Soweto-Johannesburg (running behind a bit 22/4 from New Zealand) 2014-04-15 When you travel in Australia, the further north you travel the warmer (generally speaking) it becomes. Southern Africa, being on about the same latitude as Australia would be the same case. Johannesburg was fairly cool when we arrived so we gathered that travelling south would bring us into colder regions. Wrong. Cape Town was warm to hot. The reason is that Cape Town is build along th...

At times you cover only a short distance, or no distance at all, and still there find that there is a lot to tell. At other times it is the other way around. We needed to be back in Johannesburg by Tuesday night April 15 and were still hanging around Cape town on Saturday morning as we wanted to visit the Table Mountain. The only way to do so was by cable car or walk (as if) The drive to the base was slow as there was a lot of traffic consisting of day trippe...