of Nyanga which is located 25 km south. Nyanga is one of the poorest and dangerous parts of Cape Town and walking through this township will make you realize the enormous gap between...

Cape Verde has some of the finest beaches on Africa's west coast. On the island of Sal the beach stretches for several km all the way up to Santa Maria, the main town centre of the island.

The Cape Verde archipelago is located in front of the coast of Senegal and Mauritania and is divided into two groups of islands, the Barlavento Islands and the Sotavento Islands.

These...